We felt there was a responsibility to say something with that. “We know this is the first time many kids are going to see a spy movie. “I think it’s because of the message we had,” Bruno said. Soon afterward, he joined the Spies in Disguise cast. “We looked back to the heroes we had growing up, and Will Smith was one of them.” Smith agreed to a meeting, much to the delighted directors’ surprise. “We knew we had to have somebody who could stand up against characters like James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt,” Bruno said. Smith was always at the top of the directors’ list to voice Lance. “For as much fun and action as it has, it also has a great, heartfelt message behind it.” “At its heart, this is a story about an odd couple who must save each other in order to save the world,” explained Quane. We built off that idea and asked, ‘What would be more annoying than a pigeon interrupting a spy’s lunch? If the spy got turned into a pigeon.’”įor the last six years, Bruno and Quane have been shaping that idea into a feature-length film, which centers on two characters: spy Lance Sterling (voice of Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (voice of Tom Holland). “It had a simple, funny idea of a spy trying to have lunch and a pigeon getting in his way. “Originally there was a short called Pigeon: Impossible by Louis Martell,” Quane said. Before your family flocks to the local movie theater to see Spies in Disguise on Christmas Day, we chatted with directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane and voice actor Masi Oka about the inspiration behind the animated adventure from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.
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