{"id":740648,"date":"2026-07-03T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740648\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:02:11","slug":"minions-monsters-director-says-minions-never-worked-for-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740648\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Minions &#038; Monsters&#8217; Director Says Minions Never Worked For Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/minions\/\" id=\"auto-tag_minions\" data-tag=\"minions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minions<\/a> have served some of history and fiction\u2019s ultimate baddies, even they draw the line at fascism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMinions &amp; Monsters co-writer\/director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pierre-coffin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pierre-coffin\" data-tag=\"pierre-coffin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Coffin<\/a>, who also returns to voice the little yellow creatures, recently addressed a wild fan theory after 2015\u2019s Minions revealed they served Napoleon in the 19th century, leading many to wonder where they were during <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/world-war-ii\/\" id=\"auto-tag_world-war-ii\" data-tag=\"world-war-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI knew you were going to ask me that question. Shame on you,\u201d Coffin teased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/minions-questions-do-minions-reproduce-can-they-die-did-they-work-for-hitler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Polygon<\/a> at the thought of the Minions working for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/adolf-hitler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adolf-hitler\" data-tag=\"adolf-hitler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adolf Hitler<\/a>. \u201cI think they were in that cave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough the first Minions movie had them hibernating in a cave from 1812 to 1968, the interviewer noted that Minions &amp; Monsters establishes that there are multiple tribes of Minions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was trying to avoid the answer,\u201d said Coffin, noting he\u2019s fully aware of the online theories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo the Minions that we know from Minions 1 were stuck in the cave,\u201d he added. \u201cThese ones, I don\u2019t know where they were, but they were not part of the Big History.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMinions &amp; Monsters, now in theaters, finds the Minions in 1920s Hollywood, where they must save the world after unleashing monsters in their attempt to cast a monster movie. In the process, they team up with the green creature Goomi (Trey Parker).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Minions have served some of history and fiction\u2019s ultimate baddies, even they draw the line at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[28967,88,272340,307614,206,318337,28833],"class_list":["post-740648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-entertainment","tag-minions","tag-minions-monsters","tag-movies","tag-pierre-coffin","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}