Why ‘Wish’ Filmmakers Chose the Same Aspect Ratio as ‘Sleeping Beauty’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Five years ago, while chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios Jennifer Lee was finishing work on “Frozen II,” she mentioned to her co-director, Chris Buck, that the studio’s 100th anniversary was coming up — and asked whether he’d want to be involved in any projects pegged to the anniversary?They didn’t have any idea what that animated feature would be but they knew that “we wanted original characters, story and music,” says Buck.
They began gathering stills from every animated feature the studio had done and pinned them to a bulletin board. They looked at the breadth of colors and styles.
From “Pinocchio’s” Jiminy Cricket to “The Princess and the Frog’s” Tiana to Judy Hopps in “Zootopia,” one thing was apparent — that these and many other characters had all made wishes on stars. “It feels very obvious.
Of course, these characters are wishing on the stars. But it wasn’t until that moment we said, it’s going to be about wishing.
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