He’s just a very sweet, gregarious guy, so it smoothed it out very quickly because we started having fun with Terry. He was doing Earl from the perspective of Terry Crews. He’s such a funny guy and he sort of occupied the character in his own way, so he wasn’t doing a Mr. He was such a nice, sweet, kind human being, so when he wasn’t available to do the second film, it was definitely a bummer, but very quickly our casting agent (and Chris and Phil) helped us get Terry on board. But The A-Team was my life when I was a kid, so when I got to meet Mr. Working in Hollywood, you meet a lot of actors and a lot of celebrities. T wouldn’t be coming back for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2? It was a very organic thing coming from our experience on the first film. So we presented that to the studio and they bought into it. Those two things were very organic to our internal conversations. We cut both of those ideas from film one because we didn’t have the time for it, so going into Cloudy 2 we very quickly embraced that storyline for Flint and the hook that the food has become sentient. We had a whole monster-movie ending and a version of Cloudy 1 where Flint actually met one of his heroes, a guy named Vance LaFleur, and went off to Iceland and had the mentorship, adolescent experience that we ended up doing in the second movie. where we started, we had a completely different ending for Cloudy 1. For me, it was about a year and a half after I came off of the first movie, and probably about four or five months after it was released in theaters.ĭid the studio have a lot of input on ideas when you started, and how much influence did they have over the final product? I was over in England working on Arthur Christmas when I got the phone call that they were serious about making a sequel. How soon after the release of the first film did you know you’d be coming back for a sequel? Paradesat down with Pearn to discuss the film, how he escaped the pitfalls of most sequels, sentient food, and the power of female-driven stories. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a ton of fun and deserves another look.
The movie (which arrives on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD tomorrow) features more of the same gorgeous animation as the first film as well as tons of cleverly named food creatures, and nearly all the other original cast members in place.
Kris Pearn served as Head of Story for 2009’s animated hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but when directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were busy with a full docket of films at the time Sony Pictures decided to move forward with a Cloudy… sequel, Kris Pearn (and his co-director Cody Cameron) stepped up to direct Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 arrives on Blu-ray & DVD tomorrow!