FANTASY EPIC

“We started developing Kubo five years ago; the pace of these things is glacial! We were still in production on ParaNorman, and the original idea sprang from the mind of our character designer Shannon Tindle, who imagined this incredible, sweeping samurai epic. It was just a really cool concept we’d never seen before. It spoke to me in a meaningful way because when I was a kid I was an enormous fan of fantasy epics. I loved Tolkien, Star Wars, Greek and Norse mythology. With Kubo, we had a canvas with which we could paint in those same colours.”