More than three years ago on April 24, 2012, Lee Unkrich was gearing up to finally be able to chat about his upcoming project based on the holiday, Dia de los Muertos. The announcement was made at the 2012 CinemaCon and Lee tweeted to his followers that he was "so excited to finally reveal my next movie at Pixar".
Shortly thereafter, the LA Times posted an interview with Lee (May 22, 2012) where he discussed the initial idea of his upcoming film. In fact, the article also mentions that he was a week away from pitching the main story idea to Pixar's "Brain Trust" (a collection of senior employees who offer insights and thoughts on new and in-progress films). Pixar's famous research trips had already begun for Lee as well and the article mentions that he had already been frequenting Mexico to get more details.
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