Preston Mutanga has found fame as a teen wunderkind whose creativity resulted in the ultimate gig.
While other teens were crowding into movie theaters to watch this summer’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the 14-year-old was reveling in the fact that he got to work on the movie’s animation, after catching the eye of those behind the film thanks to a fan project he created. Mutanga told CNN that even as a youngster, he was in love with animation. “Pixar movies were what mainly inspired me because I watched them a lot and they were easily accessible for me,” he said.
We just saw a fan who did an amazing fan trailer, and then we reached out and found out that he was a 14-year-old kid, and we’re like, ‘Well, is it legal?’” Kemp Powers, a co-director on the film, told CNN. “‘Can we actually work out some way to hire this kid to do it?’ Because I mean, the proof is in the pudding.” It was a full-circle moment for Mutanga, who said he was around six or seven years old when “The Lego Movie” came out in 2014 and inspired him to get into animation.
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