“It’s an ambitious story that we set out to tell,” Joel Crawford, director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, tells Total Film. “It’s interesting because it’s been over a decade since the last Puss in Boots. We knew that we didn’t want to just tell another sequel. We wanted this to feel like it brought the nostalgia, the love for these characters, but also went to some new territory, and maybe showed you a new side of the characters as well.”