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Matthew Aldrich is known for Coco (2017), Lightyear (2022) and Cleaner (2007). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by ...
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- Early Career
- Coco with Disney/Pixar
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- Other Screenplays
Matthew Aldrich’s career as a writer started with crafting stageplays for a traveling children’s theatre company. After graduating from UCLA where he initially pursued acting, his work in film began at the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes independent filmmakers. His time there took him to Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil, laying t...
Aldrich first began working at Pixar on a film centered around the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in 2012, co-writing the screenplay and developing the story that would later become known as Coco. After the film’s November release in 2017, it earned $807 million at box offices worldwide — and the praise of critics: Cocois curr...
Besides his credits on Pixar’s Coco, Matthew Aldrich’s name also appears in the credits for Finding Dorywith special thanks, and his creative involvement with the company over the years has been wide-ranging: Following his work on Coco, Aldrich shared in early 2018that he had also been involved at Pixar for the past year developing an unnamed film ...
His first work to appear in theaters was the Samuel L. Jackson movie Cleaner released in 2008. A few years later his speculative screenplay, crime drama Father Daughter Time, sparked an intense bidding war that caught the attention of Matt Damon. Father Daughter Time is still in development, along with Aldrich’s subsequent script The Ballad of Pabl...
Jun 12, 2019 · Matthew Aldrich, the co-writer of Pixar’s Oscar-winning film Coco, has been crowned as overseer of Netflix’s expansive adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.. The streaming giant is tackling ...
Jul 18, 2023 · Little has been heard about Matthew Aldrich since he was announced as the Creative Architect of Netflix’s Chronicles of Narnia adaptations in 2019. For the past few years, the bio on his representative’s website has said he had a “3-year deal with Netflix.”. Sometime in the last several weeks, the bio was updated and the Netflix mention ...
Jun 13, 2019 · Netflix has announced that Matthew Aldrich has come on board to oversee the development and creative live-action adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series; Aldrich will work across both series and film and serve as a creative architect on all projects under the deal.
Dec 19, 2017 · Co-writer Matthew Aldrich joined the project in 2012, flying to Emeryville to hear an early version of the story and to brainstorm ideas. “So much about the project appealed to me,” he says, “the world, the themes, the team behind it. Like most people I admire Pixar’s films deeply, so just being invited to the campus felt like a win.
Jun 12, 2019 · June 12, 2019. Netflix announced on Wednesday that Matthew Aldrich — who co-wrote Disney’s 2017 animated Oscar-winner “Coco” — will oversee the development of all the streamer’s films ...
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