‘Spirit Untamed’ Director Elaine Bogan on How New Technology Makes Animated Movies Better

With DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed opening in theaters this weekend, I recently spoke to director Elaine Bogan about making the animated adventure. If you haven’t seen the trailer, the film is a heartwarming tale about the relationship between a young girl and the wild horse she encounters when she returns home to a small town at the edge of the open frontier. The voice cast also includes Isabela Merced, Julianne Moore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace, Walton Goggins, Eiza Gonzalez, Andre Braugher and Eiza González. Spirit: Untamed is the next installment in the Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron franchise, which includes an Emmy-winning TV series. During the interview, Bogan talked about how the film changed during production, the challenges of trying to make this movie in two years and during a pandemic, how technology has evolved to help make animated movies even better, why they removed an action scene from the second act, what she’d like people to know about what it takes