When Dreamworks Animation announced the line-up for their future movies, the Shrek spin-off, PUSS IN BOOTS was on the list. At first all they had was scribe Tom Wheeler to write the screenplay, and now we know that not only will we have Antonio Banderas‘ voice again as the adorable cat with swordfighting skills, Salma Hayek will lend her voice to love interest Kitty. Shrek The Third helmer Chris Miller will direct, he wrote the earlier drafts of the screenplay.
Comingsoon.net had a chat with Banderas and he told them that PUSS IN BOOTS Movie will be an origin story.
“Yes, we’re going to go from the time he’s a very little cat, so you see actually why and how he becomes an adult killer, and the reasons why he ends up on that path. It’s interesting because it goes away from that kind of use of popular culture that ‘Shrek’ has. It goes in a different way,
and the movie sometimes gets almost emotional, I may say, and it’s kind of epic. I found when they pitched the movie to me, and now reading the script, a total real connection with the character. Obviously, he’s a cartoon, but (I have) a real personal connection with him in terms of what he’s expressing. It’s very emotional at some points, it’s very special. It’s going to surprise people I think; they’re not going to expect what we’re going to do.”
Here, have some kleenex, Mr. Banderas.
God forbid we have a Spanish grownass man who’s in touch with his emotional side and starts crying all over the interweb.
Maybe he’s become sensitive because besides the character PUSS, there’s not much going for Banderas lately.
It’s a good thing Dreamworks hasn’t forgotten about him.
Maybe the end of PUSS IN BOOTS would lead up to the moment in the bar when he showed up in Shrek 2.
Banderas will be part of Woody Allen’s untitled project and he’s set to star in Dali, playing the legendary painter. Until all these projects come to pass, his latest one, co-starring Morgan Freeman, THE CODE a.k.a Thick As Thieves, goes straight to DVD at the end of this month.
