Screenwriter Jonathan Aibel discusses the making of a surprisingly complicated Dreamworks movie ‘Trolls: World Tour’: “We certainly didn’t say, ‘Let’s make a movie about cultural appropriation”
in 2016, the goal was simple. “When Jeffrey Katzenberg ran the studio, he kept saying, ‘We need something bigger. I want something bigger,’” Aibel explains over the phone. “We were thinking, ‘We like music other than just pop music. Could there be a world in which we start finding out there are other kinds of music?'”It was probably right as we were releasing the first one.
I think it just came about because growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s rock that was there. It was something I liked. It felt like if you were going to meet some kick-ass trolls, they would be your hard rock trolls. In this universe, that kind of makes sense. Of course, I should say it’s done with love. It’s not to make rock the evil genre of music, because I personally have a huge fondness for it.
When you guys were coming up with the story, did you have any inkling you’d be working with legends likeWe definitely were hoping, but you never know. So we wrote the king and queen and were hoping, “there’re so many people you can get, there’s so much funk royalty,” to be in the movie. Then it becomes someone else’s problem in a way. Who’s available? Who’s interested? Who can even get to a recording studio? There’s all that technical stuff.
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