Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick Go Back to the Stone Age in New Animated Series

Facebook is hedging its bets with its Watch video platform, and it's recruiting Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick to help make sure its success.


Variety reports that the social media networking behemoth has tapped Efron and Kendrick for a upcoming animated comedy series set in prehistoric times called Human Discoveries. It's slated to create its debut on Facebook Watch later this year. Facebook Watch is a new video streaming service from Facebook that launched in 2017, so you could find a few original series calling it home.


Human Discoveries will follow a crowd of companions just hanging out, as you do, at the "dawn of human civilization." As they discover things like the all-important fire and the wheel, they also happen to uncover other challenging concepts, like liquor, style, art, racism, relationships, and even topics like monogamy. It sounds like the opening human beings are in for something of a wild ride, as far as all that's concerned.


The comedy will also feature stars like Lisa Kudrow, Paul Scheer, Lamorne Morris, and Jillian Bell. Created by Chris Bruno and David Howard Lee, it will feature production work from ShadowMachine and Ninja's Runnin' Wild, Zac Efron's production house.


Unfortunately, that's about all we know at present about the animated comedy, however it will nice to be able to see a little bit of levity from Efron soon after his transformation into serial killer Ted Bunny for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile. Meanwhile, Kendrick is gearing up for the release of three different films: The Day Shall Come, Noelle, and Trolls World Tour, where she'll reprise her role as Poppy.


Hopefully added specifics roll out soon involving what Efron and Kendrick's characters will look like in Human Discoveries, however up until then we can brainstorm what prehistoric personas both will have. We'd be ready to bet that Efron's caveman likeness probably won't be as attractive as how everyone's (somewhat weirdly) been finding his portrayal of Bundy.