The Good Dinosaur

[PixarFan2006]

I am intrigued by both films and am glad Pixar is getting back to original ideas again as opposed to sequels.

The whole mind thing sounds like an interesting idea especially (if they do not give the body organs eyes and a mouth that is).

[milojthatch]

That's sounds interesting! But 2014.. That's 3 years from now..

Don't worry, it would come soon enough. Time goes so fast!

[disneyprincess11]

That's sounds interesting! But 2014.. That's 3 years from now..

Don't worry, it would come soon enough. Time goes so fast!

^^This. I'm going to be a senior in high school, and high school is ending so fast. College will be the same, so this will come out when I'm a sophmore/junior in college. So, this will come fast 4 me!

[Sotiris]

Enrico Casarosa, the director of the Pixar short 'La Luna' is working as head of story on the 'Untitled Pixar Movie about Dinosaurs'.

Q: You can’t tell me what you’re working on right now, can you?

A: No, I can, actually. I can. I’ve been the head of story for quite a few months on Pixar’s Untitled Dinosaur Movie, which is directed by Bob Peterson and co-directed by Pete Sohn. I’ve been working on it for a few months and it’s been a lot of fun. They’re a laugh riot. So we’re having a good time.

Being the head of story is a new experience for me, so it’s been fun. And they have a wonderful, wonderful premise for all this. So it’s been a lot of fun.

Source: http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/q ... of-la.html

Q: Continuing to look towards the future, I see that you’re going to be head of story on an upcoming Pixar film. Is that one of the unannounced ones or one of those we have heard about?

A: It’s one of the announced ones. I’ve been working for almost ten months on the Untitled Pixar Film About Dinosaurs. It’s being directed by Bob Peterson, you know they announced it at [the] D23 [Expo]. It’s been a lot of fun. It’s being co-directed by Pete Sohn. Both those guys are amazing. It’s been a lot of fun to collaborate and help them. From directing a short to going back to features is honestly a little jarring.

Features are really hard. They’re much bigger puzzles to solve. So, I felt very fortunate to have had this year and a half to focus on the shorts. They feel like you’re in this perfect little sandbox to do a personal artistic movie. Features need to do that, but also fill a lot of seats, so the art and the commerce – there’s both of those sides in the movies we make in the features, and even the shorts. But I feel like the shorts are a little free-er to hang on the artistic side. We don’t have to sell millions of tickets.

Source: http://pixartimes.com/2011/09/16/interv ... s-la-luna/

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Not much about the story has been mentioned yet (I just hope it's not about some long necked dinosaurs fighting against some evil T-Rex), but what can we except from look and design?
Both Disney and Pixar, and probably other studios as well, use to go through old illustrations and movies when they are working on a new project. A lot of the modern illustrations are impressive, but what I dislike about TV-series like Age of the Dinosaurs of whatever they ara called, it that they are made to look as realistic as possible.
Personally, I prefer the older illustrations in books and magazines. The kind of images of a scene from the Jurassic or another era where dinosaurs and other creatures are painted in a way that makes it very moody and atmospheric. I guess most of these were made before 1970.
Just me thinking loud.

[Sotiris]

There is already a thread for this film.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Seems like it is taking place in an alternative timeline, and that the style has alrerady been chosen.

I wonder if Dougal Dixon (The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution) is involved in this:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&h ... 8l78l1l1l0

[DisneyFan09]

I wonder how this film is going to be like. If its going to be a film like Disney's Dinosaur, a dramatic epic with photorealistic dinosaurs or something else.

[Sotiris]

The movie has now been re-named "The Good Dinosaur" and is scheduled for release on May 30, 2014.

I'm not a fan of the new name; it sounds like a parody of "The Good Wife".

[Kyle]

Yeah, I honestly liked the temp name better, even though it was obviously a joke.

[DisneyFan09]

The movie has now been re-named "The Good Dinosaur" and is scheduled for release on May 30, 2014.

I'm not a fan of the new name; it sounds like a parody of "The Good Wife".

Where's your source?

[Sotiris]

Where's your source?

It's been reported everywhere online including Pixar's official twitter account. Google it.

[Patrick]

So I was browsing through Brian Kesinger's blog and noticed this post with some dinosaur sketches from October last year. He said they were from a story meeting.. Brian worked on Winnie the Pooh and Tangled recently. Any chance he jumped ship over to Pixar and is involved with this film?

http://willdraw4fun.blogspot.com.au/201 ... tches.html

[Polizzi]

Pixar Unveils 2013-2015 Slate

http://animationtidbits.tumblr.com/post ... 2015-slate

[Sotiris]

Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' Will Warm Up a Prehistoric Reputation
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/ ... saur-.html

So often typecast as witless and cold-blooded, dinosaurs are about to get an image rehab in Hollywood, courtesy of Pixar.

"It's time to do a movie where you get to know the dinosaur, what it's really like to be a dinosaur and to be with a dinosaur," said Bob Peterson, director of the animation studio's upcoming movie "The Good Dinosaur."

Peterson, who served as codirector and writer on "Up," said the inspiration for the movie came from a childhood visit to the World's Fair where he was awed by some dinosaur animatronics.

In "The Good Dinosaur," which will be codirected by Peter Sohn and produced by John Walker, an asteroid never hit the Earth and dinosaurs still roam.

In an interview at the studio's Emeryville offices recently, Peterson, Sohn and Walker -- who are in the midst of Pixar's secretive story-crafting phase -- kept key plot details such as geologic era and starring dino species under wraps, but hinted at some themes they'll be exploring.

Sohn said they are toying with the idea of what dinosaurs represent today -- something anachronistic or resistant to change. If there's a "good" dinosaur, after all, there have to be bad ones. "The title is deceptively simple," Sohn said. "It has more meaning than it seems."

A piece of concept art shared at Disney's D23 conference last August showed what appeared to be a silhouette of a small child with a dinosaur, suggesting that dinosaurs and people will be sharing the planet in the movie, but the filmmakers didn't confirm that.

Peterson said the crew had steeped itself in research for the film, visiting various natural history and science museums and examining fossils and bones to help them create their own dinosaur society and characters.

The director said he has been writing "The Good Dinosaur" vagabond-style, toting his laptop in his car and stopping at various spots in Northern California as inspiration strikes.

"So if there's a bunch of dinosaurs in a Whole Foods parking lot in this movie, you'll understand why," said Walker.

[Sotiris]

[Bob Peterson and Peter Sohn] came up with this idea that theorized “what if the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, missed earth and dinosaurs kept living”? It’s really a great story. They are very funny dinosaurs; they are kind of cartoony but they are still dinosaurs, they are not walking around with clothes on or anything like that. We focused mostly on the plant-eaters, the herbivores and not the carnivores. Their society becomes more of an agrarian society meaning farmers. They become farmers.

It’s a very funny story about a certain way of life that a young dinosaur has trouble fitting into and he ends up going on this quest in order to... He messes up and he has to put everything right by going on this quest. On this quest he meets another character that is an outcast from his society too, so the two of them form this bond and it becomes this unique story. It’s hard to describe. It’s a very special, very emotional story but it’s so quirky and nutty. That’s really the hallmark of Bob Peterson’s and Peter Sohn’s talent. Bob Peterson is truly one of the funniest people I’ve met and it’s coming through with this story. It’s unlike any other dinosaur picture you’ve seen ‘cause it doesn’t fit in your typical…what you think dinosaurs are.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0QkA01GAY

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I'm currently taking a survey, and it asks if I've heard of this film, which gives three voice actors: John Ratzenberger, Jason Alexander, and Joan Rivers. I just thought that that was interesting since I didn't think it had been mentioned before (unless I just didn't see it).

[Kyle]

Joan Rivers?

[DisneyDude2010]

Me neither

Edit:
Lil Wayne to star in The Good Dinosaur??

http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3089-t ... -dinosaur/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979388/

Good luck to him, A lot of rappers did voice over in Ice Age 4 so I'm sure this will be great for him.

[SWillie!]

I can't wait for Duster's reaction to Lil Wayne in a Disney film.

I think it's a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible idea. I hope it doesn't work out.