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08.12.2023 - 20:49 / deadline.com
For Disney’s 100th anniversary, writer-EP Jennifer Lee was tasked with creating an original fairytale that celebrated the legacy of Disney animated films. After finding a common theme in wishing upon a star, Wish was born as a way to dissect the power and vulnerability of the concept.
Wish follows Asha (Ariana DeBose), a young girl who disagrees with how the kingdom’s ruler Magnifico (Chris Pine) treats the wishes of her fellow citizens. She wishes upon a star for change, but is surprised when that star comes down from the sky to answer her call. While Star was originally a character with a voice, Lee says the simpler version of Star led to a much more fun character with physical humor.
DEADLINE: How did you arrive at that animation style? It’s very storybook-like.
JENNIFER LEE: In many ways we talked about nods to the past that we loved – particularly Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White – and wanting to pay homage to that. But deeper than that, we were really thinking about what animation can do to connect you to the artist, and embracing the new technologies that we have. But how can we bridge them? How can we really say that there’s no degree of separation from that brushstroke-artist vision to the technology we have today?
I loved that, in Wish, we were able to break it down so we could still move the camera incredibly. We could have layers to our environments, depth to our characters, depth to the lighting and all these wonderful things CG does, but we could also go right back to the heart of the artists that are foundational to everything we do here.
DEADLINE: How did that character of Star come about? I know it went through a lot of different iterations.
LEE: It did. The simple start was literally, ‘What
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