Marcel the Shell's journey from YouTube to the big screen involves a meta take on viral fame.
— which now has 32 million views — told the story of an odd little mollusk who experiences loneliness, wears lentils as hats, has a pet lint named Allen, and lives with his grandmother Connie.
Since the video first went viral in 2010, Slate’s been approached constantly by people wanting to adapt the story — often in ways that run counter to its essence. Slate said that execs always wanted to pair Marcel with a guy. “We were always pretty turned off by the ways that people figured that it should be changed,” Slate said. “It was always [pairing Marcel with] a guy: ‘He's best friends with this tall guy.’ It was just like… ‘This isn't ...
Part of that creative control allowed Slate to make a film that was largely improvised and involved an outline over a full script. First, the cast — which, along with Slate and Rossellini, reprises her role as Connie, also includes Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann and Lesley Stahl — recorded a largely improvised audio-play, then created a storyboard with dialogue and then shot live-action sequences and then overlayed that with stop-motion..
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