Disney’s centenary film Wish will have fans hunting for Easter eggs, say directors

SINGAPORE – Disney’s animated films have a tradition of giving nods to earlier movies.

A fish glimpsed in the background in Moana (2016) might have first appeared in The Little Mermaid (1989), for example.

Spotting Easter eggs in the new musical fantasy Wish – which opens in cinemas on Nov 23 – will keep Disney fans busy, say its directors Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn during an online press event.

“We’ve been told that someone has kept a list and there are at least a hundred Easter eggs,” adds Buck, 65. Veerasunthorn, 40, believes that number is higher.

Wish commemorates the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, so its creators have packed the film with homages.

Artists in different departments would “just keep adding things in the backgrounds”, says Buck.

“They would surprise us and some of them are things even we don’t know about,” adds…