15 Facts About Sylvain Chomet

In 1992 Sylvain Chomet wrote the script for a science fiction comic called The Bridge in Mud.

In 1997, Sylvain Chomet published Ugly, Poor, and Sick, again with de Crecy.

In 1991, Sylvain Chomet started work on his first animated film, The Old Lady and the Pigeons, with backgrounds designed by Nicolas de Crecy.

In 2004, Sylvain Chomet founded Django Films, an animation studio based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sylvain Chomet says that "Tati wanted to move from purely visual comedy and try an emotionally deeper story" and states that "It's not a romance, it's more the relationship between a dad and a daughter".

In 2014, a couch gag directed and composed by Sylvain Chomet aired for The Simpsons episode "Diggs".

In 2015, Sylvain Chomet directed and co-wrote the animated music video "Carmen" for Belgian musician Stromae.

In 2016, Sylvain Chomet directed the short film Merci Monsieur Imada.

Later that year, Sylvain Chomet produced the illustrations for Caleb's Cab, a children's book written by his wife, Sally.

In 2004, Sylvain Chomet announced plans to direct Barbacoa, a film about a group of escaped zoo animals set during the 1871 Paris Commune produced by Django Films.

Sylvain Chomet came up against creative and ethical differences with the producers and was eventually fired from the project and thrown out of the studio space allocated to the film.

In 2012, Sylvain Chomet was in the early stages of working on a prequel to The Triplets of Belleville entitled Swing Poppa Swing to focus on the early lives of the elderly singing triplets from the first film.

In 2014, Sylvain Chomet announced plans to direct The Thousand Miles, a mix of live-action and animation based on various works of Federico Fellini, including his "unpublished drawings and writings", with a screenplay by Tommaso Rossellini and Demian Gregory.

On January 5,2016, Variety reported that Sylvain Chomet was moving forward with the film after a lengthy development process, and was expected for a 2017 release.

Sylvain Chomet was inspired to adapt the novel after becoming interested in Korean culture particularly after seeing the films of Park Chan-wook.