With every film, we wanted to incorporate some of those ideas and show milestones in the characters’ lives-how we are changed by them and how we grow by them-so that at the end of each film, they’re not quite the same characters they were when it began, and certainly not the same characters they were when the franchise began.” As the films continued, we built upon that idea. The idea that you don’t have to be related by blood to be a family was a very universal theme. “It was very funny, it had real heart, and it was about three disparate characters coming together to form a family. “Part of the reason people embraced the first film so much is that there were lovable characters,” she says. “Audiences have really come to love these characters and these stories so much.”Īlthough the first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios (which Disney acquired in 2019), Forte feels the characters and stories have always upheld the standards of Disney animation. “I don’t think anyone, especially me, could’ve predicted after we made the first film 20 years ago that there would be another one-let alone several more!” Forte tells D23 in an exclusive interview. The film’s executive producer, Lori Forte, has been with the franchise from the beginning, working on such feature films as Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), as well as a handful of shorts and television specials, including Surviving Sid (2008), Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up (2010), and Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2016)-to name just a few. The characters and stories are timeless… making it hard to believe it’s been two decades since the first Ice Age film was released! The all-new animated adventure The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, now streaming on Disney+, continues the hilarious escapades of the beloved sub-zero heroes from the globally successful Ice Age franchise.
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