Biomancer

Hello to all three of you, and congratulations on the Before films. I haven't seen the third one yet, but the first two are probably my favourite series of all time. That said, I have a question about your thoughts on the overarching structure of the films.

Richard, you've worked on a number of other films, including Tape with Ethan, where the story takes place in accordance with the Aristotelian unities of drama (same place, same day, same action). You chose to do the same thing with the first two Before movies, which I thought added greatly to their charm. So it is very interesting to me that you chose to continue the series with films set at huge real-time intervals, which creates a sort of tension between the shape of each film and the shape of the series as a whole.

I was wondering if any of you could share your thoughts on the choice to focus on very brief time periods in single places as a way of telling a larger story that takes place across many cities and many years.

Sort of like taking a small sample and using it to extrapolate the characteristics of the whole - I like that analogy.

Interesting. I guess the boys who were buying Bionicle when it debuted were in their late teens by the time it ended; maybe a new franchise every few years is necessary to keep attracting new kids in the target age range.

One of my childhood hobbies was collecting, building and playing with Bionicles. What did you think of the Bionicle franchise? Also, why do you think it was cancelled - was it selling badly, or was there another reason for canning it?

Did the switch to Hero Factory work out for you, financially speaking?