"You'd get the kind of performance you'd normally get on a set. For the other actors, "having a performer who was bringing his A game brought everyone's level up, and they'd be bouncing off each other," Smith says. Having Seinfeld hands-on and present - he often telecommuted from New York - proved invaluable, especially in the recording studio. We could rewrite something in an afternoon that would normally take six weeks." The great thing about Jerry being the writer and producer and starring in it was that we could develop things very quickly. "There's a very high standard he brought that he wanted to keep. "He's not precious about where ideas come from, and we had some great banter with him," Smith says. Smith and Steve Hickner, who worked together on the Universal Studios attraction "Shrek 4-D," came to the project in July 2004 and hit it off with Seinfeld from the start. John Clifford/ DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.ĭirectors Simon J.
Next, we'll learn more about the "Bee Movie" directors and the production process. Director Smith says he felt guilty enough to stop eating the sweet bee product. Among the odd facts they learned: If bees didn't pollinate, the resultant imbalance of nature would cause humanity to collapse within four years - and it takes 17 bees to make one teaspoon of honey. The filmmakers and artists also took field trips to apiaries ("bee farms"), studied hundreds of photos and spoke to bee experts. That happened a lot."įor research, he visited a beekeeper - and got stung for his trouble - but gained invaluable knowledge about bee flight patterns and social hierarchy. "You suggest something and it could be weeks before you see it, so you have to remember what you said, and sometimes you forget. "The pace of it is very difficult," he says.
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But coming from TV and stand-up, he never could get used to the slow idea-to-execution process in animation. "As the writer, I know what we're going for, and it makes things easier," Seinfeld says. He defied convention by recording with each of them instead of editing together solo performances. Montgomery (Goodman).ĭuring the casting process, Seinfeld called upon friends like Rock (as a mosquito Barry meets on a windshield), Broderick (as Barry's best friend, Adam) and Patrick Warburton (who plays what Seinfeld calls "a little more aggressive and a little dumber" incarnation of Puddy, his "Seinfeld" character). Benson who ventures outside the hive, where he forges a friendship with a florist (Zellweger), discovers that humans are stealing honey, and takes his indignation to the court system, where he faces off against lawyer Layton T. His final version - the 212th incarnation of the script - centers around an independent-minded bee named Barry B. "There were many versions, probably two and a half years of different ideas and stories until we had one that we felt would work," Seinfeld says.
Spielberg thought it was actually a good idea, called Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks on the spot, and the next thing Seinfeld knew, he had a deal - and had to come up with a movie to go with his title. "Wouldn't it be funny if they made a movie about bees and called it 'Bee Movie'?" Seinfeld mused.
It all started with an offhand comment to Steven Spielberg, with whom Seinfeld was having dinner.
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