Last year party-starting local ensemble Five Alarm Funk released ABANDONEARTH, a concept album about our planet’s destruction at the hands of a giant robot. Now the group has teamed with Vancouver animation studio Atomic Cartoons and plans to turn the record into a feature-length movie.

rummer-vocalist Tayo Branston approached Atomic with the idea when Five Alarm Funk performed at one of the company’s staff events. The firm agreed to help adapt the album into what Branston calls a “funk opera” using a hybrid of live action and animation.

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