For an animated film, five years is average; in internet years, its a whole generation.
says Johnston, who co-wrote the first film and now co-directs with the originals helmer, Moore.
There was a point when we thought, Wevegotto getKen Boneinto this movie, laughs Moore.
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The next week, we were like, Nope, Ken Bone isnt going to be in this movie.
(Broken…yet again!)
The directors equate the endless narrative opportunity to the way ambitious auteur filmmakers fancy Manhattan.
Its like if you said, I want to make a movie about New York.
Were going to tell a New York story.
That can go a million different ways, says Moore.
But whattypeof story do you want to tell in New York?
So we really started with our two main characters friendship and the difference in their approach.
We very quickly come to realize they dont have the same point of view.
Ralph likes the comfort of his small town.
And Vanellope, upon going to the Internet, starts to think, Justbeinghere is expanding my horizons.
We bounce the story off that dynamic between the old and the new.
Were trying to deal with ideas that we can all relate to but maybe dont talk about as much.
Depression and anxiety and stuff like that.
Theyre hungry for discussions that they have in their car as theyre driving home from the movie theater.
They dont want to just go to laugh or to cry.
They want them to mean something.
