India, May 11 -- Where did the inspiration for the film begin from?

The very first inspiration was when we made Fantastic Mr Fox, another animated movie which we shot at Bromley-By-Bow in East London. On the way, there was a sign at the road for the turnoff to the Isle of dogs, which is kind of an industrial island on the Thames. It always seemed very mysterious to me. I love dogs and I looked it up and it was supposedly the place where the king kept his hunting dogs in the 16th century (or something related) and that was the beginning of this movie, so I just hoped there's something in that for us, which was this. Then I went to Jason and Roman, my two good old friends and said I have this idea of of five dogs - Chief, King, Duke, Boss ...