The Bad Guys Director Pierre Perifel on Making a Heist Movie Kids Can Enjoy

With The Bad Guys opening in theaters this weekend, I recently spoke with director Pierre Perifel about making the animated action comedy. Based on the popular Scholastic book series by Aaron Blabey, the film follows a criminal crew of animal outlaws as they attempt their most challenging con yet — becoming model citizens. The Bad Guys also features the voice of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Zazie Beetz, Lilly Singh, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Richard Ayoade, and Alex Borstein. The film is written by Etan Cohen and Hilary Winston and produced by Damon Ross and Rebecca Huntley. The executive producers are Aaron Blabey, Cohen and Patrick Hughes. During the interview, Perifel talked about what he’s most excited for people to see in his directorial debut, if the film went through any radical changes during the production, what he learned making the film that he’ll take to future projects, and his original storyboards. Check out what he had to say in the player above, and below is exactly