The film is simultaneously the seventh and generally the first installment (since 2012's Happy Tree Friends: The Last Bowl) in the Happy Tree Friends film series, and the spiritual parallel follow-up to the series. Navarro, Montijo and Ankrum co-produce the film alongside Melissa Cobb, Akiva Goldsman and Robert Ogden Barnum. MacLeod (in his two theatrical feature directional debuts) from a screenplay by both Ken Pontac and the writing tem of Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo, who previously wrote the 2022 Sony Pictures Animation film Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, originally released by Amazon Studios. The film is directed by David Feiss and co-directed by Steven R. Happy Tree Friends: The Movie is an upcoming 2023 Chinese-American animated black comedy action-adventure feature film based on headline adult bloody violent animated black comedy web series created by Kenn Navarro, Rhode Montijo and Aubrey Ankrum.
