‘Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand Discuss Their Emmy-Nominated Disney+ Movie
18.08.2022 - 04:11
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Where did this come from? Was there an open call for insane ‘Rescue Rangers’ takes? And you said, “Yeah, we’re insane”?Dan Gregor: We’ve been working with Disney on a couple different things and they asked us one day if we wanted to come up with any takes for ‘Rescue Rangers.’ Honestly, our first reaction was like, “Eh, no. Why?” But they were insistent and they said, “Well, really just come in with anything.”For us, we really started asking ourselves, “Okay, why would we do this? Why should this movie exist? Why do we do all these reboots in the first place?” We started to ask a lot more about the larger culture of this endless stream of reboots and toxic nostalgia and what we are all getting out of constantly reliving our past.
We started having real clarity on it when we started putting those conversations and questions into the mouths of the characters. Once the characters, Chip and Dale, started asking those same questions, it all started to make a lot of sense to us that we should look at perhaps kind of ‘Roger Rabbit’-esque Hollywood story about two former actors having these conversations.
That was the jumping-off point for us, that infused the whole world and the ethos underneath all of it.Doug Mand: We pitched them this idea and we’re like, “You told us to come in with anything.” They liked it and our producers at Mandeville, Todd Lieberman and Alex Stone, liked it too. We were like, “Okay, we’ll write it.
If you’re cool with this idea, we’ll write it.” The whole way through, we were like, “Are you sure?” They, to their credit, were into the idea and got behind it.Was there ever a version where it was actually set in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s during the production of the show?Doug Mand: Not our version. The way
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