Simon Wells
English film director and animator
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Sep 25, 2026
EP 325 - 'The Forgotten Island' - Simon Wells - Storyboard Artist
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8:16Jawad MirHOST
Yeah, I think it's harder to do something original, right? Like with Puss in Boots 2 and Croods 2, the world was already created, the characters were there, which, you know, may sound easy but it's hard but to do something like forgotten island you know in terms of the story and the bold steps they took in dialogue in animation it's it's obviously you know you can credit universal frameworks and whatnot but the vision that they had was something that they probably had to go through a lot of obstacles and hurdles

Simon WellsGUEST
oh man yeah i mean you know First off, you just got to pitch the idea of the movie.

Simon WellsGUEST
It's like, well, it's about these two girls and they grow up together and one of them is going to go off to college.

Simon WellsGUEST
And just before they go off to college, they find this magical portal to a magical realm.

Simon WellsGUEST
And this is going to be a commercial movie that's going to appeal to the whole family and everyone.
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14:29Jawad MirHOST
talk to me about the sequences the scenes that you were responsible from the scratch or you kind of came in afterwards i would love to hear some of those uh
Simon Wells & Phil Morris - LNP617
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Simon WellsGUEST
Which, which, well, it's strange, 'cause my father's father, Frank, um, HG's younger son, actually was an art director in the British film business, but, um, but not terribly successful.

Simon WellsGUEST
[laughs] And, uh, so, uh, you know, uh, and it, it's strange, it never occurred to me to go into the film business.
The Macro Brief - Europe's dovish turn?
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Simon WellsGUEST
I think everything has to be heavily caveated on the fact that we're assuming here in the base case that energy follows the futures curve.

Simon WellsGUEST
But if it does, the peak of inflation will probably be about half a percentage point below where we previously thought, peaking at around 3.4, something like that around the turn of the year.

Simon WellsGUEST
Now, if the peak in inflation is lower, the risks of second round effects on wages and then prices are lower, and the indirect effects of energy through food prices and non-labor costs on services, things like that, that should be lower too.

Simon WellsGUEST
So this should give the central banks a bit more confidence to be a bit more dovish.
Europe’s dovish turn?
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Simon WellsGUEST
I think everything has to be heavily caveated on the fact that we're assuming here in the base case that energy follows the futures curve.

Simon WellsGUEST
But if it does, the peak of inflation will probably be about half a percentage point below where we previously thought.

Simon WellsGUEST
peaking at around 3.4 something like that around the turn of the year now if the peak in inflation is lower the risks of second round effects on wages and then prices are lower and the indirect effects of energy through food prices and non-labor costs on services things like that that should be lower too so this should give the central banks a bit more confident to be a bit more dovish So what I'm expecting is that by the time it gets to the sharp end of the next decisions, be that September or December, if energy has followed the futures curve, it will probably be projecting inflation to be sub-target.

Simon WellsGUEST
Now, given the lags in monetary policy, if you then hike rates back end of the year, it's not going to be until mid-2028 before that has peak effects.

