BRAD BIRD

Writer/director of Incredibles 2

Where did the “The” in the title go?

We put the title The Incredibles 2 in a wind tunnel, and the “the” just went!

What did you hope to achieve with the new action scenes?

I’d love to give you a pretentious answer that makes it sound like I’m incredibly smart. But the truth is, we were just running like hell, trying not to get run over by the freight train right behind us. you make the action every bit as exciting as a live-action film. that’s hard to do because in people’s minds, animation has a history of the Road Runner, where somebody falls off a cliff and then dusts themselves off. So jeopardy is hard to do. I think we were successful with jeopardy in the first film. So we tried to continue in that tradition.

Could you do a George Lucas and revise the original with new tech?

No. Well, if you’ve got a spare couple of hundred million, we’ll be glad to! It’s actually not as computerdriven as you’d think. the computer is just a big tool. It’s a big paintbrush that’s wielded with care.

Will we have to wait another 14 years for Incredibles 3?

I don’t know. Don’t ask me now. enjoy this one! Matt Maytum