Pixar’s Creative President Andrew Stanton has screenwriting credits in every Pixar film. He also directed “Finding Nemo.” Stanton’s second directorial effort, “Wall-E,” releases June 27.
What do a missing fish, a talking cowboy doll named Woody and monster Mike Wazowski have in common?
Not only are they all main characters in wildly popular Pixar Animation Studios’ films, but also none of them would exist without the creative force that is Andrew Stanton.
“Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company’s elite group of computer animation pioneers,” according to a Pixar press release.
Today, Stanton is the creative president of Pixar.
As if his fancy job title was not enough to impress, he also has screenwriting credits in every Pixar film and directed “Finding Nemo.”
People like Stanton make Dr. Seuss look like a struggling freshman medical student.
Stanton counts down the days until his second directorial effort “WALL-E” releases in theaters June 27.
Like all Pixar films, “WALL-E” is based on a completely original story, which Stanton described with the question, “What if humanity had to leave Earth and someone forgot to turn the last robot off?”
At the forefront of this new film is a robotic main character named WALL-E, whose design ideas came from “looking through lots of catalogues of appliances and machines,” Stanton said.
When asked if he wrote “WALL-E” to be a character-driven story he said, “All [Pixar] movies are character-driven [because] character is story and story is character; they motivate everything.”
It bears mentioning that a lot of work goes into creating the adorable Pixar characters with which Stanton works.
However, upon first thought, it seems as if there would be less hassle directing a computer animated film compared to a live-action film, but Stanton would be quick to rebut that idea.
He says: “[Directing a computer animated film] is exactly like [being] a live-action director.
“I don’t talk to computers to get the job done, I talk to people.”
Stanton made it clear that he works with more than 200 individuals at Pixar in order to garner a finished product. Although, the filmmaking process differs from creating a live-action film.
“The lighting, the props, the sets and the actors are [created] in a different manner; we work on shots over a long period of time,” Stanton said. “It’s like making a live action film in slow motion.”
Stanton’s inherent love of film motivates all his hard work.
He put it best when he said, “We make movies for ourselves [because] we’re film lovers first and filmmakers second.”
Humans and robots should both be aware of Stanton’s testament to creating movies with heart.
So, when “WALL-E” rolls into theatres June 27, make an effort to see this loving movie made by movie lovers.
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