The Upcoming Pixar/Disney Discussion Thread

[Ezee E]

With Jurassic World out earlier this year, this couldn't have been timed any better.

[number8]

*shrug*

[Dukefrukem]

Is the middle one a movie or just a Pixar graphic?

[transmogrifier]

Is the middle one a movie or just a Pixar graphic?

It's the only one without a "Coming Soon" label, so probably the latter.

[TGM]

Well, there's precisely ONE movie in that lineup that I'm looking forward to at least...

[Dukefrukem]

Well, there's precisely ONE movie in that lineup that I'm looking forward to at least...

Incredibles 2 / Brad Bird?

[transmogrifier]

Ranked in terms of me caring about them:

1. Finding Dory
2. Toy Story 4
3. Incredibles 2
4. The Good Dinosaur







5. Cars 3

[Dukefrukem]

1. The Good Dinosaur
2. Incredibles 2
3. Finding Dory






4. Cars 3
5. Toy Story 4

[Peng]

So apparently the "love story" for Toy Story 4 is going to be about Woody and Bo Peep. Hmm.

[TGM]

Incredibles 2 / Brad Bird?

The Good Dinosaur actually, which looks incredible already. Though I suppose The Incredibles 2 would be the next I'm looking forward to, as it's the only one that feels like a sequel isn't entirely unnecessary.

Truth be told, though, I honestly don't care one way or the other about Cars 3. I'm well aware that franchise exists purely as a merchandising cash cow to fund their better projects and nothing more, so, whatever. Make all of the Cars movies for all i give a shit. Those other sequels, though, bah...

[Watashi]

The Good Dinosaur footage wrecked me. Like, tears rolling down. This film looks like the first half of WALL-E but as a whole film. Also, it seems to be some sort of dinosaur western?

The Finding Dory footage fell flat. I never saw the need for a sequel and I don't really care.

As for Disney Animation, Moana looks wonderful.

[number8]

The Good Dinosaur is the only one I'm looking forward to based on its merit, also.

I'm cool with another Incredibles just because since the first one, we have been subjected to three bad attempts at a Fantastic Four movie, and to release a sequel now would be a nice way to wipe the slate clean.

I don't understand why Finding Dory and Toy Story 4 are happening.

[Henry Gale]

I mean, I've basically loved every Pixar sequel to date, with the exception of Cars 2 - which is the one thing they've made I simply dislike outright - so in a way I do trust that if they are going about making new installments of any of their beloved series, it's because they want to rather than just because they can (like, it'll have taken what, 13 years for Incredibles II?) aside from Cars, but even then I can't really find it in myself to get excited for Dory or Toy Story 4.

I really like what they've been doing with the latter with the seasonal TV specials (especially Terror), and if that had been the ongoing tradition for the series, it'd have been left in a beautiful place.

What ever happened to their Day of the Dead movie? Did The Book of Life's existence squash it? [EDIT: Ok, a two-second Google search has told me it is still coming and it is now called Coco. A non-sequel, guys!]

[megladon8]

Weren't there a lot of problems during production of The Good Dinosaur?

Maybe I'm misremembering but didn't they at one point completely wipe the slate cleans and start over with a new director?

[Henry Gale]

Weren't there a lot of problems during production of The Good Dinosaur?

Maybe I'm misremembering but didn't they at one point completely wipe the slate cleans and start over with a new director?

Yup. Nearly the entire voice cast was replaced too. The characters ages and designs ere significantly altered, the focus of the story shifted, and the movie ended up being delayed a year because of it (the reason in 2014 there was no Pixar release for a calender year since 2003 and we now have two releases from them within one for the first time ever.)

This also happened with Toy Story 2 (and the first one really, but not sure that counts), Ratatouille and Brave. The key difference being that for the last of those, Chapman left Pixar outright as a result, and with the other two, the directors and key writers behind it remained in the creative process, which is what seems to have also happened with The Good Dinosaur.

Animated films are the one medium of filmmaking where such upheavals can actually be conducive to its success, compared to live action-filmed projects where the pieces are already cemented once post-production comes into play. (From this summer, the best cases would be Fury Road and Rogue Nation, who were doing re-shoots over the course of years or weeks up until its release, respectively. The worst case scenario being everything I've read about Fantastic Four and its production.) And that stark difference is basically what hit Stanton on John Carter. He screened an assembly cut for the Pixar core story heads / brain-trust and they went piece by piece how they would go about making it better, but they couldn't just re-storyboard the whole thing and animate it all, they'd have to have spent untold millions of dollars, re-calibrate schedules of actors, secure locations and justify it outside of themselves to Walt Disney Pictures. Ultimately there were reshoots, but obviously only for a handful of sequences, connective bits, and whatever couldn't just be done through ADR or effects work.

If something is obviously faltering in animation, I'm in no way against the filmmakers themselves being the ones to find those ways to realize they need to fix it. And Pixar is one of the few cases where the studio is also the artist. They've become a collective auteur at this point.

[MadMan]

They should have made two more Incredibles movies by this point.

[Skitch]

They should have made two more Incredibles movies by this point.

This.

[Dukefrukem]

get ready for an "unforgettable adventure" Get it?

[Henry Gale]

Didn't realize Dory was coming so soon. Crazy we're getting three Pixar movies within 12 months. Even if one of them disappoints, there's two others. Couldn't say that the year Cars 2 or even Brave came out.

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't even know they were making this.

[number8]

"A remake of the '70s Disney musical Pete's Dragon by the producer of Upstream Color and the director of Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is a sentence I can type all day.

[Watashi]

David Lowery goes to the New Beverly a lot. He seems like a cool dude.

[Dukefrukem]

[Henry Gale]

Maybe people already knew this, but I kept hearing Idris Elba's voice as one of the seals in the Finding Dory TV spots and casually wondered who the other one was..

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