Video interview: Bob Peterson (“Up”)
UPDATE: Despite some concerns on Wall Street, Up went sky high at the box office this weekend, generating an estimated $68M on par with Pixar’s biggest hits to date Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.
The new Pixar movie Up debuts in the U.S. this weekend. Do you know who its screenwriter is? His name is Bob Peterson, also the movie’s co-director.
Peterson had a hand in writing the scripts for two other Pixar movies — Finding Nemo and Ratatouille.
Here is a link to a short interview with Peterson (unfortunately embedding disabled) in which he talks, among other things, about why they created the Russell character, played by Jordan Nagai: “We wanted Carl (Edward Asner) to be off-balance the entire time.”
And here is an interview with the movie’s other co-director Pete Docter and one of its producers Jonas Rivera.