“A lot of Pixar films are based on personal experiences,” says Onward director Dan Scanlon at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event. “This might be more blatantly autobiographical in some ways.”That’s not to say that Scanlon descended from elves.
Rather, his movie follows two brothers – the younger Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) and older Barley Lightfoot (Chris Pratt) — who’ve lost their father young in life.
All they want is to spend another day with him, and that moment arrives.Scanlon lost his dad at a very young age with his older brother becoming a big paternal figure in his life.He did think of rooting the story in human characters, but “we needed a main way to bring the father back for a day.
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