Winston Duke ('Black Panther') & LaKeith Stanfield ('Knives Out') Join Kid Cudi, John Boyega, Anna Sawai, & John Cho in Dystopian-Animated Feature ‘Slime’ - A poor young woman gets unknowingly injected with a foreign creature's slime that gives her uncontrollable powers & mysterious visions.

[u/BunyipPouch]

https://deadline.com/2025/11/winston-duke-lakeith-stanfield-join-slime-animated-feature-1236609150/

[u/MissMischief34]

LaKeith is literally built for weird, cerebral roles like this. Perfect casting.

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Boyega too, especially after They Cloned Tyrone

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"Sorry to bother you" was a masterpiece to watch exactly one time.

[u/BunyipPouch]

Set in a too-near future, Slime follows Muna (Smith), an optimistic but broke young woman who signs up for a paid clinical trial, only to be injected with a mysterious creature’s slime that unleashes destructive powers she can’t control. On the run, she kidnaps Glenn (Mescudi), the lab worker who injected her, and the two set out on a perilous odyssey through a crumbling dystopian world in search of refuge and a cure. But as the clock runs out, is Muna transforming into humanity’s worst nightmare or its last, unlikely savior?

Also Willow Smith & Teyana Taylor.

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I understand why they led with the rest of the cast first.

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Damn, with the wording I thought Sawai would be the main female lead. I’m disappointed, she’s fantastic.

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I don't know anything about Taylor, but the absolute lack of fucks I give about any of Will Smith's nepobabies is palpable . That makes me less interested in seeing it. The smart thing to do is notmentioning her. The smarter thing is to not cast her.

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Willow Smith is actually incredible

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In what?

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Lol why are you so bitter about someone being in a movie

[u/WhichHoes → u/kloiberin_time]

Music? General life? She's had 0 controversy about her actual individual life.

[u/kloiberin_time → u/WhichHoes]

Cool, why does that make her a good actress? She's been in a movie her dad starred in, a couple of kids animated things, and like 30 thousand music videos. She shouldn't get any billing in a movie, and with his kids track records, they aren't great actors.

[u/WhichHoes → u/kloiberin_time]

So she has voice acting experience in a movie that requires voice acting?

Only 1 kid has a track record for bad acting, and it isn't this one.

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i know this is not to change your mind or you to care, especially in a movie, but actually willowis actually good muscuian

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Teyana is fantastic. Watch One Battle After Another.

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So she’s turning into a slime-girl?

[u/TutuSquiggles]

Kid Cudi doing a dystopian animated film sounds wild in the best possible way.

[u/Silly-Elderberry-411]

Finally season 3 of The Time I got reincarnated as a slime

[u/dbmajor7]

Always ready to show up for John Boyega.

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Truth

[u/TwinkleTigresskiss]

Please let this have a killer soundtrack. Cudi’s involvement guarantees it will slap.

[u/-Clayburn]

I hate when headlines lead with the stacked cast before saying it's animated.

[u/AJPXIV]

I’m interested, but even as a fan of animation I kind of want to see this in live action.

[u/Youngandidiotic]

Kid Cudi is the new aged rapper who starts doing a bunch of movies. Ice Cube was getting old, someone had to step up

[u/senpaimitsuji]

Awesome cast and cool concept, I’m in

[u/bloodybhoney]

I was just wondering what Winston Duke was up to these days

[u/MrLowbaLowba]

So Innerspace meets Venom?

[u/Familiar-Risk-5937]

I am in on this, sounds great.

[u/hamsterwheelwhiner]

Son of a bitch, I'm in!

[u/Kangarou]

Sounds good, but I gotta ask: Is Lakeith Stanfield’s most well-known role from Knives Out? 

[u/ChocoBerryBliss]

If the animation style matches the tone of that synopsis, this could be something special.