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| − | "''It's 2D and they come out of the water, and they're in our world... and there's like people out there like 'where are we?' There's SpongeBob and Patrick and Mr. Krabs... and then they find out that there's a bad guy that stole the Krabby Patty and they have to transform into life-sized superheros which is amazing... And if you can picture each one has their own superpower..."<ref name="nerdist">{{RefArticle|firstname=Katie|lastname=Levine|year=2014|url=http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/chewin-it-61-mike-mitchell/|title=Mike Mitchell interview - forward to 1:25|publisher=Nerdist|accessed=28 May 2014}}</ref> |
+ | "''It's 2D and they come out of the water, and they're in our world... and there's like people out there like 'where are we?' There's SpongeBob and Patrick and Mr. Krabs... and then they find out that there's a bad guy that stole the Krabby Patty and they have to transform into life-sized superheros which is amazing... And if you can picture each one has their own superpower..."<ref name="nerdist">{{RefArticle|firstname=Katie|lastname=Levine|year=2014|url=http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/chewin-it-61-mike-mitchell/|title=Mike Mitchell interview - forward to 1:25|publisher=Nerdist|accessed=28 May 2014}}</ref>'' |
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Revision as of 04:16, 22 October 2014
This is a production article for the SpongeBob SquarePants film, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which aired on February 6, 2015.
Development
The movie is produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation, and will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Storyline
The official SpongeBob SquarePants Movie website states the plot as:
| “ | SpongeBob SquarePants, the world’s favorite sea dwelling invertebrate, comes ashore to our world for his most super-heroic adventure yet. | ” |
— The official website
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From cast and crew interviews, we can say the storyline of the movie entails SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy and Plankton going to find a stolen recipe which takes them to the real world. There they tangle with a pirate who possesses a book which makes what ever he writes in it come true. SpongeBob and co. manage to get hold of the book and turn into superheroes to fight the pirate.[1]
Cast and crew members have provided further insight into the plot of the movie, as well as their views on how successful the movie will be:
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown (who plays Mr. Krabs) revealed a hint as to how the characters would be involved in the movie:
"Goodness, that one also the future of the free world hinges on what I have to say about it so I can’t really say much about it except that we’re all on an adventure this time, Squidward, Patrick, Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob, Plankton and Sandy. We’re all in it together this time rather than just being a buddy movie like the first movie. It’s very funny I have to say."[2]
Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell, one of the Directors of the movie, made the following statement about the movie's storyline:
"It's 2D and they come out of the water, and they're in our world... and there's like people out there like 'where are we?' There's SpongeBob and Patrick and Mr. Krabs... and then they find out that there's a bad guy that stole the Krabby Patty and they have to transform into life-sized superheros which is amazing... And if you can picture each one has their own superpower..."[3]
Tom Kenny
Tom Kenny (who plays SpongeBob) gave his insight and views into the movie in an interview with the Saturday Morning Rewind Podcast. Here are his thoughts:
"We've been hard at work on the second SpongeBob movie. The first one was years ago, 2007 [2004] or something, a long time ago. And it did well, but Steve Hillenburg, much to the consternation of executives, was not ready to make another SpongeBob movie, just didn't think that he had a story that warranted the longer running time and all that. You've got to know Steve Hillenburg, he doesn't think like anybody else in show business. Even when he had no money he didn't care about money. The integrity of the product is so important to him, so he didn't want to do another movie for no reason. So years later he said, “OK, I've got a story that I think is worth spending 90 minutes on”. And he pitched it to Nickelodeon. So yeah, we've got it coming out.
Paramount has this newly activated animation division and we are their first film that they're doing, so there's kind of a lot riding on it, it makes me a little nervous. I was born nervous. So we're having a lot of fun and [there's] all the original cast and some fun drop-in guest stars.
[…]
[The first movie] was a lot of fun and it's kind of a different world now. Just in that short, whatever it is, 7 years [10 years], the world has changed so much in that SpongeBob wasn't nearly as global then as he is now. Now he's really managed to blanket the Earth, he's pretty much in every country, and that wasn't quite the case in 2007 [2004]. So he's known in parts of the world now that he was not 7 years ago and I think it's going to be really exciting to see what happens with the movie. Also the way you sell a movie with social media and all that was not nearly in place then like it is now.
The fun thing is that when you're doing a character like SpongeBob and cartoon characters in general you don't notice the passage of time. It doesn't seem like 7 years ago that we did the last SpongeBob movie because I've never stopped doing SpongeBob. You sort of lose track of time, in a good way. You think it was 6 months ago we were doing that last movie then you realise it was 7 years."[4]
Animation
Viacom president and CEO Philippe Dauman said on hollywoodreporter.com:
"We will be releasing a SpongeBob movie at the end of 2014, which will serve to start off or be one of our films that starts off our new animation effort"[5] Of course, we now know the movie will be released on February 6, 2015.[6]
On 28 January, 2014, Vincent Waller confirmed animation will be handled with the animation company "Rough Draft Studios"[7] He further posted "We're getting animation back that is looking terrific."[8]Paul Tibbitt was asked on Twitter about what animation techniques would be used for which he replied: "[I] don't wanna spoil anything but [it's] mostly 2D."[9]
In March 2014, Paramount screened live-action footage from the film during the National Association of Theatre Owners' CinemaCon. News websites report that the film would be CGI-animated...[10]The Internet Movie Database staff commented: "The very brief footage from tonight's presentation suggested [it wouldn't be all 2D animated] – it looked as though this was a CGI/live-action hybrid akin to Alvin and the Chipmunks, Yogi Bear, The Smurfs, etc."[11]
Filming
On July 11, 2013, it was announced that the film will start filming for the live action scenes in the Savannah area in Georgia in September, October and November 2013 for approximately 40 days.[12] City of Savannah Film Services director Jay Self said "we are very excited to be working with Paramount [Pictures] on this project [...] We know from experience how valuable the investment and exposure generated by a project like this can be for our community."[13]
Music
The original score for the movie is being composed by John Debney.[14]
San Diego Comic Con 2014
See here for highlights of the panel hosted by Tom Kenny.
Patrick Star (as Mr. Superawesomeness), SpongeBob SquarePants (as The Invincibubble), Squidward Tentacles (as Sour Note), and Mr. Krabs (as Sir Pinch-A-Lot), in 'SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water.'(Photo: Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Animation)
Crucial details of the movie were revealed at the San Diego Comic Con 2014.
To start with, character designs for the movie were revealed. These depict the design of SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward and Mr. Krabs once they exit the water later in the film (pictured right).[15]
At the convention, www.usatoday.com managed to gain exclusive interviews with Tom Kenny and director of the movie, Paul Tibbitt:
In the interview with Tom Kenny, he expressed the "different" world the characters are going into:
"It's a bold new world where no Sponge has gone before. I'm still getting used to it. You've seen someone in a certain way for so long... It's just really different."
"It's not like SpongeBob has gone through any personality rewiring, there's no reboot. Daniel Craig will not be voicing him, it's just a very different likeness."
Similarly, director Paul Tibbitt expresses his take on the story:
"It's the big climax of the movie. They all come to shore in our world. And they transform themselves into an Avengers-type team to do battle. Their world is in jeopardy."
"I don't know if these guys could take out Thor and The Hulk, but they might give them a run for their money."
Tom Kenny announced the movie on Thursday 24th July, with the movie's trailer shortly following that announcement.
References
- ^ Team, The MovieWeb. (2014) "'Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' Comic-Con 2014 Panel Video". MovieWeb. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ Topel, Fred. (2014) "Exclusive Interview: Clancy Brown on Homefront". Crave Online. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ^ Levine, Katie. (2014) "Mike Mitchell interview - forward to 1:25". Nerdist. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ Nightville, Tim. (2014) "Tom Kenny interview 2 (Spongebob Squarepants, Clarence, Shakes the Clown, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Adventure Time)". Saturday Morning Rewind. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ Szalai, Georg. (2012) "Paramount to Release 'SpongeBob' Movie in Late 2014". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Sneider, Jeff. (2014) "Paramount Avoids ‘Fifty Shades’ by Moving Up ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ Sequel". The Wrap. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Waller, Vincent. (2014) "It will be animated by Rough Draft". Vincent Waller. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ Waller, Vincent. (2014) "Vincent Waller's tweets". Vincent Waller. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Tibbitt, Paul. (2013) ""mostly 2D"". Paul Tibbitt. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Hammond, Pete. (2014) "CinemaCon news on the movie". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Subers, Ray. (2014) "IMDB CinemaCon coverage". IMDB. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Unknown, Unknown. (2013) "SpongeBob sequel to film in Savannah". Online Athens. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ^ Gallagher, Brian. (2013) "'The Spongebob Squarepants Movie 2' Sets Up Shop in Savannah, Georgia". MovieWeb. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ Film Music, Reporter. (2013) "John Debney scores the music". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Alexander, Bryan. (2014) "Exclusive peek at SpongeBob in 'Sponge Out of Water'". USA Today. Retrieved 25 July 2014.