Why The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer Wanted to Direct ‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’

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“Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” are back.Not the beloved syndicated television series, which ran for three seasons and 65 episodes from 1989 to 1990 as part of the Disney Afternoon weekday programming block, mind you, but the live-action/animated adventure directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer.

This new movie takes place in a world where Chip (John Mulaney) and Dale (Andy Samberg) were stars of that long-ago TV show and have now grown apart, improbably brought together to solve a mystery that personally impacts their cartoon world (Monterey Jack, now voiced by Eric Bana, is missing).

It’s a wild, irreverent world that Schaffer and his collaborators have conjured (if you’ve been online, you’ve seen Tim Robinson’s Ugly Sonic in action).TheWrap spoke to Schaffer about what the appeal of the movie was for him, how he managed to clear all of the characters that show up in the movie (don’t worry, we don’t ruin anything), whether or not the movie takes place in the same world as 1988’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and whether or not Chip was originally going to be animated in a more traditional, hand-drawn style.What was the appeal of ‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ for you?I mean, there were so many different things that were appealing to me about it.

One, let’s say on a technical level, I was just excited to learn everything you’d learn by making this movie, which means not just learning how to make an animated movie, because that’s the layer on top of it.