“It was very important that we honored the characters and also have the same sense of humor that you see in the movies, the same tone,” said Meledandri, who also made sure the voices of other characters - Steve Carrell as super-villain Gru, in particular - were the same as in the film. Nearly 20 minutes of new animated footage were created for the attraction, in which visitors are transformed into Minions themselves, by the magic of 3D video simulation. “But of all the extensions of 'Despicable Me,' I think that modelizing these characters with a theme park attraction may be the most exciting for us beyond doing the movie,” he added, ahead of the first day of “Despicable Me Minion Mayhem” on Saturday. “It was not something we had thought about,” Chris Meledandri, the head of Illumination Entertainment, told AFP. The idea came from Steve Burke, the head of NBCUniversal, after the success of the first “Despicable Me” film in 2010. Since 2012 the Minions, a huge source of related products, have had a ride dedicated to them at Universal's theme park in Orlando, Florida.Īnd this coming weekend they will get the Tinseltown treatment in Hollywood itself, with a special “yellow carpet” presentation for a ride twice as big as the Florida one, and equipped with the latest cutting-edge technology. To prove it, Paris studio Illumination Entertainment is giving them their own film, “The Minions,” due out in July 2015, before a third “Despicable Me”instalment in 2017. ”The Minions - cute little yellow characters who speak amusing gibberish - have emerged as stars in their own right from the two movies, which have earned $1.5 billion worldwide. LOS ANGELES: Riding high on the global success of “Despicable Me,” the films' makers have teamed up with theme park engineers to produce a tourist ride designed to immerse visitors in “Minion Mayhem.
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