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The Inventor, the new stop motion film from the writer of Ratatouille, focuses Leonardo da Vinci movie from Italy to move to France, a place where he hopes he can be his true, eccentric self and continue to create with constraints. After striking a friendship with Princess Maguerite, Leonardo lives out the end of his life trying to build the “ideal city.”

I talked to The Inventor’s co-director and writer Jim Capobianco about why he likes stop-motion, the scene he was most excited to see come to life, why they decided to focus on the end of Leonardo da Vinci Iife and avoiding tropes when it comes to portraying women.

The Inventor is in theatres on September 15th. You can see movie times here.