Loren Bouchard, Bernard Derriman & Nora Smith Interview: The Bob's Burgers Movie
After 11 years and 12 seasons, the beloved Belcher family have finally made it to the big screen in The Bob's Burgers Movie. Extrapolating on Loren Bouchard's long-running animated comedy series, Bob's Burgers, the film focuses on the Belchers' reaction to a large sinkhole ruining their summer plans and endangering their already precarious family business.
The Bob's Burgers Movie has already received glowing reviews, proving that the creative team know how to juggle both a series and a film while making both entertaining. And juggle is exactly what they had to do, as creator Bouchard brought on screenwriter Nora Smith and supervising director Bernard Derriman to write and direct the movie version respectively. In this way, nothing fans adore about the show is lost in the translation to the big screen thanks to original team being onboard.
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Screen Rant spoke with the creative team behind The Bob's Burgers Movie, sharing their individual experiences discovering they have a phenomenon on their hands and recounting how the live shows paved the way for the animated movie event of the summer.
Screen Rant: Congratulations. We're here. Bob's Burgers finally coming to the big screen. Tell me about this journey. When did this idea first come up? And how has the journey been to just get here?
Loren Bouchard: I think the idea came up somewhat early days, and not like anyone offered. No one said, «Hey, you want to do a Bob's Movie?» It was more like, «What if you got to do a movie?» And I think we were actually very nervous about it; scared of the question and mostly avoided it and didn't talk about it for years.
It was really hard to just do the series, so we
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