Now we knew that we were going to have the fairy tale world as a backdrop in Puss in Boots, we wanted to make sure we didn’t end up just parodying them. It just seemed like an idea that had run its course as a comedy engine. But I think even by the end of the third one, I’d had it with that! Not only had Shrek done it to death, but I saw it creeping up in other pictures being made. It was great fun, and such a great playground. When I was working on the first three Shrek films, we were all very much in the mode of parodying every fairy tale we could possibly think of. That was really our biggest challenge, making sure we were doing something different this time. Did you feel like you had to be faithful to those films in any way? Did you feel constrained by them? Puss in Boots obviously grew out of the very successful Shrek films. So you’ve had quite a bit of experience playing around with fairy tales. On the eve of the film’s release, Fantasy Magazine had a chance to talk with Miller about Puss’ new adventures and what it was like to revisit his fantastical world. A graduate of the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, Miller also worked as a story artist on the first DreamWorks CG film Antz and is the voice of the penguin Kowalski in the popular Madagascar films. Not just a spin-off from previous films, this movie is a prequel, and tells the story of how Puss came to don those oversized boots and claw out his own legend.Ĭhris Miller, the director of Puss in Boots, has a long association with the fairy tale franchise, beginning with his role as story artist (and actor) on the first Shrek film, then as head of story on the second, and finally as co-director of the Shrek the Third with Raman Hui.
Equal parts rogue and hero, and played with feline gravitas by Antonio Banderas, Puss finally has an adventure of his own in the new film aptly titled Puss in Boots.
One of the most popular characters in recent animation history is the swashbuckler Puss in Boots from DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek films.
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