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Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. Jonathan Robert Aibel (born August 6, 1969 in Demarest, New Jersey) and Glenn Todd Berger (born August 26, 1969 in Smithtown, New York) are American screenwriters and producers, who are best known for writing the Kung Fu Panda movies, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Trolls, and its sequel Trolls World ...
Nov 8, 2016 · At the film’s press day, screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about what they started this story with, deciding on the songs, their...
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Jonathan:It’s interesting. The research that was done on the movie was really about happiness. It was more of a thematic research than any sort of Troll – or hair – research. Glenn:I know that Kendal Cronkhite, the Production Designer, did a lot of research into 70s aesthetics, Scandinavian aesthetic, and that kind of stuff. But on our side of thin...
Glenn:So much fun. It was the first time we’ve ever done something like this, where, in the writing, we had Spotify playlists from different eras. Early on there was a creative decision, collectively, that the music would only be from the 70s. But at a certain point we realized that was unnecessarily limiting. Jonathan: It was probably about the ti...
Glenn:This is a joke I once used and it continues to be true: the secret of our relationship is 20-something years of us going “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” Jonathan:Hey, stop with the cursing! Glenn:It’s a relationship completely untested by adversity! We’ve been lucky. We moved out to L.A. and got work within three months. And we’ve rarely been out of work...
Jonathan:The advice we often give is that people who say they want to be writers really just need to be writing. It seems sort of self-explanatory, but we’ve seen people who like being able to say that they’ve written and like to say “I’m a writer” but don’t actually like sitting down in the morning, firing up their computer and starting to write. ...
Producer: Kung Fu Panda. Jonathan Aibel was born in Demarest, New Jersey, USA. Jonathan is a producer and writer, known for Kung Fu Panda (2008), King of the Hill (1997) and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011).
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Oct 31, 2016 · It’s been more than ten years since writing duo Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger first sat down to cinematically explore a whole new world with the KUNG FU PANDA series. However, with their latest innovative creation, TROLLS, they are showing no signs of slowing down their world-building practices.
Jan 28, 2016 · Jonathan Aibel: Probably the hardest moment was figuring out what happens when Po’s father arrives and what that next scene was. Glenn Berger: Not the reunion moment at the restaurant but the next. Jonathan Aibel: We had scenes where Po’s father was a bit of a simple farmer who came to visit.
May 27, 2011 · In this half of the interview, Berger and Aibel discuss how working relationship, the contrast in working in animation vs. live action and their next project.
