Interview with Eagle vs. Shark director Taika Waititi
Posted on Friday, June 15th, 2007 by Peter Sciretta
On Monday June 4th we got the chance to sit down with Eagle vs. Shark writer/director Taika Waititi. We LOVED his film when we saw it at Sundance, and had a full list of questions about Waititi’s hilarious movie.
[audio:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/interviews/eaglevssharkinterview.mp3]
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Time-code Chapter Guide:
0:25 The Origin of the Idea
2:45 Judah Friedlander as Jarood at the Sundance Labs
4:00 Casting His Friends
4:30 The Evolution of the Script
5:40 The DVD Release and Deleted Scenes
6:05 The Use of Stop-motion Animation
8:05 Stop-Animation Parallels The Story
8:55 The Creative Production Design
10:00 The World: “It’s like nothing was invented after 1989″
10:50 Addressing Comparisons to Napoleon Dynamite
13:15 Taika Waititi’s Top Five Movies of the Moment
15:00 Taika’s Cameo as the dead brother Gordon
15:45 Jarood’s Cheetah Painting: Populating the world with Animals
17:00 Lily’s attraction to Jarood
20:15 Symbolism: The Wheel Chairs?
22:30 The availability of Taika’s short film Two Cars, One Night
23:00 Taika’s Feature Film adaptation
23:30 Title: Volcano or Choice?
24:35 Taika’s Adaptation of Wild Pork and Wildcrest
26:45 Taika’s Other project about a Cop who wants to be a Hero
28:00 Jarood’s Father’s disability? “He’s an emotional cripple”
