A24 has delayed the release date of 'The Legend of Ochi' due to the impact of the LA fires on director Isaiah Saxton.

A child befriending a creature everyone else thinks is too dangerous to befriend is the backbone of many memorable coming-of-age stories, from Free Willy and The Black Stallion to E.T. and How to Train Your Dragon. It’s the ultimate fantasy for young people: just getting a strange, misunderstood, unique creature in a way no one else can.

A24 has delayed the release of "The Legend of Ochi" after the filmmaker's house burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires.

A simplistic but affecting fable, The Legend Of Ochi luxuriates in its old-fashioned approach to live-action fantasy filmmaking, incorporating matte paintings and puppetry to tell the story of a teenager who befriends a rare,

The world premiere of A24's The Legend of Ochi will still go on at Sundance this Sunday at the library, but the distributor has a set a new release date of April 25. Previously, the Isaiah Saxon directed and written family title was to hit theaters on Feb.