Animated film penned by Deborah Frances-White.

James Acaster has joined the cast of an animated musical movie created by the Guilty Feminist’s Deborah Frances-White.

Bad Faries revolves around a subversive gang of fairies in contemporary London as they shake up their magical world.

Acaster joins the previously announced leads, Cynthia Erivo and Ncuti Gatwa, and plays a character called Stickers.

Director Megan Nicole Dong and co-director Olivier Staphylas announced Acaster's involvement at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France today.

Also joining the cast are Serrana Su-Ling Bliss, whose credits include Enola Holmes 2 and Belfast as well as West End roles, and Dee Bradley Baker, an established voice actor whose credits include playing Klaus the fish on American Dad!

Frances-White, above, is writing the script with Zoe Tomalin, a regular in the writers’ room of shows such as Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The News Quiz. She is also a former recipient of the prestigious David Nobbs Memorial Comedy Writing Award.

It was previously announced that Six: The Musical creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are writing the original songs, with Isabella Summers – the ‘Machine’ in Florence + The Machine – writing the music.

Animated by London-based Locksmith Animation, Bad Fairies is due for release by Warner Bros on May 21, 2027.

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Published: 22 Jun 2026