00:00The film production began six years ago and the world was very different from where it is now.
00:06If you were to start today, would the movie be very different?
00:10I mean, do you think that the twists and turns of today's world
00:13will make the film be seen a different way than you expected while you were making it?
00:18I don't know. That's a great question.
00:21I mean, there's a part of me that says it would be the same
00:26because I think a lot of the things that I was feeling six years ago,
00:29which kind of pushed me thematically to kind of make the movie we did,
00:33still feels pretty relevant today and still feels like it's something top of mind,
00:38whether it's connection or the lack of coexistence.
00:43So, yeah, there's a part of me that kind of wonders,
00:46maybe it would still be the same and I'd pursue the same things,
00:50but, yeah, hard to answer that question.
00:53I love seeing that you were allowed to use cartoonish persons,
00:57a little bit like Looney Tunes in the movie.
01:00Oh, yeah.
01:01Did you ever think about making a more normal film in that sense
01:04or were you clear that the pace and humor should always be subordinate
01:08to that style of animation?
01:11You know, I don't know how methodical or, like, technical I was about, like,
01:17you know, we're going to go this, push the animation this far to be cartoony
01:21and this part to be grounded, but we definitely needed a balance
01:23because, you know, I think we couldn't make this movie full-on Looney Tunes
01:28because I think there also needs to be a very certain level of emotional grounding
01:32that these characters need to have to sustain this movie.
01:36And I think it was a balance that we had to just navigate with the team as we went,
01:41you know, just we kind of took it piece by piece
01:44and just navigated each sequence according to what felt right
01:48and we'd step back, watch it as a whole,
01:51and then we might even go back into the animation to adjust it
01:54if we feel like we went too far in a certain moment
01:56or we need to go farther in another moment.
01:58So it's not a science.
02:00It's a very, like, trial and error kind of situation with a lot of that stuff.
02:05Um, I am rooting and I think we are rooting for original films like this.
02:11And I'm very happy that they exist and this movie exists.
02:15But being honest, you were asked to make a sequel to Hoppers.
02:18Could you do it?
02:19Do you think that you will have ideas or it would feel like a cast graph?
02:26I love the idea of a sequel.
02:28I mean, I think part of that stems from my time in TV.
02:30You know, I made 140 episodes of our TV show, Bears, which you know.
02:35And, uh, there's something kind of beautiful about getting to continue on adventures
02:39and, you know, audience kind of getting to see a character they love,
02:44you know, keep going on doing different things and seeing them in different contexts.
02:47So I think that getting to do a sequel if the movie is successful
02:51is kind of an amazing thing that feels to me like it could be a very natural thing.
02:55And we certainly cut out a lot of things in this movie.
02:58So there's plenty of material.
03:00About that, you said in the discussion that the film changed a lot based on external suggestions.
03:04Yeah.
03:04What gag or subplot did you have to remove from the film that still hurts you to...
03:10Okay, I'll pitch you a gag.
03:12I've never said this interview, but since you're asking.
03:14We had this gag once and we boarded it where, you know, like when humans like see animals in nature
03:23and it's like, oh, stop, shh, shh, and you watch like a deer in nature like graze
03:30and then you make a sound and it like, and then runs away.
03:33We did that in the animal point of view.
03:35We had this gag where George is like bringing Mabel on the tour
03:38and then he's like, wait, wait, shh, and they like open up like a plate of grass
03:43and it's like a human, but it kind of looks like a deer and it's a runner.
03:47And then he stops, gets a drink, and then they make a sound and he like perks up
03:52and then he runs and then George goes, oh, beautiful.
03:56So I remember us boarding that thinking it was so funny
04:00and we just couldn't find a place in the movie for it.
04:04And it was painful that we couldn't.
04:07So we have it boarded.
04:08We have it somewhere.
04:09Maybe it could exist somewhere.
04:11I don't know.
04:11Put it in the DVD.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Oh, yeah.
04:13We might have actually put it in the DVD or that, yeah, DVD or Disney Plus specials.
04:18Yeah.
04:19What will you do when the film comes out in terms of reviews?
04:22Will you read the professional ones, go on social media, letterbox,
04:25or do you prefer to live in peace and not knowing anything about it?
04:28Man, that is, thank you for asking that.
04:31I wish I was a person that could just go like,
04:34who cares what people think, I'm going to not.
04:36But I mean, we're all humans and we want to,
04:39we make this so people can enjoy it.
04:41So, of course, I want to know that people, how they feel about it.
04:44But it, you know, it's a painful process because, you know,
04:48it's like any creative thing.
04:51Some people like it, some don't, you know.
04:53And so I remember the first review or the first comment,
04:58because when our, when We Bare Bears went up on YouTube,
05:03the first comment on top was, no.
05:06And I remember how painful that was.
05:09Because it was like, this is someone's first hot take on our show.
05:12Luckily, once it came out, people like loved it.
05:15And there was a little less of that.
05:17But it's, we're humans, you know.
05:19So, yeah.
05:23Talking about We Bare Bears.
05:25Yeah.
05:25I'd like to know to what extent you couldn't have made this film
05:29without the madness of We Bare Bears.
05:31Would you ever consider doing a reboot of that show?
05:35Oh.
05:35In the future?
05:36Well, they did do a spinoff, but for the Baby Bears after the Bears show.
05:41But would we do a reboot?
05:44Why not?
05:45I mean, I think, to me, it was, it was, it's a show that could be adjusted to the present
05:51day.
05:52And, you know, I think Bears was always a show about, like, dealing with modern technology
05:56and modern day problems.
05:58So I think there is something kind of funny about imagining down the road,
06:02whatever future that is and whatever the, what was relevant at that,
06:05whatever is relevant in that future.
06:08Putting the Bears in that context, I think, could always be really funny.
06:10So, yeah, I'm open.
06:13Yeah, okay.
06:14I have one last question.
06:16Yeah.
06:17So I don't have anyone.
06:19Go, are you sure?
06:21Those of us.
06:22Okay, all right.
06:25Can you, sorry, can you sign this?
06:27Yeah.
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