Miguel Puga, who co-developed Nickelodeon’s Loud House spinoff series The Casagrandes, makes his feature directorial debut with The Casagrandes Movie. The epic animated action/adventure comedy premieres this Friday March 22nd on Netflix. Puga shares his enthusiasm for the film, and what fans of the beloved characters should look forward to, in this Animation Scoop Q&A. (This interview was edited for length and clarity.)
Jackson Murphy: Has it sunk in for you yet that you’ve taken this very popular Nickelodeon animated series… and now it’s a movie that millions and millions are just gonna love?
Miguel Puga: It hasn’t yet, but this being my first movie, it’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in my entire career. I got to work with some of the best people. Some of my best friends got to work on it. And we got to sit down for almost two years and just make this very epic grande movie with all of them. I’m so glad you really enjoyed it because that’s what we wanted to do. We wanted to make this movie feel like “Goonies” meets a Marvel movie… but still keep it contained in the “Casagrandes” / “Loud House” world. So I hope that’s kind of the area where we ended up, because I really enjoyed it, and we all wanted to do a movie that we wanted to watch.