Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

From 2009: Several years ago, Stephen Paul Leiva worked with Brad Bird in development for a Spirit animated film. Bird, of course, is best known for creating and directing The Incredibles. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get an interview with Bird in time for my Eisner biography so I never learned much about the never finished animated film. Until early Dec 2008, that is, when Leiva wrote about the project for the Los Angeles Times. It’s a great story and fills in a major gap in the Eisner cinematic story.