Yesterday, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 opened in U.S. theaters and it’s already aimed squarely at one of the biggest opening weekends of any animated film this year.Earlier in the month, however, directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn joined ComicBook.com for a conversation about the film–and about the series of books on which it’s very loosely based. The first part of our conversation, which discussed getting the movie made and how the studio supported it more than the first installment, can be found here.ComicBook.com: I remember when the first one came out, I was dating the person who is now my wife. She was manages a Barnes & Noble and so while we were not at all part of the target demographic, she was at the same time very, very enthusiastic about the picture because she knew the books. Is it a different sort of pressure you think doing a story that you have to break – doing a kind of story that is an established property – can that sequel be kind of something that you guys came up with and not an adaption of the books?Kris Pearn: I think as far as the adapting of the books you know the first movie we had to kind of invent the world – because what the book provided was a situation but not really the characters .Cody Cameron: There were the food events but no Flint Lockwood, no machines.
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