Tim Minchin to write score for new Australian DreamWorks film Comedian, writer and composer Tim Minchin will be lending his musical skills to a new animated film from DreamWorks, the studio behind Shrek and Madagascar. The film is currently titled Larrikins, Australian slang for mischievious youth, and stars an uptight bilby, a marsupial who lives in the desert, who leaves the security of his family burrow for a musical adventure across the wilds of the Australian outback. Minchin, who was born in Northampton but raised near the Australian outback, will be writing the score and lyrics for the film. He is best known for composing Matilda the Musical, the Olivier Award-winning West End and Broadway show which is in the running for 12 Tony Awards on Sunday. In a release, Minchin said: "I was lucky enough to grow-up in Western Australia and know that the Australian outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and the characters that inhabit it are unique and hilarious and tough and cheeky. It's going to be bloody good fun.