GULFWEEKLY: American comedy film Minions & Monsters is out now in theatres.
Set in the 1920s, the story follows the mischievous yellow henchmen, voiced by film director, writer and animator Pierre Coffin, as they become Hollywood sensations upon crashing a film set.
However, their 15 minutes of fame are cut short when sound is introduced to film.
Unable to follow a script in their Minionese language, the characters roam the streets of Tinsel Town looking for a new purpose. However, Minions James, Ed and Henry break away from their tribe, and attempt to make an awesome monster movie of their own.
In an interview, Pierre expressed how the third instalment in the Minions prequel series and seventh overall in the Despicable Me franchise, came together after initially moving on from the animated universe.
After Despicable Me 3 (2017), Pierre told Illumination studios founder Chris Meledandri that he wanted out as director, as he found the creation process spanning four years to be exhausting.
That is until he received a call from Chris with the idea of a Minion that sets out to make a monster movie, resulting in the creative talent having a ‘billion ideas’.
“If they’re making movies, why not set it in Hollywood’s golden age, the 1920s, at the dawn of cinema’s industrialisation,” he remarked.
“There is something very specific about the Minions: in the way they move, in the way their gags are constructed; they are heirs to the silent-film stars — Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd. So the period allowed me to do two things. I could introduce new Minions in a new context and I could pay homage to the people who invented a certain kind of visual comedy,” he added.
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