How Mark Osborne got ‘The Little Prince’ to the big screen, with a computer animated twist

While working with his writers, Osborne drew inspiration from a variety of sources, including research conducted for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which convinced him to make his lead character a girl. Having had two strong female characters in “Kung Fu Panda,” Osborne assumed his body of work was a step in the right direction in terms of gender parity on screen, until the institute pointed out that there were 20 male characters in that film. Read More…