I know that it was inspired by your childhood and you said that you see some of yourself in Norman. I want to talk for a second about ParaNorman, which you also wrote and directed. And that comes from when you stitch a costume… You’ve got fuzz, and on the surface of the fabric you’ve got the weight and light refracts over different materials. I think what we get is the imperfection of reality. There’s an element of that to it because you can tell that these things are real objects, and you almost want to reach in and touch them. It almost speaks to your childhood, when you’re playing with toys and you’re imagining things come to life. It’s unique because it’s got one foot in live-action and one foot in animation.
You actually have a physical object on a set. I think it’s less to do with the style of animation and more to do with the fact that stop motion is ultimately real life on real objects. What do you think it is about stop motion animation that makes it stand out? And I think that’s how the whole thing started to shape the story. I wanted to do something completely different and so did Travis (Travis Knight, director of Kubo.) I think I also wanted to do a buddy movie where kind of the central theme was about identity. A beautiful kind of meditation on loss and grief. The studio had just done Kubo, which was quite dark. I wanted to do something that was kind of like Indiana Jones meets Sherlock Holmes. I’ve maybe got about a dozen ideas over the years that I keep going back to… Missing Link was one of these ideas. I have several notebooks that date back 20 years or so. It took me several days to get over it.Ĭan you tell us about how the idea for Missing Link came about and what’s the story behind it? It’s not gonna happen.” So, when they read out the name, I actually can’t remember most of it because I was in a state of shock… Because we were up against such big movies, I just didn’t think we stood a chance.
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I didn’t get a Globe nomination for ParaNorman so this was a first for me… I just went into the ceremony thinking “Not a chance.” Even when we took our tables, I was trying to figure out how to get to the stage and I thought “Nah, don’t bother. What was it like to win the Golden Globe for Best Animated Movie? This must be a really exciting time for you. Hi Chris first of all, congratulations on your Golden Globes win and the Oscar nomination. Joined by adventurer Adelina Fortnight ( Zoe Saldana ), they will embark on an adventure across the globe which will change their lives forever.Īhead of the Oscars ceremony, where Missing Link is nominated as Best Animated Feature, we chatted with the film’s writer and director, Chris Butler. The film tells the story of Link (Zach Galifianakis), a lonely Sasquatch living in the woods of Washington State who recruits disgraced explorer Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman) to help him find his long-lost relatives in the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Having personally known Chris Butler, who worked on some of my favourite movies including ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, I was thrilled when offered the opportunity to interview him about his new Oscar-nominated movie, Missing Link. I have been a huge fan of Laika Studios and their movies for a long time now.
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