In the first movie, you’ll notice that they’re all male characters, and we were able to really diversify on this movie, which was a lot more fun. We really fleshed out the world too, as far as the pigs, with some of the new characters, like Silver and Veta, and Courtney, the character played by Awkwafina. Environmentally, we were able to go to completely different places than you’d ever seen before in the video game or the first movie. Van Orman: There are some things where you obviously have to stay true to what they did on the first movie, but I think that we were really able to push it on this movie. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation. In terms of the visual elements and the animation itself, was there any sort of evolution from the first one to this one? How were you able to put an imprint on the film in terms of design? Director Thurop Van Orman and producer John Cohen at the Cannes Film Festival. You don’t want the audience to know everything you want them to need to know before you give it to them.
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You just don’t really ever get anywhere, and you should know who the characters are through and through within a minute and with a movie it’s totally different, because you want to peel back the layers slowly. In video games, they say it should take you a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, so you never really progress in a video game, and that’s the idea of it. Van Orman: I used to work in video games, that was my first job in animation actually, and in video games, you’re looking for something totally different than you’re looking for in movies. They’re expecting more of those battles between birds and pigs, because that’s what only happens in the Angry Birds games, and it was exciting to us to give them something that they totally didn’t expect, something very different, which was introducing this new villain, that the birds and pigs are forced to team up and work together to take on. One of the things that was on our mind, and Thurop and I talked about quite a bit through the making of the movie, was that the audience is probably expecting certain things from this movie. John Cohen: We had fun with the first movie bringing the game to life and honoring all the things that people liked from the game, and expected to have in a movie based on the game, but what was so cool about The Angry Birds Movie 2 was that we could move beyond it, and we could really go in whatever direction we wanted. I don’t want to speak for John, but I think that was John’s goal too, and John had really great ideas for the film before I even came on to it.
Thurop Van Orman: When I signed on, the goal was to elevate it from a movie about a video game to a movie about these great characters that they established in the first movie, and I think we did a really good job of it.
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In Cartoon Brew’s interview with the Van Orman and Cohen, they spoke about how they were able to set aside the video game origins of the IP, how they pushed for more edge-of-your-seat-worthy action sequences, and the differences between directing for tv and feature.Ĭartoon Brew: Coming off of the success of the first film, did you feel like you were able to evolve or transform the franchise in any way, or perhaps give it a different twist?
The star-studded sequel introduces several new characters, including a memorable villain named Zeta ( SNL’s Leslie Jones), and an entire new location for the bird and pig adventures to unfold: a frozen island. Van Orman delivered with a film that has already received considerable praise from critics for its dark humor, adult-oriented references, and female empowerment messaging. John Cohen, the producer of this sequel as well as the original Angry Birds Movie, tasked Van Orman with advancing the franchise based on the popular Rovio Entertainment mobile game and encouraged him to take more creative liberties with the world and its inhabitants.
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Best known for creating the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Van Orman also worked as supervising producer on Adventure Time and Sanjay and Craig, and co-developed and executive produced the Dreamworks series Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Thurop Van Orman, and though he had never directed a full-length project before, he came to the project with a well developed approach to animation, thanks to his decade-and-a-half of experience working in the tv animation industry. A director with a refined creative sense and POV can make a huge impact on an animated feature, even one that is based on a well established franchise.
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