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We wrote it way before COVID, but it still actually feels like a good message during these times as well. And her learning at the end that, even though you're not in the same place, you're still part of the family. I think that felt like the right story to tell.Īnd it was still at its heart a family story, with Ellie needing to let her brothers go and not knowing that she could. Who wouldn't want to spend more time there and spend more time with a character as lovable as he is? And for Crash and Eddie, who adore him and idolize him, it felt like time in the timeline of the Ice Age franchise for them to think about growing up and going out on their own a little bit - but not be sure that they could do it. He's eccentric, and he talks to rocks and whatever, and he's guardian of a lost world of dinosaurs. We chose Buck because he's crazy, and he's larger than life. We wanted to focus in on a couple of characters, a few characters that we really loved and that the audience is really loved, that we never really had a chance to spend a lot of time with because there's so many characters to service in all the movies. I think this is the way to go for us, because we've done five movies, and we've done five movies with gigantic casts: a big, huge family and a herd of characters. I think people were asking and wanting it to come back, and you couldn't thrill me and John more than that.

20 years ago was the first one, and we've done a lot since the last one. Tell me about this idea to bring Ice Age back, and why this story was the right one to tell.

I think this is our longest wait yet between movies. Related: Justina Machado Interview for Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild