Marcel the Shell creators bring beloved tiny creature to the big screen
After almost an eight-year hiatus, actor Jenny Slate and director Dean Fleischer-Camp are bringing their lovable Marcel the Shell back to life. This time audiences will see the\xa0seashell with two pink shoes and one plastic eye, who babbles insightful and funny life-observations, in the stop-motion, feature-length mockumentary, \u201cMarcel the Shell With Shoes On.\u201d The online shorts were a smash-hit at the time, so for Fleischer-Camp it was important for the film to maintain Marcel\u2019s original online integrity. That is why, he explains, \u201cit took a while for us to find the right partners to do that, in a way that was really holistic to what we had made and what and how we like to work.\u201d\xa0And because Fleischer-Camp invented much of the filmmaking process, Slate remarks that they wanted to take that to the film production, \u201cso we took the risk to try to create that [environment] for ourselves.\u201d\xa0The duo now share the story behind how \u201cMarcel the Shell\u201d was created, and their trajectory of taking this tiny character from being a YouTube sensation to the big screen.\xa0But first, Kim Masters and Matt Belloni banter about the Emmys group-like nominations this year. And while Hulu got 58 nods, its future as a streaming platform remains uncertain.\xa0