Keith and Jess Calder are producing via their Snoot Entertainment, along with Bruna Papandrea and her Made Up Stories banner.

Production is currently underway in Sydney, with a investment from Screen Australia in association with the Australian government's Create NSW. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales for Little Monsters.

Nyong'o will next be seen reprising her role of Maz Kanata in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and is set for Ryan Coogler's Black Panther movie, out in February.

Gad can currently be seen in the biopic Marshall and will appear alongside Daisy Ridley and Judi Dench in the remake of Murder on the Orient Express.

Nyong'o is repped by CAA and Del Shaw. Gad is repped by WME, Lighthouse and Ziffren Brittenham.