EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked Oscar winning writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producing partner Jaime Ray Newman.
08.02.2022 - 01:29 / thewrap.com
“Turning Red” (which premieres exclusively on Disney+ March 11) is the story of Mei (Rosalie Chiang), a precocious 13-year-old Chinese girl growing up in Toronto, Canada. If being a tween wasn’t awkward enough, she finds herself transforming, when in a state of extreme emotional distress, into a giant red panda.
Considering your tween-to-teen-years are nothing if not a series of highly emotional states, this causes some considerable complications. It’s a Pixar movie that looks – and feels – quite different from anything the studio has produced before.TheWrap spoke to director Domee Shi (making her feature directorial debut after her beloved short “Bao”) and producer Lindsey Collins (a longtime Pixar vet) about what it was like crafting this unique and irreverent film.
They talked about how they cracked the “Asian tween fever dream” aesthetic, how working from home actually heightened the creative process and, of course, what it was like making Pixar’s horniest movie yet.Domee, you described the film as having an “Asian tween fever dream” aesthetic. Can you talk about that affected the storytelling and how you developed?Domee Shi: Yeah.
It all just came from our main character Mei Lee and just wanting to design the world through her eyes. And she is this bubbly, excited, confident but super-dorky 13-year-old Asian kid in Canada, and what does that look like? What does her world look like? We drew a lot from our own backgrounds, of growing up loving anime, “Sailor Moon,” “Ranma ½” and just loving the super colorful soft pastels of those shows, and really feeling like that captures the spirit of Mei.
EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked Oscar winning writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producing partner Jaime Ray Newman.
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