Animated American (ImageMovers)

ichabod · Post by **ichabod** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:44 pm

From: <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR111795 ... Variety</a>

Disney has acquired "Animated American," a film that will use a mix of live-action and animation to illustrate the difficulty teens experience trying to fit in.
Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment and ImageMovers partners Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke will produce.

Peter Ackerman will pen the script, about a misfit who's at sea when his girlfriend leaves town after graduation and he's forced to find himself. Protag will be animated, while the world around him will be live-action.

That mix was employed by Zemeckis and Disney in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Zemeckis and Rapke recently moved their ImageMovers label from DreamWorks to an overall deal at Disney.

Wonderlicious · Post by **Wonderlicious** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:15 pm

Random fact...Protag means every day in German.

Anyway, does anyone know if this will be a mix of CGI (or motion capture photography, considering Zemeckis is onboard) and live action or hand drawn animation and live action?

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:26 pm

Wonderlicious wrote:Random fact...Protag means every day in German.

It actually means per day and it's spelled pro Tag.

Wonderlicious · Post by **Wonderlicious** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:38 pm

Dottie wrote:It actually means per day and it's spelled pro Tag.

Damn. I got it wrong. And I'm doing German at university. Ouch.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:40 pm

Don't worry!!! "Das ist egal"

Aladdin from Agrabah · Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:44 pm

I love German.!..or I did 5 years ago, when I stopped to improve my level in English. But I wanna start again! Ich bin frό'h wenn Ich mit Deutsche UDers spreche!!

Sotiris · Post by **Sotiris** » Wed May 18, 2011 2:55 am

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Cooper will be producing a project called 'Animated American' for Walt Disney Pictures. Rob Edwards (The Princess and the Frog) will write the screenplay.

Similar to Zemeckis' own 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', 'Animated American' will involve a reality of both cartoons and live-action people. The plot follows a cartoon baby raised by "humans" who, on his 18th birthday, decides to go in search of his birth family.

Zemeckis currently is attached to numerous projects right now, including the drama Flight, a sequel to Roger Rabbit, another CGI/live action hybrid called How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack, and two time-travel films, Timeless and Replay.

Source: http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/186 ... Disney.htm

Victurtle · Post by **Victurtle** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:00 am

Better not be another mo-cap flop. I wonder how many millions Zemeckis has already lost Disney.

PatrickvD · Post by **PatrickvD** » Wed May 18, 2011 5:19 am

There's an insanely talented traditionally trained group of animators sitting around at WDAS doing nothing right now....

USE THEM.

estefan · Post by **estefan** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:22 am

This could work with the right script. Though the plotline sounds a bit similar to The Country Bears, hopefully they can stay clear of that mess.

But, this sounds a lot more plausible, in my opinion. With a lot more freedom.

Sotiris · Post by **Sotiris** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:40 am

I don't think that the animated character will be mo-capped because it won't contrast the real world enough. So, it will probably be CG. I wish it were hand-drawn, however.

KubrickFan · Post by **KubrickFan** » Wed May 18, 2011 9:13 am

Victurtle wrote:Better not be another mo-cap flop. I wonder how many millions Zemeckis has already lost Disney.

Another? He only produced one real flop.

Dr Frankenollie · Post by **Dr Frankenollie** » Wed May 18, 2011 9:41 am

Tristy · Post by **Tristy** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:41 pm

I have a confession: I did like A Christmas Carol. Not a big fan of the motion capture style but as long as the story is good, that's what matters. That said, I'm glad that Zemeckis is backing out of the Mo-cap it seems. He used to do a lot of live-action. Where did those days go?

Mickeyfan1990 · Post by **Mickeyfan1990** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:50 pm

At least the Roger Rabbit sequel isn't dead.

Mickeyfan1990 · Post by **Mickeyfan1990** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:09 pm

You know after reading 2 reports on this, it got me thinking; Could this be the Roger Rabbit sequel in disguise?

Also here's another link regarding on this project:
http://www.slashfilm.com/rob-edwards-wr ... -american/

skyler888 · Post by **skyler888** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:54 pm

i really like the sound of this project tbh

Toky · Post by **Toky** » Fri May 20, 2011 6:59 am

Mickeyfan1990 wrote:You know after reading 2 reports on this, it got me thinking; Could this be the Roger Rabbit sequel in disguise?

Also here's another link regarding on this project:
http://www.slashfilm.com/rob-edwards-wr ... -american/

I was thinking the same

Maybe Jessica got a baby and doesn't look hot anymore...

I even put a link with the reboot ralph project. what was that about actually? maybe this is the same movie...

Sotiris · Post by **Sotiris** » Fri May 20, 2011 7:32 am

This project was first announced (with the same title and with both Disney and Zemeckis involved) way back in 2006!

http://jedaniels-adventures.blogspot.co ... rican.html

ajmrowland · Post by **ajmrowland** » Fri May 20, 2011 12:21 pm

Victurtle wrote:Better not be another mo-cap flop. I wonder how many millions Zemeckis has already lost Disney.

if it is, at least it probably wont look as ugly.

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