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‘Despicable Me 4’ Director Chris Renaud Talks Minions Fandom, Why Gru’s Kids Won’t Age & Thoughts On A Mega Minions Spinoff


‘Despicable Me 4’ Director Chris Renaud Talks Minions Fandom, Why Gru’s Kids Won’t Age & Thoughts On A Mega Minions Spin-Off

Co-directors Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage touched down at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in mid-June for its French premiere, prior to the movie’s launch in the U.S. on July 3. Despicable Me 4 sees Gru fall foul of childhood nemesis Maxime Le Mal after he orchestrates the latter’s arrest in an Anti-Villain League (AVL) sting operation during a reunion at their old boarding school for baddies. “It this case, the new family dynamic problem was the need to move, which was then married to the villain… Originally, he was kind of a more generic bad guy and then we got into the idea of him being a high school rival of Gru.”

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