We chat with Entergalactic director Fletcher Moules and writers Maurice Williams & Ian Edelman about how they helped craft KiDCuDi's album into an animated Netflix spectacle:
Animation for adults is a genre that has yet to be fully welcomed by the masses, but every once in a while a gem of a story emerges whose quality cannot be denied. Entergalactic, the new animated Netflix project from Scott Mescudi and Blackish creator Kenya Barris, is one such example. Using songs from the artist's eighth studio album of the same name, Entergalactic tells the story of a romance between two Black artists against the gorgeously visualized backdrop of modern New York City.
What I used to do was roam on my phone or ride my bike around Venice Beach where I live, and listen to the songs on repeat at nighttime. And that's how I started doing the first painting, mainly thinking about New York City. And then from there, it was really just scouring the internet to find the best artists around the world that could help visualize this.
By the time we started the writers' room, it was very [collaborative]. I can't praise Scott enough for his trust and taste, because what he did was he really let us [work]. He'd be like, "Bring it back to me when it's a story; when it's something that I can follow. You heard the music, let's do it." And then it really was just sliding things ever so slightly to the left or ever so slightly to the right.
For example, there was an Aladdin-like moment that these guys had in the script where they leave a party, and then Jabari wants to show Meadow his point of view of New York City and take her to a secret spot. The song "In Love" is playing, and then just through the storyboarding process, we ask, "What's the best way of using animation to express that?" It was only really visual changes of a story that was already there.
Maurice Williams: That was a writers' room joke, and the more we made the joke, the more we were like, "It's actually a really interesting idea."
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