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We tempered it so that Snowball thinks that’s what he wants to do when he meets a human but at the end of the movie of course, when he meets the little girl, he melts because that’s really what he wanted the whole time – a human to love him,” he said. They were very funny to us but when we were in the room with families watching who were ‘with Snowball,’ and when he talked a little too much about killing humans, they were like, ‘No, I don’t like this’ and they started liking Snowball a little less. If he didn’t, we wouldn’t be concerned that Max and Duke would be okay. “We needed Snowball to have an edge to him. So, when is dark too dark in a kids’ movie?Īt first, the “Flushed Pets” were wicked and hilarious to adults, but not so much to kids. The “Flushed Pets.” Photo courtesy: Universal Pictures “We needed a pet villain, obviously, because the human villains, which were Animal Control, were really just this nuisance in the background of the movie.” The villains in the film are a gang of angry animals called the “Flushed Pets,” including a raging rabbit named Snowball (Kevin Hart), a dangerous Viper who hates humans and a Pot Bellied Pig (Michael Beattie), that was used by art students to practice tattooing. Like any good writer, he knows the importance of creating high stakes. The father of a three-year-old boy, Lynch takes writing children’s stories seriously but still finds it a struggle to know where to draw the line between dark humor and plain old darkness. But they also had to create villains scary enough to strike fear into the protagonists yet not too scary as to send little kids running out of the theater. Despicable Me writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio smartly brought Lynch on board to help streamline the story and define the animal characters to make them as distinctive and engaging as possible. Like most major animated films, The Secret Life of Pets has multiple writers. “I want to scar kids for life,” he said with a laugh, expressing his natural dark sense of humor. Though, he did tell us that if there’s a sequel to The Secret Life of Pets, he’ll work in the frightful can opener scene. Lynch’s ability to illustrate and draw was hindered due to the nerve damage, but lucky for us, he can still type. He was just bored, wondering if this was going to interfere with him getting fed,” said Lynch. “It cut midway through my thumb and – you know how in horror movies they cut away from the gore and you just see a huge blood spatter? It was like that across my big fat orange cat named Oliver who didn’t even react. The magnet gave out and the can fell, slicing his hand open with the jagged lid. When Lynch was younger, dabbling in comics and filmmaking, he went to open a can of cat food using a wall-mounted can opener.

Ironically enough, a can of cat food changed the course of his career forever. But before we could get into the nitty-gritty of storytelling, Lynch revealed to us that he was almost a cartoonist – not a screenwriter. ScreenwritingU sat down with writer Brian Lynch ( Minions, Puss in Boots, Hop) to find out his secret to balancing lightness and darkness in family-focused movies. This animated adventure imagines the daytime escapades of two pooches, a Jack Russell terrier named Max (Louis C.K.) and a giant moppet of a shaggy dog, Duke (Eric Stonestreet), revealing what really goes on when their owner is at work. The Secret Life of Pets is a heart-felt celebration of the human-pet connection, a bond most of us cherish throughout our lives.
