00:00Y hablamos de que no es lo que no significa hacer la misma cosa.
00:03Y eso fue parte de la razón por la que llegamos con Mrs. Kakoa.
00:06Fue más honesto para tener un real social worker ahí y no Cobra Bubbles.
00:11¡Hemos capturado a un peligroso experimento! ¿En dónde está?
00:20¡Logró escapar!
00:21¡Trata de encontrar las naves patrulla!
00:24¡Él tiene la roja!
00:27¡Hola chicos!
00:29Soy Uriel Linares de Censacina That Time.
00:31Es un placer tener esta conversación con vosotros. ¿Cómo estás?
00:33¡Muy bien! ¡Muy bien! ¡Muchas gracias! ¡Muchas de conocerte!
00:35Thank you.
00:36Well, first of all, Leland Stitch is one of the most beloved Disney stories in the world.
00:42Different generations know the dialogues and scenes of the animated movie by heart.
00:47I want to start by asking,
00:49what are the requirements for an animated movie to get its live action version?
00:55Well, I mean, I don't know that there's a set requirement.
00:58Although, it's funny, this one actually sort of did begin.
01:00I was finishing up making the live action version of Aladdin for Disney
01:04and sort of starting to talk to Disney about, you know, other titles, you know, we loved.
01:08And this was one of those movies that just was so unique and so distinctly weird.
01:13And you sort of felt like it was also set in a sort of present day, grounded, you know, human characters.
01:19It sort of felt like it was almost prime for live action.
01:22And then at the same time,
01:24it just felt like there was this sort of nostalgia thing that was happening two decades later
01:28where you're starting to see Stitch stuffies or Stitch backpacks everywhere.
01:31And you're like, there's a whole generation.
01:33I would actually, you know, I have two children.
01:35I would actually talk to kids.
01:36I'm like, oh, you're a huge Stitch fan.
01:37They'd be like, yeah, I love Stitch.
01:39Oh, you love the movie?
01:40Like, I've never seen it.
01:42And you sort of realize like people love this character.
01:44We're sort of coming back into the world.
01:46But not this new generation didn't necessarily know the movie as well as we all did.
01:50So I think it was sort of a series of all of these things.
01:53But then ultimately it really comes down to like, well, who's going to tell this story?
01:57And we started looking for a director.
01:59And that was when we had a chance to see Marcel the Shell early.
02:03And we're just so blown away by, you know, the heart and the humor and the sort of live action environment.
02:08But this animated character that had such a distinct personality.
02:12And, you know, that was when, you know, we sort of realized this would be the perfect director for us.
02:17And then it just so happened that Dean's favorite movie of all time, animated movie, was Lilo and Stitch.
02:22So it was just sort of this kismet thing that was coming together that it just felt like this was the right time to do it.
02:28And talk about that.
02:30Dean, just this week I saw the movie.
02:34And I must tell you that the work on Stitch animation is remarkable.
02:38I could feel Stitch joy, even the madness and sadness.
02:43What was the biggest challenge to create his live action version?
02:47Please tell me.
02:48It was something that I come from animation a bit.
02:51So it was something I was really passionate about.
02:53I think a mistake that sometimes live action adaptations make is that they think the job is done once the lighting looks perfect and he looks perfectly integrated.
03:02But the truth is that's only half the job.
03:04You also need to make sure that in the process that you haven't stripped away all of the charisma and cuteness and expressiveness that comes a little more easily in a traditional animated film.
03:17And so that was something we worked on a lot.
03:20We tried to, I think, in terms of the design, we tried to really prioritize maintaining the shape language and allowing for that expressiveness to come through,
03:29not making him look too much like an animal that could exist in the real world or already does exist.
03:33And speaking of fans' expectations, this version chooses to present new scenes, new dialogues and situations in the life of these beloved characters.
03:44What led you guys to make the decision not to recreate the animated film, you know, because many scenes, phrases and even characters do not appear in this new film?
03:54No, I think when you take on these projects, I think you have this message that you sort of hear from everyone on the Internet, which is don't mess it up.
04:03And we talk about don't mess it up doesn't mean make the exact same thing.
04:07And if you actually do and you just try to make a shot for shot remake, fans are going to be equally disappointed.
04:11And then there are so many ways to kind of take the story in new directions and sort of mine even more emotional depth.
04:18And when you have human characters, it is just a different experience.
04:22When you see a social worker talking to a human actor about maybe separating two sisters, like there's just a bit of a gut punch, you know, and that was part of why we came up with Mrs. Kakoa.
04:33It felt, you know, it felt maybe more honest to have a real social worker there and not Cobra Bubbles in that scene like it would have been in the animated movie.
04:40So, you know, there's just so many of those along the way that that start to kind of enrich and deepen the story and hopefully give audiences something new.
04:48Well, guys, something might chime in sob, but I really enjoyed this conversation.
