"In Your Dreams follows siblings Stevie and Elliot who discover a mysterious book called The Legend of the Sandman. The book gives them the ability to "Lucid Dream," which allows them to control aspects of the dream and navigate wildly imaginative dream worlds. When Stevie and Elliot discover that their parents may be on the verge of splitting up, they embark on a quest in the dream world to find the Sandman, so he can grant their wishes of keeping their family together."
"Every studio I know has had a dream movie in development at some point, and yet none of them ever made it to the finish line," Woo tells Inverse. "The challenge is built into the premise: what makes a dream movie so alluring-the fact that anything can happen-is also what makes it so difficult. When anything can happen, nothing matters. In other words, it's hard to create stakes in a world without rules. But somehow, our team cracked it."
Alex Woo left Pixar in 2016 to found Kuku Studios and directed his first feature, In Your Dreams. The film follows siblings Stevie and Elliot who find The Legend of the Sandman and gain lucid dreaming abilities that let them shape wildly imaginative dream worlds. The siblings use those powers to search for the Sandman in hopes of keeping their parents from splitting up. Woo treated the project as a white whale and grounded the limitless premise in emotional truth drawn from his own childhood experience. A very small team completed the ambitious, emotionally focused film.
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