a young protagonist who you know was needing something in in their lives and then this
magical creature comes and and fills that void with them and so i thought there was just so
many similarities about unconditional love and about um you know loving things that are different
and and having differences actually be the thing that raise you up uh in a film so i
you know it was the sort of baseline story and themes that i that i loved quite a bit action
the goal was to make a movie that adults would enjoy and that kids would love as well so
it's pretty much you know we wanted to make it an all audience thing i think it's got
heart it's got humor it's got some you know jokes for adults and some jokes for kids but
i think the goal was always to create a version of a film where parents are going
to enjoy it as much as kids we thought it was really important just to keep the basic idea
of unconditional love between you know in this case a young girl and her dog but
really a larger sense of an unconditional love with community and with neighbors and with friends
i think it's important to believe in a little magic just you know in in general i think magic
for us just represented possibility and um i think when people feel like things are possible
just as a community it sort of raises the whole community up as individuals it raises it up
um and so us putting this kind of layer of magic i think just be it just represents the
type of miracles that are possible when people are feeling united and you know in a loving way
once we had um darby camp who we think is just the most amazing emily elizabeth
it was great just surrounding her with amazing comic talent and actors jack whitehall who's a
amazing british comic the legendary john cleese we got to play bridwell
and then we cast just in the neighborhood who's who of some of my favorite actors growing up david
alan greer is the superintendent tony hale is the villain in our piece keenan thompson plays the vet
rosie perez came in for a day and so when you when you watch the movie there there's always
some great comedic talent that that people know that are kind of playing with those
main characters throughout the movie we had so many um doggy influencers on set that day
and they were they were all amazing i think i took a picture with every single dog maybe
um and they were they were just really terrific and they have giant uh social media following
and and so it's nice when you realize oh my god this love between humans and pets are so
strong and here we have like some of the top uh influencers you know in the country there
and so we did put them in the movie they actually played some of the crowd
and so they were in there with their pets which was quite nice the partnership with
scholastic has just been amazing um you know this the clifford is their mascot for the whole company
and everybody from dick robertson and yoli lee chazy they were just incredible to work with
um fully supportive um you know they they this is such an iconic character for them
that um and and having them on set and producing with us has been has been great they've just been
an amazing partner it's phenomenal to see how a big budget film like clifford the big red dog
um just handles itself around a huge big city like new york city i was born in new jersey myself
and i don't know like to me new york is a tough place uh just to get around let alone having to
like move a big animal uh such as a film crew seeing how a seasoned director like walter becker
uh handles himself in such a big city with a big crew like this uh is reminiscent of his
other films uh such as one of the sequels for uh alvin the chipmunks it was called i believe a road
chip or something like that or um it was a road trip or something like that uh type of film and
it's really cool to see him use you know the cg characters and bring them into the live action
world which is what i got a kick out of watching here i did get to see this film with my family
and we highly enjoyed it it was really good and well uh worth watching on paramount plus and uh
and doing the whole purchasing on paramount plus so it's really cool to see this early before going
into theaters and everything we got to see it at home and we had so much fun with this film
me and my wife relate to it very much so with the scholastic books and it's so cool to see
you know the scholastic uh books coming into the big screen and everything like that and working
closely with a walter becker on this film let me know down in the comments down below uh what
your favorite uh thing is here on this behind the scenes for clifford and let me know have you seen
clifford the big red dog cartoon show or have you read the books uh like all of us as well
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