‘The Tomorrow War’ Director Chris McKay on Selling the Film to Amazon and His Hopes to Make ‘Nightwing’

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While it’s not uncommon for an animation director to make the leap into live-action filmmaking, it is rather rare for that first at bat to be a massive sci-fi blockbuster that isn’t bas…

You’ve been working in animation for so long. How did you decide that this was going to be the project that you would direct in live-action?

When you’re directing actors in an animated movie, sometimes you’ve got two actors playing off of each other, but more often than not, it’s just the one actor who’s standing in front of a music stand and a microphone, and you and that actor are creating this world. When you’re on a live-action set for something like this, where there are no whitespikes or explosions, you are using the same kind of imaginative resources that you are bringing to the table in a voiceover booth.

Obviously, people told me what their intentions were. This was would this have been December or January or something like that, so we were nearly finished with the movie, and talking about release dates. Because of where we’re at with COVID, I knew the writing on the wall. We were going to have to entertain some options. We’d had screenings in movie theaters from a test audience standpoint. The last one was probably in end of September, maybe beginning of October.

It’s tough to answer that question. There’s things that you want, and there’s the realities of the world. I’m just hoping that people will crank their sound up, watch it on the biggest TV they can possibly find, bring your neighbors over so they don’t get mad at you because you crank the movie up, and try to watch it with as many people as you can in your house. It is a movie that’s meant to be experienced with with people.

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Ive seen worse, but its the type of movie where if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all.

buddboetticher please dear god if you get a chance to make the Nightwing movie, just 2 things: 1. White eyes 2. Do NOT rename him Rick Grayson.

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