Netflix will premiere
Plankton: The Movie, a brand new musical comedy movie set in the
SpongeBob SquarePants universe, globally on Friday, March 7, 2025!
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“Plankton’s world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted,” a logline for the film reads.
Plankton: The Movie was announced during the streamer’s Next on Netflix Animation presentation for press in June 2024.
Plankton: The Movie is directed by Dave Needham with Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller serving as executive producers. The story is by Plankton voice-actor Mr. Lawrence who also wrote the screenplay alongside Kaz and Chris Viscardi. The movie is based on the original Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, which was created by Stephen Hillenburg.
The movie will star original SpongeBob SquarePants cast members reprise their respective roles: Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Jill Talley as Karen, Tom Kenny as SpongeBob, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, and Rodger Bumpass as Squidward.
The film will also feature a score by: Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and original songs by Bret McKenzie, Linda Perry, Mark Mothersbaugh & Bob Mothersbaugh. Karyn Rachtman and Otis Ratchman serve as music supervisors on the movie.
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Plankton: The Movie – 2025
Plankton’s world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted.
- Director: Dave Needham
- Executive producers: Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller
- Story by: Mr. Lawrence
- Screenplay by: Mr. Lawrence & Kaz and Mr. Lawrence & Chris Viscardi. Based on the series SpongeBob SquarePants created by Stephen Hillenburg.
- Voice cast: Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass
- Music by: Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
- Music supervisors: Karyn Rachtman, Otis Ratchman
- Original songs by: Bret McKenzie, Linda Perry, Mark Mothersbaugh & Bob Mothersbaugh
- Watch at: https://www.netflix.com/title/81221337
This is the second
SpongeBob project arriving on Netflix following last August's
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie. When all the denizens of Bikini Bottom are suddenly scooped from the ocean, it’s up to SpongeBob and Sandy to travel to Texas and save their home from a villainous plot. The movie spent three weeks in the Netflix top 10s, picking up 47M hours watched, which equates to 32.4M views.
In 2019, Nickelodeon and Netflix
struck a deal to bring new Nickelodeon projects exclusively to Netflix. Around the time of that deal, The
New York Times was the first to mention that
SpongeBob would be Netflix-bound. In their report, they referred to a Squidward musical, and although we’ve not seen that come to fruition specifically, we have gotten two
SpongeBob SquarePants movie spin-offs.
Originally published: January 18, 2025.
