In conversation with Locksmith Animation: Ron's Gone Wrong and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon traces the story of Locksmith Animation. Of how it came to life in 2014 with ambitions to make major animated films in the UK, and the seven year, very bumpy path to Ron's Gone Wrong. Simon is joined by four of the Locksmith team: Sarah Smith, Peter Baynham, JP Vine and Octavio E Rodriguez. Between them, they chart the challenges of different studio partners, of making a film on difficult internet connections, and a whole lot more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.0	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:08.0	Sorry about that. I literally had to fly in from outer space.
0:12.0	Come with me.
0:14.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:18.0	And movies. Movies that had stories. That the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning
0:24.3	we would be honored if you would join us hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with simon brew i am simon brew
0:37.3	as always. There's
0:37.8	absolutely everything you need to know about me. The end of the podcast though, well title gives
0:42.1	this one away. I'm here to talk of the story of film and I tend to talk about production stories,
0:46.8	marketing stories, development stories, behind the scene stuff really, all the things that go to
0:51.1	make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
0:56.2	This particular episode though, well, it's one of my occasional special episodes of film stories where I bring in filmmakers to talk about a project they've been involved with.
1:05.4	And this one's really been building up for quite a while.
1:09.5	So we start really back in 2014, which was when a company
1:15.0	by the name of Locksmith Animation came into existence. Now Locksmith got its name from its co-founder,
1:21.2	Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart, a director and producer who met working at Ard during their time at Ardman. Elizabeth Murdoch came in as a co-founder as well.
1:30.9	And it launched with the idea of making high-end digitally animated films in the UK, that this was generally the domain of Hollywood or illumination in France or, you know, the the pixels people like that and the idea was could
1:46.2	we build something in the UK to rival the quality and the skill of what they were putting out over in
1:52.1	the States so it's been quite a journey really to get this far I'm going to touch on this with
1:58.7	four different filmmakers throughout the course of this
2:00.8	podcast that initially in 2016, Locksmith did a deal with Paramount Pictures and Paramount was going to
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