So just the sticky-ness of that premise I think has been really a big reason people have gravitated towards it. It’s such a simple concept for starters - it’s classic wish fulfilment about these two best friends, wildly imaginative kids who hypnotize their terrible principal and turn him into their comic book creation. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories, so he spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hall every day. You said you wished you had come up with the idea for Captain Underpants yourself, what is it about the characters and the stories that you think is so interesting? Learn about Dav's early years As a child, Dav Pilkey was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. The books are actually very smart, they are subversive and there is actually a lot more going on under the surface of those things, and the movie as well. The visuals are really playful and the actors brought a ton of different kind of humour to the table, too. You can’t really do a Captain Underpants movie without having a little bit of that in there - and honestly it is part of the fun of it - but we really did try to round out the movie as a character-based comedy, specifically. We held ourselves to a very high standard with our potty-humour jokes, and really didn’t opt to go there in less the jokes were truly hilarious. We actually had countless conversations about the toilet humour. How did you decide what amount of toilet-humour was the right amount? Hopefully we’ve managed to have to movie play to multiple levels in audiences. I think there is plenty there for the younger audiences and it is a very physical comedy. And then we have for kids, this is about a middle-aged man running around in his underpants wearing a curtain as a cape and thinking he’s a superhero when he actually has zero powers other than being super dumb. those guys all have a huge fan base in their 20s and 30s. ![]() Our cast was a huge part of that too, and the decision-making of hiring Ed Helms and Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch and Jordan Peele and Nick Kroll. ![]() The way we approached that is having someone like (Nicholas) Stoller writing the screenplay - who comes from a more adult live-action comedy background - as a good way to elevate the material for an older audience. He also lent his voice to the animated film Storks and the series Bob's Burgers.I think normally we wouldn’t be going after 20-somethings or 30-somethings, but in this case there is such a big nostalgia factor for the books that we wanted to target that group but also really target the kids that are just learning to read now and are getting introduced to the books and hopefully bring new people to the movie who have never come in contact with the books either. Peele is best known for his role in Key and Peele and also wrote and directed Get Out. Although Melvin is known for being a top student in their school, he is also notorious for being a tattletale, always scheming to get George and Harold in trouble. Jordan Peele voices George and Harold’s nemesis, Melvin. Image Credit: Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic DreamWorks Animation Middleditch is known best known for his role in Silicon Valley, but he has lent his voice to the comedy cartoon Henchmen. Harold is the yin to George’s yang, as he must help George in trying to tame their wacky principal, whom they hypnotized into becoming Captain Underpants. ![]() Image Credit: Steve Jennings/WireImage DreamWorks Animation Schaal also has voiced such animated characters as Trixie in Toy Story 3, the witches in Shrek Forever After and Mabel Pines in Gravity Falls. Although in the books the character is known for being the school’s harsh secretary, in the film Schaal’s Edith is the love interest of Mr. Last Man on Earth's Kristen Schaal lends her voice to the film as lunch lady Edith Anthrope. Image Credit: Barry King/Getty Images DreamWorks Animation
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