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Disney+ and Marvel's Kate Herron talks to io9 about Miss Minutes, major sci-fi influences, and filming a world out of time.
Loki Director Kate Herron Takes Us Inside the Timey-Wimey Influences of the TVA
When confronted with a bureaucratic group of time guardians who are part church, part cop, and all outside known time, where do you even begin to start framing that as a setting for a television show? For Disney+ and Marvelâs Loki director Kate Herron, the answer was simple: throwback to iconic sci-fi hits, with a bit of a personal twist.
âI think when I pitched the studio, I loved the idea of making the whole show this big love letter to sci-fi,â Herron told io9 on a recent video call about her approach to bringing the Time Variance Authority out of the pages of comic books and into a feasible reality for Disney+. âI love sci-fi, and with the TVA, specifically, I drew from quite a lot of placesâMetropolis, Blade Runner, The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy... Southeast London has a lot of Brutalist architecture, around where I grew up. I was really intrigued with putting that in the TVA, to represent these almost gods of the Time Keepers, but to match that with Mad Menâthis sort of midwest style, because theyâre heroic, and I thought that was a really interesting mix for me.â
But beyond cultural influences, Herron wanted to bring a human feeling to the otherwise kooky and esoteric vibe the TVA has in Loki. And what could be more endearing about an extra-temporal faction that rules the sacred timeline with an iron fist? The fact that theyâre also mostly just a bunch of pencil pushers. â[I wanted to] also be bringing in realities of my own experience just working in an office and being a temp,â Herron said. âI remember the technologyâa computer I used to work in was so old and they were like, âWell, itâs not broke so weâre not going to buy a new one!â I thought that felt very bureaucratic and went, âWell, the TVA is outside of time and spaceâtheyâre not in the future or the pastâso, maybe it could have this retro-futuristic Brazil kind of vibe.â Eighties technology is bit more clunky and needs updating, I think it was very fun in that sense, just for the overall style of the place.â
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âBeyond that I was working with my team to build upon these ideas. I definitely drew from the comics in terms of, likeâthey have these amazing images of desks going on into infinity, so we definitely brought that into the design, as well,â Herron continued. âFor me, something that was really important to make it feel like a real, living space was... I love movies like Eternal Sunshine and Scott Pilgrim, that are very heightened and fantastical that use a lot of practical sets. And I love doing long takes, so like weâll see in the first episode, Loki and Mobius step out the elevator and they walk down this really long hallway where they go in the first episode, and I thought [of] something me and my DP, Autumn [Durald, Lokiâs Director of Photography, said], âLetâs just make this one practical setâ. And I think that helped really add to the reality! Iâd say a lot of our show is a heavy mix of practical and heightened visual effects, which I think gives the TVA a level of reality, really.â
Part of Lokiâs first episode that leans a bit more into that heightened side of the TVA is two brief bits of retro-looking animation, presented as Lokiâs guide to just what the Time Variance Authority does with its detainees. One is a simple guide video, the other is a bit kookier, and an ongoing feature in the show: Miss Minutes, an anthropomorphic cartoon clock with a go-getter attitude and a Southern drawl, brought to life by voice acting legend Tara Strong. For Herron, translating the idea of these animations for the show (and, in Miss Minutesâ case, bringing her to life beyond the 2D plane), required balancing those classic inspirations with the need for these moments to be oursâand Lokiâsâintroduction to this strange new world.
âSo basically when I got Michael [Waldron]âs script, that was in there from the start, just the Mr. DNA of Jurassic Park, this Miss Minutes videoâand I thought, âAw, thatâs genius,â because, you know, itâs funny and weâre learning about this world-building, but weâre laughing at the same time,â Herron said of the animation. âSo, I thought that was very fun and obviously it kept evolving as we were locking down our world-building rules. I think for me, that was always a really smart way to justâas we see the TVA through Lokiâs eyesâbe like, âOK, so where are we? What are the rules of this place?â And we feel like he does. For me, that hand-drawn aspect was cool, because we donât see a lot of animation like that anymore. Itâs got this public service announcement style to it, as well, because of all the eras Iâm pulling from. Miss Minutes was inspired a bit by Felix the Cat, and cartoons of that era. Yeah, I think it was just really fun to do this Roger Rabbit kind of character within our show, so yeah: Miss Minutes is a lot of fun!â
Lin-Manuel Miranda Tells Us What Sets Encanto Apart From Other Disney Musicals
Disney recently unveiled its slate of upcoming animated films, including a brand-new musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Charise Castro Smith, and Zootopiaâs Jared Bush and Byron Howard. Encanto might be coming just a few years after Mirandaâs previous work with Disney on Moana but itâs a whole new experience for him.
In an interview with io9, Miranda shared some of the first information about Encanto, a Disney animated musical that âtakes you to Colombia, where a magical family live in a magical home.â He said whatâs unique about this film is, instead of being about one or two heroes who leave the nest to seek adventure, the âintergenerational familyâ in Encanto is a key part of the story. They donât disappear the moment the plot arrives to take someone on a grand questâsomething weâve often seen in Disney animated movies like Moana, Onward, and Inside Out.
Miranda said the teamâs goal was to create a family-friendly story thatâs actually about a family, and he said thatâs been a blast to write. âOne of the things that we really kind of all talked aboutâall the creators, Charise and Byron and Jared and Iâwe were like, âWe really want to tell a family, an intergenerational family story with all the complexity that brings,ââ Miranda said. âSo often when you get into story mode, it turns into the hero and the questâand you lose characters, then you lose complexity because everything becomes the quest. And I think whatâs been thrilling about this is, since thatâs been our mission statement, itâs been really fun to sort of write, you know, musical family dynamics in a really fun and complicated way. Iâm really excited for the world to finally see it.â
The projectâwhich is set to be Disney animationâs 60th feature releaseâhas been loosely in the works since 2016, though it ramped up more recently and Mirandaâs been part of it since the very beginning. It looks to be his most in-depth contribution to the Wonderful World of Disney so far. He even got to go on the research trips to Colombia.
Miranda told us how being involved from the startâunlike with Moana, where he was brought in to write the music after the film was well underwayâhas given him a chance to connect with (and influence) the plot in a new and exciting way. âThe biggest difference is that Iâve been able to be sort of in since the ground floor. With Moana I was kind of the last guy hired. And they were really a couple of years into the development of the story before I started working on it,â he said.
â[Encantoâs] been really fulfilling to have worked on. Itâll be three years by the time the movie comes out,â he added, âAnd Iâm still writing! Like, as soon as I hang up with you, I go back to work on those songs.â
Encanto is set to be released in theaters on November 24, 2021.