“Sing 2” is out this week and completes a nearly decade-long journey for British filmmaker Garth Jennings. The filmmaker, began making music videos as part of a collective called Hammer & Tongs, has spent the better part of ten years in France working on “Despicable Me” animation house Illumination Entertainment’s two “Sing” features back-to-back. It was another unexpected creative U-turn in a career full of them, which saw Jennings veer from studio sci-fi comedy to micro-budgeted indie to animation auteur.
In this wide-ranging interview, TheWrap talks to Jennings about his music video beginnings, what it was like making his first tentpole movie for Disney, and the path that led him to “Sing” (and now “Sing 2”).