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IGN: I saw about 26 minutes of the movie, and there definitely seems to be some darker content than in the first Cars, which often happens with sequels.

#Cars 2 secret agents movie

And it's kind of fun in this movie having the minions and the bad guys be the lemon cars of the world, where the world has turned their back on them, so they've held a grudge and they've figured out a way to come back. And have the conspiracy be, 'Whoa! Yeah, this is bigger than I thought!' And it to be about something that you could relate to. With the good guys, you're on the edge of your seat whether they're going to make it or not and have the bad guys be bad. The fun was not in how tongue-in-cheek they were, the fun was in the fact that they were automobiles doing all of this. As we started developing this, that's when I really wanted it to be serious. Is he pretty close to what you first envisioned? Lasseter: It was a little bit more of a parody back then. IGN: Finn McMissile was an idea first conceived for the first Cars, in a movie within a movie scene that was cut. Not only through the story, but the design and the research was really important for both of those. Get the details right, which is so important. But it was important to get the truism, the realism into Cars 2, like we had in Cars 1. He's really good at racecar driving and has a great interest in that, so I had him do the difficult task of going to the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo and all those kind of places. But it takes time and I didn't have that kind of time. Even early in the project, I worked with a co-director, Brad Lewis, to really focus on the research, which is so vitally important to every Pixar film. But also, it gave them a chance to rise to a new level in their careers. And that really was fun, because they started bringing to me amazing ideas I never would have thought of and that collaboration was great.

But I didn't go in there and work on every little detail. And then setting them up with each task but telling them what I envision and what the story needs and all of that. The creation of the characters and all of that. I stayed focused on the most important part: the storytelling. IGN: So how did you manage to juggle all of your responsibilities? Lasseter: I had really key people I'd worked with before and I delegated a lot of stuff to them. And so I decided to work on this one a little differently.

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I thought, 'Okay, how can I do this?' Because each of those is like a full time job. The challenge was how, as I was being chief creative officer of Pixar and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Toon Studios and principal creative Adviser for Walt Disney Imagineering. So all of these things were there and I knew I wanted to direct this. And I just thought, 'Okay, this is going to be so much fun - to reimagine a spy movie in the car world.' It's not a parody of a spy movie. That was my favorite show when I was a kid. I have five sons and we're just crazy about spy movies, all types. And I thought, 'Oh, this would be really fun вЂ“ to take them around the world.' And then also, I loved, loved, loved spy movies.

IGN: What did spark this film's idea? Lasseter: It came from my own personal experiences of traveling around doing publicity for Cars and thinking about, 'What would Mater do? What would McQueen do in these kinds of situations?' In Tokyo and London and Paris and Italy and all these places.