Joe Dante’s Gremlins is one of the best ‘80s movies, so when Gizmo got the spinoff treatment with his own animated series last year, fans were enthralled to see Mogwais in animated form.

Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat swamp forest, where humans get tangled and bogged down, and visibility ...