Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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All about film

Video 11

Photo 56

Actors and characters

Release date

2022-06-24

Country

United States

Production

Focus Features, Cinereach, Strongman, Chiodo Bros. Productions, You Want I Should, LLC, Human Woman, Sunbeam TV & Films

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Budget

$6 000 000

Revenue

$6 916 437

Website

https://a24films.com/films/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on

Director

Dean Fleischer Camp

Actors

Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer Camp, Isabella Rossellini, Joe Gabler, Shari Finkelstein, Samuel Painter, Blake Hottle, Scott Osterman, Jeremy Evans, Lesley Stahl
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Paul S. Mezey, Caroline Kaplan, Jenny Slate, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Dean Fleischer Camp, George Rush, Philipp Engelhorn, Nion McEvoy, William Byerley

Operator

Eric Adkins

Composer

Rich Vreeland

Artist

Audition

Editing

Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley
All team (31)

• The original shell Marcel used was purchased in a souvenir shop. When director and screenwriter Dean Fleischer-Camp discovered he needed more shells, he went to the same shop, and it turned out that the shells – even of the same type and displayed in the same shop – were very different from each other. Ultimately, Fleischer-Camp created the shells he needed using a 3D printer.
• Work on the film took about seven years. The script was written, lines were devised for it, then everything was recorded and assembled, and then the whole process was repeated – until the lines for the entire film were recorded. After the storyboard for each scene was created, they filmed scenes with live actors and backgrounds, followed by puppet animation filming (on average, a whole day of filming resulted in 5-10 seconds of screen time), and then all of this was overlaid on the actors' scenes.
• The original shell Marcel was purchased in a souvenir shop. When director and screenwriter Dean Fleischer-Camp discovered he needed new shells, he went to the same shop and found that the shells – even of the same type and displayed in the same shop – varied greatly from one another. In the end, Fleischer-Camp created the shells he needed using a 3D printer.
• Work on the film took about seven years. The script was written, lines were devised for it, then everything was recorded and assembled, and then the whole process was repeated – until the lines for the entire film were recorded. After the storyboard for each scene was made, they filmed the live-action footage and backgrounds, followed by puppet animation filming (on average, a whole day of filming resulted in 5-10 seconds of screen time), and then all of this was overlaid onto the live-action footage.