and Nemo for a life-changing adventure across the ocean to California’s prestigious Marine Life Institute (MLI), a rehabilitation center and aquarium.

When Dory suddenly remembers that she has a family out there who may be looking for her, she recruits Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks). I knew there was a story worth telling.”įinding Dory welcomes back to the big screen everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres) living happily in the reef with Marlin and Nemo (voice of Hayden Rolence) about a year after their life-changing adventure. Her confusion got a laugh when she said in the first film, ‘Where are they?’- but there’s a sad truth to that. “We learn when we first meet Dory that she can’t remember where she’s from,” says Stanton. Their happenstance meeting and subsequent friendship marked the first time since she was a kid that she had a family.”įamily is a key theme in Finding Dory.

E.Īdds producer Lindsey Collins, “Dory seems so happy, but she was never really grounded until she met Marlin.

What if she got lost again? Would she be OK?” says Stanton, who has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company’s elite group of computer animation pioneers 1990, wrote and directed the Oscar winning Finding Nemo and WALL

“The idea of her short-term memory loss and how it affected her was unresolved. “I realized that I was worried about Dory,” he says of everyone’s favourite forgetful blue tang. Directed by Andrew Stanton and co-directed by Angus MacLane (Toy Story OF TERROR!), the screenplay for Finding Dory was crafted by Victoria Strouse (October Road) with Stanton.

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