Coming into a franchise as storied as the Shrek series, director Joel Crawford was thrilled at the opportunity to show a new side of the iconic Puss in Boots.
A sequel to the 2011 Puss in Boots film, DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish takes place after Shrek Forever After, when Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) is accidentally killed by a bell and discovers he is down to his ninth, and final, life.
After a brush with a mysterious wolf who is determined to take his last life, Puss decides to live the rest of his life in hiding.
However, he soon learns about a wishing star that could help them get his lives back. Crawford wanted to take the story of Puss in Boots into a darker direction than the other films in the Shrek franchise, using inspiration from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. DEADLINE: What was the inspiration for the story of the new Puss in Boots movie? JOEL CRAWFORD: It definitely took a while to find the right story for the next chapter of Puss in Boots.
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