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The Illumination’s You are despised Me The franchise has continued thanks in part to the Minions. The yellow mascots have done well enough to have their own spinoff franchise, and it seems those chaotic demons can go anywhere…except live action, if Chris Renaud has anything to say about it.

In a recent interview with Film Hounds Magazine, the Despicable Me 4 the director was asked about the live-action remake. His personal answer was clear: “God, I hope not. […] For me personally, it’s not that attractive.” He doesn’t know if that’s in the cards, but in his eyes, animation defines the characters and their world, and using real people wouldn’t help them much. “[Animation] it allows us to escape from what we find,” explained Renaud. “I think it’s completely different when you do a live-action version. Locking a Minion into a vending machine, or blasting Gru when he attacks Vector. These are really cartoon ideas, like what was in the Bugs Bunny cartoon.”

Disney has led the way in live-action remakes for years, but Illumination’s parent company Universal is bucking the trend with How to Train Your Dragon in 2025. It’s the only song that Universal got on the docket, but you can imagine that that song could change if Dragon he’s doing very well and the people in charge are looking at the hitter’s animated franchises under his belt. If that ends up being the case, the You are despised Me films may be the first to be selected; the series just crossed the 5 billion mark earlier this summer, so there’s obviously a lot of love for it.

Until then, you can look forward to (or dread) the third Friends The spinoff will be released on June 30, 2027.

[via THR]

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