John Lennon's “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” Inspires Animated Film

Directed by Pixar alumnus Dave Mullins with help from Jackson's WetaFX, the short, 'War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko,' has had an Oscar-qualifying run and is seeking distribution. The song "just felt like it deserved some kind of piece to help get it out there for another generation," Lennon says.In 2021, Sean Ono Lennon was looking for a way to make a music video for one of his parents’ signature songs and feeling creatively stuck—until he had a meeting with former Pixar animator Dave Mullins. The song, 1971’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over), is probably the most popular piece of music John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote as a couple. But beyond appearing reliably on playlists around the world every Christmas, Happy Xmas (War Is Over) is also a peace anthem, and Sean wanted to reintroduce the song’s message. The song “just felt like it deserved some kind of piece to help get it out there for another generation,” Lennon says. The only problem was that every music video idea seemed to trivialize it. “It almost felt goofy,” Lennon says. “Like a Hallmark kind of thing. What are we going to show, a family sitting around a fire? It needed an actual narrative.”

Source: Rebecca Keegan/hollywoodreporter.com

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