Pixar's The Good Dinosaur

[Hyde]

Waayyy less excited about this now. I thought it would be about humans and dinosaurs co-existing..

 

[HighFivingMF]

Waayyy less excited about this now. I thought it would be about humans and dinosaurs co-existing..

It is. The humans just aren't very evolved.

 

[mongoose-mania]

I'm a bit less excited about this too. Was kind of hoping this would take place in a contemporary setting, which would really emphasize the "What if..." factor.

 

[Hyde]

It is. The humans just aren't very evolved.

I'm a bit less excited about this too. Was kind of hoping this would take place in a contemporary setting, which would really emphasize the "What if..." factor.

I meant something like that. Y'know, dinosaur theme parks, what animal rights groups would have to say about dinos like T-Rex's, all the moral dilemmas that come with it. Ton of potential there and a missed opportunity, IMO. Hopefully this will inspire another studio to pick up the pieces and make their own movie

 

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Pixar's "Good Dinosaur" Seeks New Helmer?

By Garth Franklin Tuesday August 27th 2013 06:33AM
Pixar and Disney animation chief John Lasseter has reportedly taken "The Good Dinosaur" director Bob Peterson off that project according to Blue Sky Disney
Pixar's major feature for next year, the film posits the idea that the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs actually missed the planet, as a result they continue to evolve.
Despite the departure, the film is not yet in turnaround, and is still attempting to meet its May 30th release date.
The studio hopes a new director will "be able to bring the project back in to better focus as the story wasn't coming together".

 

[terry78]

I wonder if he agreed with the consensus about the humans not being evolved.

 

[Hyde]

So is this another Ratatouille situation? What happened with that before Brad Bird came on?

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Brave got another director too. Hmm...

 

[Drizzle]

Yeah, but weren't Ratatouille and Brave still in the pre-production stages when they got new directors? This one is due out in nine months. This isn't good.

 

[jonathancrane]

The switch in directors does not bode well...

 

[Octoberist]

It really breaks the heart.

I mean, I'm more excited for 'The Upside Down' and the other future original films, but yeah, it's sad to see a dude like Bob being let go like this.

 

[Octoberist]

This makes me think about the Brain Trust..they can't do everything forever. Eventually they'll have to pass the torch to a new generation.

 

[SilentWarriorZ]

if this going to be 3D version of " We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story " then I simply don't care .

 

[Sawyer]

Pffft.... like that wouldn't be completely awesome.

 

[Hyde]

I'm not really a fan of the new guys Pixar are getting, either. Brave - new guy (wasn't good). Monsters University - new guy (pretty good but still not up to Pixar standard), and now another new guy Pete Sohn is likely coming on for this. Ugh. If Pete Docter walks from Inside Out...

 

[terry78]

Sohn isn't new, he's been on the team for a minute. He voiced Emile and Squishy respective and he storyboards. He's pretty familiar.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I am so over Pixar at this point. Brave was okay but it could have been much, much better. After Tangled and Wreck-it-Ralph Disney are where it's at. Of course someone on here told me that their animation division is being run by a former Pixar guy so I guess I'm not totally over Pixar.

I understand why they do it because they are a business but I am sick of all the sequels as well. I'm hoping this upcoming film turns out well but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[SuperT]

if this going to be 3D version of " We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story " then I simply don't care .

This story has like ZERO in common with "We're Back" other than having dinosaurs in it. lol

 

[Octoberist]

I am so over Pixar at this point. Brave was okay but it could have been much, much better. After Tangled and Wreck-it-Ralph Disney are where it's at. Of course someone on here told me that their animation division is being run by a former Pixar guy so I guess I'm not totally over Pixar.

I understand why they do it because they are a business but I am sick of all the sequels as well. I'm hoping this upcoming film turns out well but I'm not holding my breath.

I agree, but I'm also of two minds about it.

I think Pixar's talent pool and creative concepts are drying up right before our collective eyes. I think they're somewhat struggling, and while sure, Pixar has a history of replacing directors, but I think Pixar is in a different place now than 10 years ago. In fact, the whole animation industry has changed in the past decade. Plus, what happened to 'Brave' was just bad publicity.

I really think they really peaked at 'Up' and 'Wall-E' (and maybe Ratatouille), and to my eyes, haven't made any great movies since then. (I love Toy Story 3, but I'm talking about original content.)

Now you have new studios popping up left and right, and Hell, Pixar has to compete with itself with Disney's Animation Studio, which has released some of the more innovative and refreshing films in recent memory.

I love Pixar, but they need to regroup. I know they will, and have some great stuff coming up. But wow, it's gonna be slowburn till then.

 

[Hyde]

Sohn isn't new, he's been on the team for a minute. He voiced Emile and Squishy respective and he storyboards. He's pretty familiar.

I mean people like Lasseter (even though he made Cars 2), Unkrich, Anderson, Docter etc. I count Bob Peterson amongst those people too

 

[Hyde]

This is already being discussed on some other threads but here it is here, officially

'The Good Dinosaur' moved to 2015, leaving Pixar with no 2014 film

The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back "The Good Dinosaur," the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.

"The Good Dinosaur," which was to have hit theaters May 30, 2014, will now arrive Nov. 25, 2015, on the date "Finding Dory" was set to open. That movie, Andrew Stanton's "Finding Nemo" sequel, will now arrive in the summer of 2016.

"Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film," said Pixar's president, Ed Catmull. "Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time."

Pixar removed director Bob Peterson from "The Good Dinosaur" over the summer, as the movie's release date approached and several creative decisions had not been made. The movie is based on the premise that an asteroid never hit Earth, and dinosaurs and humans coexist.

After Peterson left "The Good Dinosaur," a team of people including Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, "Toy Story 3" director Lee Unkrich, "Brave" director Mark Andrews and the film's original co-director, Peter Sohn, began overseeing various sections of the movie. A replacement director has not yet been named.

Pixar, which typically releases one movie a year, has been moving toward its first year of releasing two movies. Pixar now plans to release two movies in 2015.

Before "The Good Dinosaur," the studio's next movie will be Pete Docter's "Inside Out," a risky project set inside the brain of a young girl. "Inside Out" is due June 19, 2015.

With budgets over $200 million and crews in the hundreds, that ramp-up in production puts a strain on the resources of the studio, according to Stanton.

"We can’t have the amount of labor it takes to do these movies at the same time because it becomes unsustainable economically," he said in an interview in June. "But it means if one director has a problem, everybody’s connected to the same bed sheet. You pull one end and it makes wrinkles in the other one. It’s a new problem."

An 18-month push-back. Yikes

 

[Octoberist]

it's weird that there's a page talking about this films delay and nothing on its official thread.

 

[Hyde]

that's what I'm here for

 

[TheVileOne]

I got to be honest, I was rather underwhelmed with what I saw at D23.

 

[Octoberist]

As a concept it's not that appealing. Then again, Toy Story wasn't either back in the day and that film is gold.