Despicable Me director asks God to spare us the horror of live-action Minions
Even the man who helped birth the Minions doesn't want to see these little yellow Hell Twinkies running around in live-action
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If we’re looking to throw around blame—and we always are—for the cultural ubiquity of the banana-loving hell Twinkies known as the Minions, Chris Renaud is a pretty good person to blame. As director or co-director of three of the four extant Despicable Me movies, as well as the voice of all the Minions in the first two films of the franchise, Renaud has done more than almost any other human being to put these terrible little men into earshot and eyeline on a planetary basis. He knows what he did.
But not even Chris Renaud, Traitor To Humanity, wants to go so far as to create [WARNING: ALL-TIME UNPLEASANT PHRASE TO CONTEMPLATE INCOMING] live-action Minions. Renaud, making the rounds on Despicable Me 4 (which he directed, after taking off both the third film and the two Minions spin-offs) was recently asked about the idea by Film Hounds magazine, apparently in deference to Disney’s ongoing crusade to take any and all of its classic animated characters, shove them screaming into a blender, and then make billions off of the CGI goo that comes pouring back out. But Renaud wasn’t having it.