An Oscar-nominated screenwriter known for such films as The City of Lost Children and Amélie, Guillaume Laurant found an exciting introduction to the world of animation in Jérémy Clapin’s I Lost My…
that the novel would be impossible to adapt into a film. “It took 10 years for an animation producer to reach out and tell me, ‘You know what? If we use an animation approach, your book could be adaptable.’ I hadn’t even imagined how this idea of the hand could be transposed in visual terms,” the screenwriter says.
Pairing with Clapin and producer Marc du Pontavice on the animated film, Laurant found the process fascinating—first of all, because this was the first time he would attempt an adaptation of his own prose. Secondly, there was the fact that the writing process on an animated feature is markedly different from the one he was used to on live-action features. “As a process, it’s much longer. You basically work at the same time on the script, as you do production. There aren’t separate stages, so I was present to a much greater extent at the beginning of this,” the writer notes.“What we needed to do at the onset was solving the issue of the axis.
For Laurant, the experience of crafting a world tailored for animation was equally profound. An imaginative visual thinker, the screenwriter recognized while working on this project that his love of creating new worlds through the words he puts on the page makes him a perfect fit for a medium he had never before considered working in.
“It was a true discovery for me. I believe that in traditional, [live-action] cinema, we have a hard time creating stories that are detached from reality, and from the difficulty and heaviness of everyday reality,” he says. “Whereas when we switch to animation, we are immediately immersed in a new world. This new world allows us to be very detached, and to create anything we want.
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