Nickelodeon’s ‘Monster High’ Movie Sets Cast as Production Begins
Nickelodeon is teaming up with Mattel for its latest spooky fare as they announced production on a live-action television movie musical based on the Monster High franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures.
The full feature-length movie is set to begin filming this month in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is expected to debut on Nickelodeon in 2022. Tentatively titled Monster High, the cast includes Miia Harris as Clawdeen Wolf, Ceci Balagot as Frankie Stein, Nayah Damasen as Draculaura, Case Walker as Deuce Gorgon, Kyle Selig as Mr. Komos, and Marci T. House as Headmistress as Bloodgood.
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Other stars include Scotch Ellis Loring, Steve Valentine, Jy Prishkulnik, Lina Lecompte, Justin Derickson, Lilah Fitzgerald, Nasiv Sall, and more fan-favorite characters from the Monster High universe.
Monster High follows Clawdeen Wolf who was born half human and half werewolf as she arrives at her new school. Making friends with classmates Frankie Stein and Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf begins to feel as though she’s found the place where she truly fits in. The only catch? She’s keeping her human half a secret.
When a plan to destroy Monster High is uncovered, Clawdeen must embrace her monster heart in order to find a way to save the day. Along with this live-action movie, an animated series based off the franchise is slated to premiere on Nickelodeon next year. Both titles are part of the growing slate of Mattel Television content coming to the children’s network.
Current series and specials under the banner include content based on Barbie, Masters of the Universe, Thomas & Friends, Polly Pocket, and Firearm Sam. Meanwhile, Monster High was first introduced in 2010 and has since garnered a global fanbase that embraces its message of inclusivity.
Don’t miss the excitement, keep an eye out for details on the upcoming Monster High film and series.
Monster High, Movie Premiere, TBA 2022, Nickelodeon
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Why did they make clawdeen white?
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I looked up the actor for her for the movie and she isn’t gonna be white
So thank god she isn’t whitewashed
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Why in 2021 are people still white washing black characters?🤨🤨🤨
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sick and nasty for this. "We stand with the black community against the system " til its time to cast an unambiguous dark skin black girl as a lead in a movie that was intended for them, y'all are sad. These companies pretend to care about white supremacy so they aren't deemed as racist but perpetuate it by their castings. The REAL Clawdeen fails the paper bag test bye.👁👄👁
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doesnt matter if the person isnt white...Clawdeen is BLACK not mixed, not anything else...BLACK GIRL!
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I remember when I was a toddler and asking myself “what if there was a live action monster high”? My dreams are ruined
It’s gonna be so bad
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Why is clawdeen so light she is BLACK. I was so excited for this but I'm not even going to watch it anymore if my favorite character is whitewash
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Everything's wrong with this. Clawdeen is mixed race, for whatever reason is the main character (when they could had have Frankie or the three girls like main characters, like in the original story), a half monster and have Jackson/Holt's character arc. They changed Draculaura's ethnicity (she's one of the only characters in the original that is clearly white) when they could have made Frankie the ethnicity they wanted as she's ambiguous. Mr. Komos isn't even a real character. Why making a new teacher when they had several cool ones in the original? And the plot of the movie seems like the same of Ghouls Rule, where humans want to destroy the school.
I was really hoping for a good comeback but the movie isn't even out yet and Nickelodeon is screwing up.
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She is played by a person of color. Check IMDB
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As a teen I always thought it would be so cool to do a live action monster High film but now that it’s happening as an adult I’m not so sure. The casting is off already and the story has been changed and it sounds similar to ghouls rule. Also Monster High doesn’t have humans in it apart from Jackson. Since when was Clawdeen half Wolf half human she’s not Cerise Hood for EAH. I mean I guess the message they are gonna try and get across is nice. But why have they changed the character’s Ethnicity’s and Race. Don’t know how I feel about this film now.
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There is literally gray wolves and Ethiopian wolves in Africa, research please. And regardless of where anybody comes from that doesn't assign them to a race. I am Hispanic but my race is Black, Clawdeen may be Italian but she can still be black, because there are black Italians as well as black Hispanics, and so on. I am also Native American, and there are, and were Blacks that are Indigenous to America before the Europeans took over. This is just reminding me of the many misconceptions people have about Ethnicity, race, culture, and geologic location background. That's like saying "Oh this person can't be Asian because the character is American," when Asian Americans do exist and American is not a race, just like Italian isn't a race. And as I said if Clawdeen is Italian that's jawsome! but why couldn't she be black and Italian? She can have Italian culture while still being black.
The reason why many people are upset at this is because regardless of her race (she's a monster anyway), she was a great representation for many black girls and boys around the world. Many Blacks saw themselves as Clawdeen, every little black kid saw Clawdeen as black and as a great role-model because black females aren't portrayed in a good light all the time in the Cartoon media, or in the Media period. I hope I helped you understand a little bit more without going overboard.
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I swear
All the monster high movie reboots is always set on ONE of the three
That’s not the point of monster high, the original ones were based on all the characters not just set on “half human half this” or what not
Humans aren’t even important in monster high
Interesting picks on the cast.......
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It is a stupid film. I just watched for the chicks
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There are actually
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Still white washing racist
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Racists are everywhere
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most of the comments about Clawdeen's skin sounds racist I do not like that
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it look's good but Draculaura as a sorcerer I don't know🤨 but I do like the idea😍
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She has a new york accent. she’s definitely black. her designers said she’s black coded.
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also I don’t think clawdeen is the only issue. the casting is really strange on this whole thing. it’s gonna be a disaster.
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shes lightskinned… clawdeen is brownskin in the animated movies. shes whitewashed
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THANK YOU, idk where this guy thought this stuff was based on real life animals good god they literally have confirmed clawdeen to be black anyway
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Yeah it’s seriously gonna be like ghouls rule......
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Like make up a new plot Nickelodeon
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The actor isn’t white bruh also she don’t gotta be super dark to be clawdeen , at least the actor isn’t albino white
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The actor for her isn’t white tho
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yeah but the actor is lightskin and clawdeen isn’t so they made her skin lighter = whitewashed
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I think people are funny seems to me from comments that the monsters can be any race like black Italian Mafia for werewolves someone wrote. That's cool and makes sense you can be a white Asian or even white African, black Russian whichever that's life were your born and the race blood you have is something that can't be controlled. I for one pictured clawdeen as a black actress but she is covered in fur so no one really knows since she was always in were wolf form. To get to the point after reading the comments clawdeen being white makes Mattel racist so then is marvel racist for making nick fury black or Mary Jane black or triss from the Witcher she is not white so it must be racist as well according to the logic from most comments it's only racist if someone is changed white even though know one knows what race clawdeen even is. So instead of getting excited about a KID show people decide to take a nice topic and turn it into a argument of prejudice and racism. Funny how white to black or really anything not white is fine no one cares like Wayne's brothers doing white face. But black to white or werewolf covered in fur so ? Skin color to white is racist. Racism goes both ways and you can't fight racism with racism it's counter productive Cleo is played by a Latino no one cares Abby from the Himalayas is not an Asian actor no one cares. Make Frankie Stein all races ad and make one of her arms white and people will complain. In conclusion monsters can b any race.
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Clawdeen is not black in the cartoon, she is clearly Italian. All of the werewolves have this vague mafia you don't go against the family vibes. Her voice actress is of Italian descent and there are no werewolves in African mythology. Her brother's friend is literally named Romulus who was a legendary king of Rome, I have always thought that the werewolves were meant to be Italian. There is absolutely no indication that she is black in the cartoon. Honestly, there aren't a lot of characters that I would think were meant to be black in the cartoon, which is really a shame. I would have been totally down for them making some new characters for the movie, there are a lot of really cool monsters in African mythology that would make for interesting characters. And also why is nobody talking about the fact that the girl playing Abbey isn't asian? She's from the Himalayas and she's not Asian. And for some reason, they felt the need to race change Draculaura who is eastern European? None of this casting really makes sense, the girl playing Cleo is Hispanic instead of middle eastern. I know you can't always get an actress who is exactly the right ethnicity and has the right appearance and is the right age, I mean like half the characters in monster high are based on Greek mythology, and it would probably be hard to find that many young greek actor's. But it doesn't seem like they even tried.
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Italian is an ethnicity. Black is a race. There could be black Italians, so based off of her skin color alone, Clawdeen is visibly black.
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Yes, there could be black Italians, but that's not skin it's FUR. She's a werewolf she is covered in fur. It even says so on the wiki. Having brown fur does not make you black. If she's black because she has brown fur, then what race are the werewolves with grey fur? There are no wolves in Africa, if they cast a black actress for one of the werecats that would make perfect sense there are werecats in African mythology.
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Clawdeen's actress isn't white. Google the actress, they just used a bad photo here.
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