User blog:Alfa9delta/Dan and "Swampy" on the 2013 feature film "We want to make sure we get it right"

The website Movieweb recently caught up with both Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh to discuss the series, the new DVD, The Perry Files, the upcoming Phineas and Ferb movie, and Perry's overall appeal to the general public. I'll post here the part of the interview in which they discuss interesting news about the upcoming movie:

You guys have a movie coming out in 2013, right?

Dan Povenmire: That's what we hear!

Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh: Why, have you heard something different? Is there something we don't know?

I hear its still moving forward...

Dan Povenmire: Good! We're sill working on that. Hopefully, the movie will play to both audiences better than the show itself does. We're really keeping the adult audience in mind for the feature. Its still in the development patterned. The second draft is being worked on right now.

Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh: I think making a feature for an ongoing series presents a whole lot of specific and unique challenges. We want to make sure we get it right. Everyone at Disney seems to love the show as much as we do. So, everybody has a vested interested in making sure it can be the best it can possibly be. That it checks all the boxes. We're working on it!

How is the soundtrack coming along for the movie? I know each episode of the show has one new song. Are you creating quite a few new tunes for this?

Dan Povenmire: We are moving through the same process. We go through the story first, and then we figure out where a song will fit in. Then, we write the song around that. The songwriting on the show has become an easier process for us than writing songs for the bands that we were both in. Because, we are not trying to get out our inner demons. There is no angst involved. We have to write a song about this specific thing, and we have about a minute to do it.

Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh: We are singing about muffins, and giraffes...We have sixty seconds to fill, so...Go!

Dan Povenmire: We are just writing silly little pop songs about these different little things. We decide on a musical genre. Then the story dictates the musical chorus. We work towards that to make a melody that we like...

Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh: The difference on a movie is that we are going to write the entire song. When you are working within an eleven-minute format, you tend to write a song, and only use a small portion of it. You only have eleven minutes, so you can't do a whole three to five minute number. In the movie, we will have the joy and freedom of writing the whole song. We actually have a list of songs that we keep saying, "One day we must finish this!" They are really great songs, and we only have about 45 seconds of them.

Dan Povenmire: Yeah, you get a verse or two and the chorus. Then it's over. Because of these time constraints.

To read the full interview, go here --