'Foster' trivia and fun facts
The director of 'The Peanuts Movie'
Steve Martino is the director of 'The Peanuts Movie', the first computer adaptation of the comic strip of Charles M. Schulz, besides it's the first movie since the author's death in 2000. Martino is also the director of 'Horton Hears a Who!' (2008) or 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift' (2012).
First female director
For the first time in the producer Blue Sky Studios, they have hire a female director for the proyect. The producer belongs to 20th Century Fox since 1997.
His first animated film
Marc Platt's first animated film.
First musical
This is the first musical of Blue Sky Studios despite the film 'Rio' (2011) and 'Rio 2' (2014) included some originals songs.
Two award-winning composers
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the composers of the original soundtrack of 'Foster'. Both composers won an Oscar for Best Original Song called 'City of Stars' of the film 'La La Land' (2016). Pasek and Paul were also nominated for another Oscar for the soundtrack of 'The Greatest Showman'.