Garth Jennings Interview: The director of The Hitchhiker’s Guide The Galaxy and Son Of Rambow talks up his new film, the animated feature ‘Sing’.
We first caught the latest feature animation from Illumination and Universal Pictures Sing at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and immediately fell in love with it. Well, this week the film opens in UK cinemas after a very successful run in the Unites States over the Christmas period. Well, this week we caught up with the film’s very talented writer/ director Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Son Of Rambow) in London to chat about working on the film, his choice to take on a big animation, moving to Paris for five years to make it, and much more. Check out our Garth Jennings interview below.
Sing is essentially a movie musical full of modern jukebox classics as sung by zoo animals – continuously. It’s brilliant (read more over on our original post of the review). Here’s the plot.
Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock porcupine.
Garth Jennings also has a history in music video making (as one half of Hammer and Tongs – making the vids for the likes of Coffee and TV by Blur and ‘Driftwood’ for Travis), and his love for music is so evident here.
Watch our interview with Garth in the player below.
Sing opens across the country on Friday 27th January, 2017. We suggest you get down to see it at your earliest opportunity.
