I love that the movie has more than one theme in it.” Especially right now, in this place we’re at in the world, there is this idea of excess, greed and gluttony. And, I love the idea of embracing your passions and interests with pride. “So, we went to these movie places of fathers and sons, and I love you, How can we do that in a way that’s novel or unique or just a little bit twisted?”Īctress Anna Faris, who plays the heroine, Sam (short for Samantha), said, “I love the father-son relationship. “We had to find a way to stomach that stuff,” Lord added.
Miller joked, “We had to dig deep behind our veneer of irony and sarcasm to get to the chewy core!” “We were maybe less adept at the very beginning in making the emotional beats work.” Lord and Miller said the biggest challenge was expanding the story in such a way that viewers would find a 90-minute animated movie compelling and engaging. We wanted the story to be full of little added details in the background, to make sure the animators could pitch all sorts of little bits that you could really only catch on the third or fourth or fifth or the 100 th viewing.” “All we really did to craft the story was open the book up and look at all this stuff. “Obviously, it’s incredibly visually amazing, and there’s all these great details. “The sense of humor and the tone of the book was a huge inspiration,” he continued.
Lord added, “In the illustrations at least, there’s this kind of undertone, ‘Look how excessive all this crazy consumption is, look how silly it is.’ And then, once we started getting into the story, it became a lot about what it’s like to be a creative outsider in this small town, embracing your inner geek and believing in yourself. We were like, ‘This is a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, but silly on purpose.'” “We looked at it and saw pickles smashing into buildings and pancakes on the schools. “The book was a big influence on our comic sensibilities,” Miller said. “We just commandeered the meeting.”Ībout seven years later, their delightful movie has finally reached the moviegoing public, opening to some of the year’s best reviews, including MOVIEGUIDE®.Ĭlearly, these two young men had a strong vision of what this movie should be, and have carried it out in magnificent fashion.
“We forced them to let us make it,” Miller said with a slight chuckle. Thus, when Sony approached them about doing some movies with them, they jumped at the chance to do the movie version of the book when they heard that Sony had the property rights. Dartmouth grads Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have long wanted to do a movie version of their favorite book as a child, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS.
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