From FastCompany …

“Originally envisioned as a direct-to-DVD spin-off of Cars, the wildly successful Pixar franchise, Planes was never meant to be as a big summer movie. But during production, a funny thing happened. Test audiences not only liked it, they really, really liked it. And so the decision was made to switch tracks and, not unlike the film’s protagonist–a lowly crop duster named Dusty (voiced by Dane Cook) who gets the chance to race around the world against a fleet of much bigger, faster, sleeker planes–the movie will now go up against some of the summer’s tentpole offerings.”

You can read the rest of the interview at FastCompany.

The DVD/Blu Ray contains an hour-long featurette of the behind-the-scenes of PLANES with director Klay hall and John Lasseter.

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