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Jun 16, 2020 · Dan Scanlon was a year old and his brother three when their father died in a car accident. Onward, voiced by Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imagines two brothers can...
Feb 15, 2021 · DAN SCANLON: My dad passed away when my brother and I were really young. I was a year old and my brother was three, so we don’t remember him at all, or have any memories of him.
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“The story is inspired by my own relationship with my brother and our connection with our dad who passed away when I was about a year old,” says director Dan Scanlon. “He’s always been a mystery to us.
The touching true story behind Onward – how a real-life loss inspired the Pixar movie. Writer/director Dan Scanlon drew from his own family background for the moving fantasy tale. Disney. Huw...
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Mar 1, 2020 · Dan Scanlon never knew his father, who died when he was a year old. His brother Bill, named after their father and two years older, might have a memory or two of their dad, but they’re pretty...
Mar 9, 2020 · His own father passed away when Dan was a year old and his brother was three, so the two always wondered what he was like. “That question became the seed of Onward , which was, ‘What if you could meet him?
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Mar 5, 2020 · “Onward” goes a step further: It’s inspired by the death of writer-director Dan Scanlon’s father. “My dad passed away when I was a year old and my brother was three,” he said.
