While they are supposed to be serving evil, what they really do is serve up anarchic hilarity.Ĭoffin does all the voices for the Minions in the new film, speaking in what some fans have dubbed Minionese. In a way, they are like silent movie stars, speaking the universal language of goofiness. They’re also ageless and without a specific language.” Janet Healy, a producer on the new film, thinks some of the Minions’ popularity is due to them being “subversive, childlike, sincere, expressive and invincible. Note, it isn’t named after the main character Gru or his daughters, although they make an appearance in the 3-D attraction. “Despicable Me 3” is scheduled to be released June 30, 2017.Ī lot of the success of the franchise is due to the popularity of the Minions, who have their own rides at Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida called Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. The first “Despicable Me” grossed $543 million worldwide, while the 2013 sequel did even better with $970 million worldwide. He added jokingly, “You know, things I do in my normal day-to-day life. “I would just flash back to being a kid, watching cartoons and thinking I could do that myself.” I wondered what he sounds like and began messing around with voices in my head,” says Hamm. “I was thinking this guy looks really cool. The actor says he found inspiration for the voice he uses in “Minions” from the artist’s rendering of Herb. If there is an analogy to be made, he’s a little closer to Austin Powers in a sartorial sense.” Hamm says, “I don’t think he’s very similar to Don. Known for the role of Don Draper on “Mad Men,” Hamm returns to the ’60s with Herb. “He said, ‘There’s my wife.’ I didn’t know what he was talking about, and he told me that we were husband and wife in the film. The “Mom” actress - who voices Madge, the mother in a family of felons in the film - recounts how she had gone to a pre-Oscar party and ran into Michael Keaton. Three of them - Stuart, Bob and Kevin - then head off to Villain-Con, a gathering of evil enthusiasts in then-swampy Orlando, Fla., to find a new master. The story eventually lands in 1968 when the Minions have exiled themselves to Antarctica, having no one to serve. It begins by explaining how they evolved from single-celled organisms to serve a series of terrible masters throughout history, from T. Seuss’ The Lorax”) and is something of an origin story. The film is directed by Pierre Coffin (both “Despicable Me” films) and Kyle Balda (“Dr. But they clearly stole the picture.įinally, the yellow fellows (we’ll call them fellows, though their sex is undetermined) get to star in their own film, appropriately titled “Minions,” opening July 10. “Despicable Me” came from an original story by Sergio Pablos and a script by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and they were the servants of supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell). The Minions weren’t even the stars of the 2010 animated hit that spawned them. How does that work?” marvels Jon Hamm.Īctually, how did these little yellow thumblike creatures called Minions - “little agents of chaos,” as Hamm calls them - become so popular in five years? In that time, they are one of the few things from Hollywood to succeed that is not from a comic book franchise, a fairy tale, a reboot or a reimagining. Minions opens in theaters beginning on July 10, 2015.“They wear overalls, but they don’t have shoulders. I had the opportunity to chat with the always wonderful Sandra Bullock in London, England about how she got into the mindset of playing such an evil character especially being labeled as America's Sweetheart, what she thought of the voice over process and how her young son Louis feels about her being an animated character. They emote with so much emotion that the language barrier doesn’t exist." And what does Bullock love most about the Minions? The Academy Award winning actress says it's quite simple, "What I love about the Minions is that you can’t really understand them, but you absolutely feel what they’re saying. He just loves the Minions and that is pretty much all that matters right now. She is excited for her young son Louis to see the film, but he doesn't quite grasp that his mom is lending her voice to the character. But underneath there’s a character you cannot help but fall in love with." She is really enjoying playing with this villainy. … Scarlet has all the gadgetry and accouterments of villainy. This is a side to Sandra Bullock we haven’t seen before. Minions producer Chris Meledandri, who is also head of the animation studio Illumination Entertainment, sums her up to USA Today, "Scarlet Overkill has fantastic hair, wears great clothes and has a lethal uppercut. When we turn her loose on the world, she is going to come out standing on top. Scarlet is one of those fabulous animated villains who according to Bullock was hard to pass on.
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