We were like, ‘OK, that looks like a pill with a goggle on it. “I said, ‘Well, what about mole people?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t know what that is.’ So I sent a couple ugly sketches to Pierre and Eric, and then Eric did a sketch that’s basically what you see you today. “Pierre was the one who said ‘Maybe they shouldn’t be robots,’” recalls Renaud. If the Minions loved him, he could love the Minions. But the filmmakers - including Renaud, co-director Pierre Coffin and art director Eric Guillon - kept playing with the concept, trying to channel the spirit of the Jawas in “Star Wars” or the Oompa Loompas in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” Since “Despicable Me” was based on Gru, the evildoing protagonist, the Minions needed to help balance him. Then they were cylindrically shaped robots. When the filmmakers and artists of the Paris-based animation studio Illumination were developing “Despicable Me,” the original script had them as “henchmen and technicians” and the early mock-ups drew them as hulking tough guys, almost Orc-like monsters. The Minions - a second-banana scene-stealing horde of mostly incompetent but fiercely loyal henchmen - have in 12 years become a formidable force and a ubiquitous culture presence.įailing upward has gotten the Minions very far, indeed, especially considering how close they came to never quite clicking in the first place. That’s a big reason why “Rise of Gru” was held back by Universal Pictures for the last two years during the pandemic. The “Despicable Me” franchise (a fourth is due in 2024) and its “Minions” spinoffs already rank as the highest-grossing animated film franchise ever with more than $3.7 billion in tickets sold worldwide. This summer, the goggle-wearing yellow ones will return yet again to further expand their sizable empire in “Minions: Rise of Gru” (in theaters July 1). The Minions may be the world’s most popular, and lucrative, foreign language movie stars - even if “Minionese” isn’t an officially recognized language. Sure, you can occasionally hear them say “Banana!” or possibly “Smoochy smoochy!” but most of what they say is gibberish. NEW YORK (AP) - Some of the movies’ biggest stars barely speak a word of English, or any other language for that matter.
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