{"id":1184,"date":"2007-12-13T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/14\/interview-simon-j-smith-on-bee-movie\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:41:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T23:41:54","slug":"interview-simon-j-smith-on-bee-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/12\/13\/interview-simon-j-smith-on-bee-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Simon J Smith on Bee Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Simon<\/a>The new animated film Bee Movie<\/a> <\/strong>comes out this week and I recently interviewed one of the directors, Simon J Smith<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It tells the story of a bee (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld<\/a>) who ventures out from his hive into the real world, where he meets a florist named Vanessa (voiced by Renee Zellwegger<\/a>) and ends up getting involved in the world of humans.<\/p>\n

It also features the voices of Matthew Broderick<\/a>, Megan Mullally<\/a>, John Goodman<\/a>, Chris Rock<\/a>, Kathy Bates<\/a>, Oprah Winfrey<\/a> and Eddie Izzard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We speak about the plot of the film, how a random conversation in the Hamptons<\/a> between Steven Spielberg<\/a> and Jerry Seinfeld<\/a> led to the movie being made, how he got hired and the process of making a big budget animated film.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-12-13-93245.mp3]\n

To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Bee Movie <\/strong>opens in the UK on Friday 14th December<\/em><\/p>\n

> Download this interview as an MP3<\/a>
\n> Get local showtimes for Bee Movie<\/strong> at Google Movies<\/a>
\n> Simon J Smith<\/strong> at the IMDb
\n<\/a>> Official UK site for Bee Movie
\n<\/a>> Watch Jerry Seinfeld remind Larry King on CNN that Seinfeld was never cancelled<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new animated film Bee Movie comes out this week and I recently interviewed one of the directors, Simon J Smith. It tells the story of a bee (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) who ventures out from his hive into the real world, where he meets a florist named Vanessa (voiced by Renee Zellwegger) and ends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}