Michael Regilio

I mean, there's big guardrails on the story, but I think that the danger on something like Toy Story 3 is you're going to resort to sort of cute blandness, or you're going to be sort of repeating yourself a little bit. And I remember my resolution was that I want the script to be funny, not just sort of chuckle, chuckle funny, but really funny. And I want it to be weird also. I want there to be

sort of unexpected, strange things that make sense within the logic of a toy universe, right? But that you would never think of yourself. So like, you got Lotso as the bad guy, Big Baby as the heavy, who's his enforcer. And you're trying to elaborate on what's come before, but remain consistent.

sort of unexpected, strange things that make sense within the logic of a toy universe, right? But that you would never think of yourself. So like, you got Lotso as the bad guy, Big Baby as the heavy, who's his enforcer. And you're trying to elaborate on what's come before, but remain consistent.

sort of unexpected, strange things that make sense within the logic of a toy universe, right? But that you would never think of yourself. So like, you got Lotso as the bad guy, Big Baby as the heavy, who's his enforcer. And you're trying to elaborate on what's come before, but remain consistent.

I think that it's just a balance that you're always trying to walk to remain true to the spirit of the original stuff and still expand on the universe and the characters.

I think that it's just a balance that you're always trying to walk to remain true to the spirit of the original stuff and still expand on the universe and the characters.

I think that it's just a balance that you're always trying to walk to remain true to the spirit of the original stuff and still expand on the universe and the characters.

Yeah, it's... Thanks for asking. It's kind of a stupid thing, but I remember I... Man, I worked on Little Miss Sunshine for like four years to get that movie made. Major investment in my life. I wrote 100 drafts of that script. For Toy Story 3, I worked on that script for three years and was very happy that got my name on the movie and it came out.

Yeah, it's... Thanks for asking. It's kind of a stupid thing, but I remember I... Man, I worked on Little Miss Sunshine for like four years to get that movie made. Major investment in my life. I wrote 100 drafts of that script. For Toy Story 3, I worked on that script for three years and was very happy that got my name on the movie and it came out.

Yeah, it's... Thanks for asking. It's kind of a stupid thing, but I remember I... Man, I worked on Little Miss Sunshine for like four years to get that movie made. Major investment in my life. I wrote 100 drafts of that script. For Toy Story 3, I worked on that script for three years and was very happy that got my name on the movie and it came out.

And then this was at the beginning of my script doctoring career. I was hired to work on the film Oblivion as a script doctor. I went and I did two weeks of work, just not expecting to get credit at all. What I did was I changed it from... The opening and the ending, the script I got made it out to be a war movie. It was like an alien invasion. We fought back against them, blah, blah, blah.

And then this was at the beginning of my script doctoring career. I was hired to work on the film Oblivion as a script doctor. I went and I did two weeks of work, just not expecting to get credit at all. What I did was I changed it from... The opening and the ending, the script I got made it out to be a war movie. It was like an alien invasion. We fought back against them, blah, blah, blah.

And then this was at the beginning of my script doctoring career. I was hired to work on the film Oblivion as a script doctor. I went and I did two weeks of work, just not expecting to get credit at all. What I did was I changed it from... The opening and the ending, the script I got made it out to be a war movie. It was like an alien invasion. We fought back against them, blah, blah, blah.

And when they sent me the script, I was like, this is actually a love story. This is about a guy who's haunted by dreams of a woman that he's never met. So I rewrote the beginning. I rewrote the ending. And that changed the nature of the movie from being kind of just this war movie to being a love story.

And when they sent me the script, I was like, this is actually a love story. This is about a guy who's haunted by dreams of a woman that he's never met. So I rewrote the beginning. I rewrote the ending. And that changed the nature of the movie from being kind of just this war movie to being a love story.

And when they sent me the script, I was like, this is actually a love story. This is about a guy who's haunted by dreams of a woman that he's never met. So I rewrote the beginning. I rewrote the ending. And that changed the nature of the movie from being kind of just this war movie to being a love story.

And very surprisingly, because I only worked on that script for two weeks, the studio elected to give me credit on it. And I was just like, man, these are my characters. This isn't my story. I only worked on this thing for two weeks. It just is a different kind of writing. Little Miss Sunshine came out of me. It came out of my personal experience. It's an expression of who I am.

And very surprisingly, because I only worked on that script for two weeks, the studio elected to give me credit on it. And I was just like, man, these are my characters. This isn't my story. I only worked on this thing for two weeks. It just is a different kind of writing. Little Miss Sunshine came out of me. It came out of my personal experience. It's an expression of who I am.

And very surprisingly, because I only worked on that script for two weeks, the studio elected to give me credit on it. And I was just like, man, these are my characters. This isn't my story. I only worked on this thing for two weeks. It just is a different kind of writing. Little Miss Sunshine came out of me. It came out of my personal experience. It's an expression of who I am.

And I worked on it for four years, right? And then with Oblivion, I'm just coming in to somebody else's script. I'm making little adjustments here and there. It just felt like two completely different kinds of writing. And so I thought, I'll just use a pseudonym for stuff that I'm doing.