Lucky (2019 film)

Lucky is a made-for-television animated film produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. An original Nickelodeon film, it features the voices of Mark Hamill, Kira Kosarin, Ron Funches, Flula Borg, and Gunnar Sizemore. The film follows an unlucky leprechaun who goes on a quest with his three best friends, Shannon, Sammy, and Reggie, to retrieve the pot of gold stolen from his family in order to restore their luck.

It premiered on Nickelodeon on March 8, 2019.^[1][2]

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Hap McSweeney, an accident-prone leprechaun recruits the help of his best friends for an adventure to retrieve his family's stolen pot of gold from Harry Houlihan (Mark Hamill), "the luckiest man in the land" in order to restore peaceful luck to his family.^{[citation needed]}

• Gunnar Sizemore as Hap McSweeney^{[citation needed]}
• Kira Kosarin as Shannon^{[citation needed]}
• Ron Funches as Sammy^{[citation needed]}
• Flula Borg as Reggie^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Hamill as Harry Houlihan^{[citation needed]}
• Piotr Michael as the narrator^{[citation needed]}

Director Casey Leonard had no prior experience in working on computer animation and films, but joined the production after co-writer David Steinberg presented him with the film's original draft, to which he "fell in love with [...the] story". He summed the film as a mix of "comedy[...] heist, and[...] all action." "It’s really fun! At its core, Lucky is about friendship. All the luck in the world’s got nothing on love," said Leonard. He also mentioned that the film was "challenging" and "exciting". The film took about 14 months to develop.^[3]

Production services included storyboarding and rigging at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, with 30 crew members involved.^[3] Animation services were done at Bardel Entertainment for four months, with 25 animators involved.^[4][3]

• Lucky at IMDb