MONSTERS ARE JUST LIKE HUMANS IN “HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA”
“`Hotel
Transylvania' is a story about a father and a daughter – it’s just that the
father happens to be Dracula,” says Genndy Tartakovsky, director of Sony
Pictures Animation's new, 3D animated comedy, “Hotel Transylvania.”
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“Like
all fathers, he’s an overprotective, psychotic, and endearing guy who'd do
anything for his daughter, but unlike other fathers, he’s the Prince of
Darkness.”
In
the film it turns out that the world’s most famous monsters – including
Dracula, Frankenstein, the Werewolf, the Invisible Man, and the Mummy – are
just like regular people, with families and problems and a need to get away
from it all… but unlike humans, they have to live in hiding from a world that
thinks they’re, well, monsters. What better place to hide than Hotel
Transylvania, which Dracula himself operates as a sanctuary from the rest of
the world and has been human-free since 1898?
But
Dracula has issues of his own… his daughter, Mavis, is a teenager – in fact,
she’s about to turn 118 – and as she becomes a woman, the vampire’s greatest
fear is losing his relationship with her. Well, his two greatest fears are
losing his relationship with his daughter and garlic, but that’s another story.
“One
of the toughest things you have to do as a parent is to let your children go
out into the world,” says producer Michelle Murdocca, who has shepherded the
film since its inception. “You can’t protect them; you just have to trust that
they’re going to be able to take care of themselves. It turns out that even
Dracula thinks the world can be a scary place sometimes.”
“`Hotel
Transylvania' makes these monsters funny – funnier than they’ve ever been – but
the reason these monsters have lasted through the years is that they all have
great personal stories,” says Tartakovsky. “There’s a humanity to them that
makes them accessible. And that’s what we’ve found for our Dracula – there’s a
great, accessible, bittersweet story, where you see how human the vampire is.”
“When
I first joined Sony Pictures Animation – right at the very beginning of the
studio – and looked at the development slate, I was immediately struck by
`Hotel Transylvania,'” says Murdocca, who also produced Sony Pictures
Animation's first feature film, “Open Season.” “I loved the fun that we could
have with all of these traditional characters as we do a whole new take on
them. When Adam Sandler joined the project, it really opened up a lot of
possibilities about who Dracula could be – suddenly, we saw the potential of it
becoming a bigger and broader comedy than we had ever imagined.”
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