Elio: Here are the secrets behind a good Pixar movie, according to producers!

In 2024, after great success, Pixar Studios returned to this month with Elio, family, and a touch with a comedy, with eleven young boys, by mistake, with extroverts.

Sometimes on earth, sometimes within the galaxy, the film is between Olga, Elio’s aunt, who admires her role as a tutor and Elio, who was lonely in solitude after her parents’ disappearance. The pursuit of an identity in which intergalactical and family conflicts blend, always humorous and well -being.

At the Feast of the Annecy 2025 International Animation Festival, we met with directors in Madramin Sharkian and Dome, as well as producers Mary Alisa Drum and Pete Docter, presenting all fashion films at a conference dedicated to the future of the studios.

The opportunity for them to disclose our microphone, the genesis of this new original project, the maturity of its themes, and the question of the human place in the universe.

Inspired by reality!

Born from Adrian Molina (Author of Coco’s script), Elio’s origin is largely inspired by her own youth: “He grew up in a military base and at the moment of loneliness, he sometimes browsing the stars and wondering what he was there. His story met us and everything started from there”Says Mary Alice Drum.

Developed by the two directors, Messine Scarfy and Dome Shi, Adrian Molina’s past is then the story of Elio Solis, a young orphan in a passionate space and is convinced that she would be happier with aliens than with humans. “He is a child who struggles to find his place. A dreamer who stops in a very registered world”Explains the first.

“We, as artists, is what we have experienced in our adolescence.”Adds to Dome, as well as the director of the Red Alarm. “This impression was weird, with the desire to meet the people we are accepted by us. This is what we considered in Elio’s character.”

Thus, the square developed that it became a history of a lonely boy who studies him around and connects to the earth. A topic that was more important at a time when the stage of writing began: “We were in the post-pandemic period,” Continues Dome. “At the time, I think that many people and children around the world felt a little disconnected, a little lonely.”

Directional space!

With its excellent teams and angry places, Disney/Pixar has long been forcing us to dream and travel, both in the oceans, in the air or in the human mind. Thus, the space seems to have been quite a choice that Adrian Molina and train viewers’ experience in the new world.

“Beyond the idea of ​​extrovert involvement, space is the most appropriate choice for us to do this story, because what could be better than the enormous galaxy to cause our character to feel loneliness?” Supports Pete Dox, from there to directors and vice versa.

But with a more optimistic approach and to change their young hero, M grassy Sharfian and Dome Shima wanted to make their vision as warm as possible. “Harley JessipOur Special Effects Director has long worked so that our world is colorful and welcome “The latter reveals. That is why communication is like a disco ball. It was necessary to have a place that Elio would never want to go. “

Teach a person to be from extroverts

“My favorite pixar movies are what makes me ask me what a person is” Recognizes Mary Alice Dram. “And the fact that Elio was friends with alien, it was a great way to show that you can find a friend somewhere. A friend that can be very different from us. In our eyes, it was important to say this during this period whenPeople no longer know how to get in touch with each other. “

“Together with Glodon, he begins to decline the guards and talk about his dark fears.” Directors and producers then acknowledge all the simplicity that created this foreign Ver appearance. “If Elio was a difficult character, Glord appeared like that!” Pitt had a doctor.

My favorite Pixar movies are the one who pushes me to ask me what a person is.

These are these two characters that are clearly opposed to everything and so many overall, the main theme of the film was born: “It is their scenes to write, where both interacts that the subject of the union has emerged.”Continues Dome.

Recipe for a good pixar?

Many cult films have worked in a firm, such as monsters and Cie, Toy Story or Wall-e, we may think that Pete Docter and his thirty-year career are completely in training and yet …

“There is no recipe for success and it is very good. We do not want to bring some kind of ready -made formula.

Dome Shi’s opinion shared by Dome Shi “These are films that tell stories that are very intimate but also very universal with which everyone can identify.”He said. For Madzin Sharfian, this success goes through a clever mix between reality and imagination: “I think that if Elio works so well, it is because the earth looks very specific. So when you get into space, everything seems special.”

While waiting for knowledge of whether it is possible to have a more advanced sequence and research of the planets of the communicative system, you can now find a film in Elio theaters!