Pierre Coffin

Very nice.

Thank you for having me.

Where are we with this film?

So this film comes from a place of me not wanting to do Minion movies anymore.

Yeah.

Yeah, because, you know, I've done three Despicable Me's, one Minion movie, and then I sort of helped out on the others in terms of voicing.

But I really, you know, I didn't want to do one more of the same.

But one day, Chris Maldondre, the producer, called me and said like, okay, you're going to say no, I know, blah, blah, blah.

But hear me out.

And if you could help me, that would be great.

And so he pitched me the idea of like minions wanting to make a movie, a monster movie, summoning a monster or building one or wasn't quite sure.

And then, you know, the monster would turn against the minions and start destroying Earth and the minions would have to, you know, sort of correct their blunder once again.

And he had me at Minions wanting to make a movie because from that moment onwards, I sort of knew that I wanted it to, if I was doing it, I wanted it to happen in the Hollywood in the 20s when this

film became when film became an industry and i could reference like you know people coming over from east germany and and building studios and and and making films there was so much context that i knew that i could get inspiration from just to nourish uh just to surround the minions and putting the minions in that context would provide me with sufficient matter to make this this new movie hopefully original

and hopefully a little bit less like the others.

Well, I'm asking that myself now that the movie is about to come out.

Yes.

Just because I'm wondering, like, is it funny enough?

This thing is more of a time piece.

So children maybe will not get that aspect of things.