Chris Sanders

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Sanders
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Mar 12, 1962(1962-03-12)
Age	62
Birthplace	Colorado Springs
Country	United States
Birth City	Colorado
Horoscope	Pisces

Chris Sanders Biography

Chris Sanders is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on March 12, 1962 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. American director, animator, voice actor, and writer. He co-wrote and co- directed the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch and the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon with Dean DeBlois.

He and Eddie Murphy both voiced characters in the 1998 Disney film Mulan.

In the late 1980s, Sanders created an allegorical picture book entitled The Big Bear Aircraft Company, with the subheading “A book for the big retreat” clarifying that it was created for a Disney offsite event. The Big Bear Aircraft Company is a thinly disguised version of Disney itself, and the book is critical of the creative process at the company, which prioritized “big ideas, figuring they will be big successes” and noted that if proposed aircraft (i.e., movie ideas) “don’t look the same as the ones [that were] built before, [the boss, Big Bear] gets uncomfortable.” After handing each idea pitched by the “visual engineer” to a writer who “likes airplanes” but “has actually never worked on one before, and couldn’t tell you for sure what makes one fly”, the story states the assigned writer “is guaranteed of making the same mistakes every time. He will make his airplane look like every one he’s seen before …” In the end, the head of the company, Big Bear, gets an airplane that is “a lot like last year’s; not very inspiring and not very memorable. But people bought it before, and they’ll probably buy it again. By playing it safe, he’s insured his company’s survival.” However, since it is not the only aircraft company, these policies are destined to leave the company vulnerable to more imaginative competitors “with its wings of good reputation all shot off.” The story concludes that Big Bear should instead give the visual engineers “the two things they need to do their job: Bear’s trust and time” to allow smaller, more innovative ideas to flourish. Years later, to explain his motivation regarding the piece, Sanders wrote about his concern over “the ever-growing complexity of our films, and what I saw as an emerging pattern they were all cut from”, citing the example that during the story development for Mulan, one of the major concerns was the manner of the villain’s death rather than the idea that the villain had to die at all. This in turn motivated him to develop Lilo & Stitch, which he summarized as “a story about a villain who becomes a hero.”

Sanders was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He went to Arvada High School in Arvada, Colorado. He is a 1984 graduate of the California Institute of the Arts.

He married Stacie Harris. He grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado with two siblings.

Chris Sanders Net Worth

Chris Sanders is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Sanders 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts before working as a storyboard artist.

He co-wrote and co-directed the 2013 feature The Croods with Kirk DeMicco.

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American animation director, film director, screenwriter, producer, illustrator and voice actor. He is best known for co-writing and directing Disney’s Lilo & Stitch (2002) and DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with Dean DeBlois, and for creating and voicing Stitch in Lilo & Stitch and every Western-produced work in its franchise. He also directed and co-wrote DreamWorks’ The Croods (2013), along with Kirk DeMicco, and later directed 20th Century Studios’ The Call of the Wild (2020), his live action directorial debut and his first film without a co-director.

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Who is Chris Sanders Dating?

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After completing How to Train Your Dragon, Chris returned to The Croods, which was released on March 22, 2013. Sanders shared directing and writing credits with Kirk DeMicco, who had joined in the middle of production. The film proved to be a success, grossing over $500 million. Sanders and DeMicco then worked on The Croods sequel for three and a half years, before its cancellation in late 2016. However, the sequel was revived in September 2017, although with Joel Crawford replacing Sanders as director.

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chris Sanders celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.

In October 2017, it was announced that Sanders would be directing a new film adaptation of the 1903 Jack London novel The Call of the Wild for 20th Century Fox. During the film’s production, Disney, Sanders’s former employer, acquired 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, thus making Sanders employed by Disney in a non-voice acting role again by proxy of Disney attaining ownership of The Call of the Wild through 20th Century Fox, which Disney renamed 20th Century Studios in January 2020. The Call of the Wild, which became the first film released under the 20th Century Studios label, was released in February 2020. The film received mixed critical reception, with a 62% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the lowest-received film in Sanders’s directorial career thus far, and grossed $107.6 million on a budget of $125–$150 million, becoming Sanders’s first directorial box-office bomb.

How old is Chris Sanders?

60 years (March 12, 1962)

Who designed the characters in Lilo and Stitch?

Full-time animation writer-director (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods). Part-time cartoonist, illustrator, and author.

What movies did Christopher Sanders play in?

Appears in

Who animated stitch?

Chris Sanders as Stitch/Experiment 626, a blue koala-like illegal genetic experiment with the ability to create untold chaos. Alex Kupershmidt served as the supervising animator for Stitch.

Who invented stitch?

Within the franchise, Stitch was created by Dr. Jumba Jookiba to cause chaos across the galaxy. Stitch is marked by his mischievous behavior, which endeared him to Lilo, who adopted him as her “dog”.