While trying to decide what to use instead, fate intervened.
Once I had it in my head, I couldn’t drop it.
I had to try it.
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I just kept waiting for it to fall apart.
There were so many reasons why it wouldn’t hold.
It was so incongruous that it was attractive, and so we worked it into the story."
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For Stanton and the team at Pixar, justifying the choice was easy.
Numerous negotiations through official channels with studio lawyers fell apart.
But once again, destiny was on their side.
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“He was able to cut through all the red tape and talk straight,” Stanton says.
“He basically said, ‘We have nothing but good intentions.
These things are just sitting in the vault, why not give it some exposure?
And everybody wins.’
And that’s what happened.”
Stanton says the sequence came from years of careful planning and picking apart moments.
“It was really mining the song and watching the movie for anything that looked memorable and definable.
So it was easy to reverse-engineer, and tipping your hat is something that’s really clear.
We just kept going back to it to mine stuff from it.
With that in mind, Stanton turned toHello, Dollyto craft a moment.
Before that, he brought his high school friend who had portrayed Cornelius alongside his Barnaby to theWALL-Epremiere.
Since the film’s release, the ties betweenWALL-EandDollyhave only grown stronger.
There, he told a story that blew the director away.
This is bigger than the universe, just think of the stars.'
“It’s the same ethos as hip-hop,” he says.
To me, that was exciting.
It felt fresh in a weird way, recycling all this stuff in a different combination.”
