Why Disney Pixar’s ‘Soul’ was a tough one for Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Docter

At the thought of a Disney original for India, Peter Docter beams, “You know what? And working with Indian filmmakers is a great opportunity too.” But for now, the Academy Award-winner — known for Inside Out, Up and Coco — and Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer, is eager to release Disney Pixar’s Soul, which stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. Kids are as smart as us, and often smarter!” Powers laughs, “This film is not made in chronological order.” And Docter tacks on cheekily, “Maybe if we were smarter…” Murray remarks that they had started working on Soul four years ago. But we dropped the other digits to just make her 22, so she’s been there for that long and have mentors from any time period, which made for a lot of great jokes.” Docter continues, “From the beginning, the concept was a soul that looks down to Earth and goes ‘that looks like a lot of suffering and disappointment, I don’t want to have anything to do with that!’ We actually read it in Tina’s autobiography, where she would make fun of students walking past her in high school. “There were lots of intangible things that Jamie brought to the character from the very first reading that caused those developments over the course of creating the entire film.” It wouldn’t be a Disney Pixar film if there weren’t already some fan theories floating about, even ahead of the film’s release.