The Iron Giantwas a weird situation because Warner Bros. Well, you hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one. “I find that fascinating and frustrating.”īack when were developing the original Incredibles-after a difficult experience making The Iron Giant at Warner Bros.-could you have imagined the way it would be received? “The weird thing is, if I’d made The Incredibles, shot-for-shot-exactly the same script, same timing, same shots-in live action, it would be perceived very differently, and somehow more adult than me doing it in animation,” he says. Making ambitious live-action films like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland in between animated outings, Bird continues to fight against preconceptions of animation as a form. “I probably shouldn’t, but for some reason, I like these big, complicated things where I’m doomed to fail.” But I tend to like things that are hard I don’t know why,” Bird says. “Every film has a lot of questions that you don’t know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out.

“But I didn’t have the villain story, the action storyline thing.” For the writer/director, Incredibles 2 would have to make good use of a world and characters that had already been built, while advancing the story-pleasing diehard Disney fans, with an eye toward creating something new. “The idea for the role switch, I had early, while we were promoting the first film-and I had the unexploded bomb of Jack-Jack, the audience knowing that he had multiple powers, while the Parr family did not,” Bird explains. Picking up the story of the Parr parents and their remarkable children-seemingly ordinary citizens living a double life as superheroes-the sequel manifested itself in certain fundamental ideas early on, with “the right combination of stuff” to follow. Disney, Despite 'Indy' & 'Elemental' Misfires, Leading 2023 Global Box Office With $3.4B

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