If you want info, go directly to the source! Here is creators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman thoughts on the movie.
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8. My favorite movie of yours has to be All Dogs Go To Heaven. What exactly inspired you to make a dog movie with Burt Reynolds? Why New Orleans?
Answer: I introduced the title to Gary and John back in 1987. I had remembered that when I was a kid, a teacher of mine showed us a book called, “All Dogs Go To Heaven” thought it was a great title, but didn’t remember the story. When I researched the title, it turned out to just be an anthology of dogs in general, and not a story. So, we constructed a story, several before we got it right. One of the writers had selected New Orleans as the location. We thought that that location sounded interesting. No one had done an animated film that took place in New Orleans.
Now, Burt Reynolds - back in 1983, when we were making the video games, Burt’s agent called us and wanted to meet. We went to Malibu where he was shooting “The Man Who Loved Women”. He explained that he love The Secret of NIMH and what we did with Dom DeLuise’s character Jeremy. And, that he wanted us to make a film with him, where he is a junkyard dog and is a jerk, and about halfway thru the film his “friends” would hold up a mirror to show him what a jerk he is and he would have to work thru the rest of the film to do things to redeem himself. We called the project Canine Mysteries. It didn’t go anywhere.
In 1987 when we all agreed on the idea of All Dogs Go to Heaven, we contacted Burt to see if he wanted to be the voice of the lead character, Charlie. He said yes.
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