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Over a decade after creating Marcel the Shell with Jenny Slate, director Dean Fleishcer-Camp now brings the character into a feature-length animation with Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Filmmaker Dean (Fleischer-Camp) moves into an Airbnb where he finds a tiny talking shell named Marcel (Slate). Marcel lives in the home with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and has created whimsical and resourceful ways of dealing with problems in his everyday life. Dean begins filming Marcel’s antics and uploads the videos to YouTube, leading to Marcel becoming a cultural phenomenon that attracts the attention of 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl. To make sure he didn’t lose the charm of his original animated shorts, Fleischer-Camp stuck to a documentary-style approach to filming.
DEADLINE: Where did the original idea for the short films come from?
DEAN FLEISCHER-CAMP: It was a very long time ago in 2011. Jenny Slate, who does the voice of Marcel, and I were getting ready for another friend’s wedding. We were packed into this tiny room, and Jenny started doing this teeny, tiny voice to sort of express how cramped she felt in there. We joked about it all weekend at this wedding, and then when I got back afterwards, I had agreed to make this video for a friend’s comedy show. So, I was like, “Jenny, let me interview you in this character.” And then we very hastily put together Marcel, and bought a shell, little shoes and some googly eyes – basically like everything you could grab at a craft store – and we made him and then I interviewed Jenny and cut it together and animated it. I think it was like 48 hours, that first short was very fast.
DEADLINE: What was the process of bringing that into a feature-length film?
FLEISCHER-CAMP: It
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