I want to tweet a bit about #PixarLuca. I have been curious to watch it since it was announced, because it's a Pixar film and it's set in my home country.

I have read and listened to a few interviews about the upcoming film, and I've learned that the director - Enrico Casarosa, who also directed La Luna, stunning short from 2011 - based Luca on old folklore and his memories of childhood holidays.

One of the main themes of the movie will also be friendship, and it's easy to imagine this lovely trio of kids, formed by Luca, Alberto, and Giulia, run around exploring the town.

Every time I watch the trailer I catch a new detail. The rocky beaches from Liguria, the roads, the typical houses, the dama game played by two elders in the corner of a street. I feel like I've lived in this town before, and it's not even real!

The fictional town is called Portorosso, which is a mix of different town names, most famously Portofino and Monterosso, both villages in the Cinque Terre, and both facing the sea.

The story is set in this fictional '50s/'60s Italian landscape, with its new red Vespas and its loud kids playing football in the town square.

Casarosa adds that he was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's films, as well as Italian filmmakers from the past.

The song you can hear at the beginning of the trailer is Edoardo Bennato's 'Il Gatto E La Volpe', AKA 'The Cat And The Fox', or the two infamous tricksters from Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio.

I imagine that the film might approach the theme of 'being different', Giulia brings up being the "underdog" in the trailer, and Luca and Alberto are literally sea monsters in a human town. I'm really curious to see what this film will bring, in any way!

There are some questions I would like to ask to @sketchcrawl or @_jesse_andrews_ and @whereisjones, if they ever see this thread.

I know you had to work on the movie at home during the pandemic: how was the process and how much did it take?

Was the choice of people's names carefully chosen or was it random? Is there a particular reason why you chose to name the main character 'Luca'?
Or is there a specific reason why Giulia's name is Marcovaldo, other than for a nod to Italo Calvino's work?

Did you decide to use some words in the Ligurian dialect, too or did you opt for Italian only?

And after hearing Il Gatto E La Volpe in the trailer, here's my last question: what other Italian songs -old or new- would you add to the soundtrack now when the movie is already done?