“It would be fascinating to know the internal dialogue that he had,” Martino says. He’s also curious about Schulz’s creative decision to finally realize her on the page, just the once. Martino says he is “personally thankful” for the existence of that 1998 strip. They reproduced the profile and proportions precisely, put her in a striking electric-cyan dress, and conjured up what Martino deems a “special” hue of red hair: a supermarket-tomato red that’s distinct from that of the other Peanuts redheads Peppermint Patty and Frieda. Instead, with the same painstaking care they lavished on the other aesthetic considerations of the project, the Peanuts Movie animators looked to the Little Red-Haired Girl’s single silhouetted appearance in Schulz’s 1998 strip. The design of the character in those specials, however, suggests Melendez’s looser hand rather than that of Schulz, who had little involvement in the specials and didn’t regard them canon. The character has, in fact, had on-screen roles in the past, including two of the classic Peanuts television specials concocted by animation director Bill Melendez, It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977) and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986). It’s not lost on us that Charles Schulz left her to our imagination.” “We had many, many days of conversation about this. Putting the character on-screen in The Peanuts Movie was not a move taken lightly. TM and © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
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