The year’s biggest animated film, The Bob’s Burgers Movie is set to hit theaters on May 27th, the cast and creators took some time to talk about the film with Screen Rant’s Ash Crossan. This is what they said, no spoilers will be found in this article.
For our filmmakers, what were the biggest challenges for you in just adapting the show into a film? Screenwriter, Nora Smith, and Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard answered the question:
Nora: well we knew that we had to try to make our fans happy and make people who are not our fans but are perfectly fine people as well happy. Like, people seeing it for the first time.
So we were trying to not make it too just chock-full of inside references and we wanted people to come at it fresh and still enjoy all the characters. And I think we did a good job.
Loren: We worked on this movie until just, it feels like last week. We were determined to take every moment they gave us and keep working on it. So yeah, it changed. It wasn’t like it drastically changed, it was more like any time we had, we were excited to take advantage of. Tweak jokes, change, you know, picture, fool around with the sound. It was not just the script, just everything was in our hands until they tore it from our little fingers.
What can you tell us about the look of Bob’s Burgers, and how it’s been enhanced for the big screen?
Loren: The first thing we did, we always say, every episode we do, we would love to make it look like the movie. But the problem is, we do 22 episodes a year. It’s 11 hours of Bob’s Burgers. So, we’ve only got a few weeks at a time where we can focus on each episode. It wasn’t actually that big of stretch on the movie, it’s just we had four years for an hour-and-a-half.
Is the consensus that Bob is a great cook and just not a great businessman? Or what do you think? The voice of Bob Belcher, H. Jon Benjamin, Loren, and Kristen Schaal the voice of Lousie Belcher answered the question:
Jon: Loren and I have talked about this over the years and I think, we got asked this question yesterday. I used to argue to Loren that Bob was not a good cook, ‘cause there was no customers. Of very few. Just Teddy. One guy came in, so maybe that’s indicative of a food problem. But Loren always suggested there’s the burger of the day, there’s these flights of creativity that Bob has and he’s super into his food. And I think over the years, you might have won the argument. I give it up to you now.
Loren: Thank you. I like to think that Bob is a great cook, great artist working in a medium that, maybe, people don’t even understand. He’s maybe ahead of his time, or perhaps, also, clearly a bad businessman. And, yeah, I think we tend to sympathize with that character because who knows how the movie is gonna do.
Kristen: Hey, and can I just piggy back that by saying I think a lot of the people in the world, and in the Bob’s Burger audience are unsung artists that haven’t been discovered yet. That are probably making really good burgers, or where ever that goes at home that nobody really knows about.
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