
They have some history and it brings them to who they are today. They're not just wacky because they're wacky. It expands the universe in that way, in the sense that we get to dig a little deeper into these characters. There's some history between the two of them and we start to reveal that through the course of the movie. " I think that this movie allows us to start to peel back the layers of all that is Buck," Donkin explained, "and actually, the introduction of the Zee character gives us a glimpse into some backstory in Buck. Now it just was suited when we're looking to come back and tell a story, another new story in the Ice Age world, it felt so natural to go back to the lost world and it's so natural to come back to Buck because it's a character that everybody loves."įor Donkin, some of the fun came from getting the chance to really explore Buck as a character - and how that affects the entire orbit around him. "We brought him back in Ice Age: Collision Course because Simon kept saying, 'When are you going to bring me back?' We came up with a story in Collision Course to bring him back. In fact, the character's previous return came out of a deep-seated love for the character - a sentiment Forte shares with Pegg himself.
