Surf’s Up movie is being adapted as a kids’ series

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https://deadline.com/2025/09/surfs-u...ns-1236555492/

The 2007 Oscar-nominated animated 2007 mockumentary parodying surf documentaries from Ash Brannon and Chris Buck is being adapted for TV with a show featuring 11-minute episodes targeting kids ages 6 to 9. Shia LeBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder and James Woods starred in the original movie. The Surf’s Up: The Series “will follow an over-confident teen penguin named Flip, who teams a zany bunch of young surfers in his attempt to become a surf legend,” per Deadline. “Things go spectacularly wrong and the wipeouts are spectacular, so they instead they build their own surf community on Pen Gu Island. Characters from the movie such as Cody, Big Z and Chicken Joe will return.”