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Jonathan Robert Aibel (born August 6, 1969 in Demarest, New Jersey) and Glenn Todd Berger (born August 26, 1969 in Smithtown, New York) are American screenwriters and producers, who are best known for writing the Kung Fu Panda movies, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Trolls, and its sequel Trolls World Tour .
Jonathan Aibel is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for creating the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He also worked on King of the Hill, Trolls, Monster Trucks and other animated and live-action films and TV shows.
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- Demarest, New Jersey, USA
Nov 8, 2016 · 'Trolls' screenwriters screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger on creating a world with so many colorful characters, balancing the story, and more.
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Jonathan Aibel was born in Demarest, New Jersey, USA. Jonathan is a producer and writer, known for Kung Fu Panda (2008), King of the Hill (1997) and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011).
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Jonathan:It’s interesting. The research that was done on the movie was really about happiness. It was more of a thematic research than any sort of Troll – or hair – research. Glenn:I know that Kendal Cronkhite, the Production Designer, did a lot of research into 70s aesthetics, Scandinavian aesthetic, and that kind of stuff. But on our side of thin...
Glenn:So much fun. It was the first time we’ve ever done something like this, where, in the writing, we had Spotify playlists from different eras. Early on there was a creative decision, collectively, that the music would only be from the 70s. But at a certain point we realized that was unnecessarily limiting. Jonathan: It was probably about the ti...
Glenn:This is a joke I once used and it continues to be true: the secret of our relationship is 20-something years of us going “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” Jonathan:Hey, stop with the cursing! Glenn:It’s a relationship completely untested by adversity! We’ve been lucky. We moved out to L.A. and got work within three months. And we’ve rarely been out of work...
Jonathan:The advice we often give is that people who say they want to be writers really just need to be writing. It seems sort of self-explanatory, but we’ve seen people who like being able to say that they’ve written and like to say “I’m a writer” but don’t actually like sitting down in the morning, firing up their computer and starting to write. ...
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Jonathan Aibel is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Co-Producer, Executive Producer, and Producer. Some of his work includes Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, Monsters vs Aliens, Trolls, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
