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‘Despicable Me’ Director on Potentially Making a Live-Action Minions Film: “God, I Hope Not”

"For me, what defines the ['Despicable Me' and 'Minions'] world is that it is animated and it allows us to get away with what we get away with," Chris Renaud says.

The filmmaker was recently asked in an interview with Film Hounds magazine if he was ever interested in seeing the Minions make the jump from animation to live-action, given Disney’s success with it. Like locking a minion in the vending machine, or you know, blowing up Gru (Steve Carell) when he attacks Vector (Jason Segel). Pixar ’s chief creative officer Pete Docter told Time magazine in June, ahead of the release of record-breaking Inside Out 2, that he isn’t a fan of the idea either.

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