Future Pixar movies

[Rumpelstiltskin]

There seems to be different reasons for making the different movies at Pixar. Cars was mainly produced because Lasseter had always wanted to make a movie about cars. WALL-E sounds to be the most atypical Pixar movie so far, a future post-apocalyptic tale about a robot, which is why I'm looking forward to it.

As most probably have read by now, there will be few or non human voices, instead it will be mechanical sounds made to resemble dialogue. The animation will be done as if it was filmed with physical cameras.

One of the main reason for making this movie seems to be to explore the medium of air:

"Stanton said, 'Let’s do that with air. Let’s fix our lenses, let’s get the depth of field looking exactly how anthropomorphic lenses work and do all these tricks that make us have the same kind of dimensionality that we got on Nemo with an object out in the air and on the ground."


But if exploring new territories is one of the driving forces at Pixar, when will we have a movie that takes place in vacuum, for instance on the moon? That is very different from both air and water. With no atmosphere, we can see far into the horizon without the atmospheric effect on earth. Even if the sun shines, the sky is totally black. When someone are kicking up some dust, it behaves different than it would on earth.

Or what about a world inside a computer? Yeah, I know, Tron did it years back. But the technology has come a very long way since then, and bizarre, abstract and surreal worlds the makers of Tron couldn't even dream about (or at least not create) is now possible. (But Tron was really ahead of its time.)