Born in Lynn, Indiana, Ethan Johnson . When asked in an interview about why he was remaking the Goodtimes Entertainment Rudolph movie rather than the Rankin-Bass version, Ethan answered, "At first, when I had planned to do the script, I wanted to do the Rankin-Bass version with a few aspects of the Goodtimes one, but then after a couple years I began to lose interest and sort of do the other way around."