During the Variety Screening Series sponsored by Laika, “Missing Link” director Chris Butler revealed when he knew it was time for him to tackle an animated adventure movie.
“After I finished ‘ParaNorman,’ I felt like, okay, I made my horror movie for kids. Now I can concentrate on the other stuff that I loved when I was growing up, which was ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ So the idea was, what would you get if you crossed ‘Indiana Jones’ with ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and throw in monsters?” Butler asked,” a 2019 film that starred Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis .
“When I’m writing, I always got a little movie playing in my head. That’s what you aim for. That’s the ambition. But what you ultimately want is to make it better than the movie in your head,” Butler said. “That’s a big part for the actors. And, obviously, in animation, why we always record them first. Because they might do something — likeas an example, he started doing these vocal warm-ups in the booth where he was singing. And it’s Hugh Jackman singing in a booth.
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