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Mar 2, 2020 · Dan Scanlon didn’t have a sad childhood; he just grew up with a hole in it. It was in the shape of his father, who died in 1977 when Scanlon was only one year old.
When he was one year old and his brother three years old, their father died, and when they were teenagers, a relative gave them a brief audio recording of their father. Scanlon has said that these experiences helped inspire the story of Onward. [6]
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 · 'Onward' director Dan Scanlon channels a personal experience of loss into his latest acclaimed Disney/Pixar feature.
- Matt Grobar
Mar 1, 2020 · Photo: Pixar. 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,...
Mar 3, 2020 · Dan Scanlon, the film’s director, never met his father—he died before Scanlon was born. Then, one day he and his brother put in a cassette tape and heard their dad’s voice…
Jan 14, 2020 · “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. That was the jumping-off point.
