Tomorrowland

[Pokeholic_Prince]

This sounds promising. Brad Bird is one of my favorite directors. He really knows how to handle sci-fi with action and MI4 was one of my fav movies of 2011. He really has shown that he can do more than animation. I've loved all his movies and I'm pretty excited for this, 1906, and any other projects he has planned. "Bradgasim"

[disneyboy20022]

Clooney? Cant stand him. Why couldn't they have gone with someone not so overused?

I disagree. Clooney traditionally stars in low-key dramas. The Ocean's franchise and his years on ER could be considered the only projects with widespread appeal. Most other films he's starred in were Oscar-bait melodramas. So I don't seen he's overused when he only stars in smaller projects that he often times produces himself.

A sci-fi Disney tentpole feature is new ground for Clooney and his place in Hollywood.

As long as he doesn't pull out a Disney Credit Card and says he never leaves Tomorrow Land without out like some certain other movie that came out in the 90s

[Avaitor]

I disagree. Clooney traditionally stars in low-key dramas. The Ocean's franchise and his years on ER could be considered the only projects with widespread appeal. Most other films he's starred in were Oscar-bait melodramas. So I don't seen he's overused when he only stars in smaller projects that he often times produces himself.

A sci-fi Disney tentpole feature is new ground for Clooney and his place in Hollywood.

As long as he doesn't pull out a Disney Credit Card and says he never leaves Tomorrow Land without out like some certain other movie that came out in the 90s

I dunno, that'd make for a great little easter egg.

But I don't think that's a particular experience Clooney was to remind us of.

[disneyboy20022]

Brad Bird's Tomorrowland is the big new mystery on the block in Hollywood. Originally titled 1952, the project is a collaboration between the Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol director and Damon Lindelof, but all details about the plot have been kept under wraps. The history that has been going around is that Lindelof went into Disney one day and was given a banker's box with the label "1952" on it. After looking through the box he was suddenly inspired. But what is the story that he was inspired to come up with?

Walt Disney historian Jim Hill says that he has a theory and posted it on his official website. And it all begins with this photograph that Bird posted on his Twitter feed a couple weeks back:

After Bird released that shot, the official Disney fan club, D23, analyzed the box and its contents and came up with a detailed list of 12 different objects that can be seen. It was from this box that Hill developed his theory, and it's about how the US government once tried to use Walt Disney and his family-friendly ways to tell the populations of both America and the world that aliens and unidentified flying objects actually exist. Crazy? Just wait for the details.

Hill's story ties in with a tale that former Imagineer Ward Kimball "loved to tell as its jumping-off point." It all began with Disneyland TV series , which aired an episode called Man in Space. The show was so popular - finding 42 million viewers - that not only is it said it inspired the US to enter the space race, it led government officials to approach Disney about making a "UFO Picture." According to the story, the members of the government believed that Disney's name, reputation, and tone delivering such devastating news would prevent panic and chaos. Eventually the project was cancelled when the government backed out of using real UFO footage.

It's a very cool idea and a certainly a story I would love to see play out on the big screen, but would this mean that George Clooney, who was previously announced to star, would be playing Walt Disney? If that's the case, will it be weird that Tom Hanks will also be playing the legendary studio head in the upcoming Mary Poppins drama Saving Mr. Banks? A very interesting theory at the very least.

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[MadasaHatter]

From Ain't it Cool News:

Hugh Laurie Adds The Villain Element To TOMORROWLAND!!

Published at: Feb. 13, 2013, 12:32 p.m. CST

The Kidd here...

If only we had a better sense of what Brad Bird's TOMORROWLAND was about, there'd be more information to go along with this casting news, but Disney continues to maintain a high level of secrecy surrounding the project written by Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen, so just the basics will have to do.

Hugh Laurie is in talks to join TOMORROWLAND in some type of antagonistic role, opposite George Clooney, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in a position to play the villain in MGM's ROBOCOP reboot not too long ago, but that deal never materialized, Michael Keaton took the part, and it left Laurie with an opening in his schedule that has now led to this. We all win (well, except on that ROBOCOP front, but whatever).

I never had a chance to get into HOUSE, but just seeing Laurie in action as the unique doctor in commercials was enough to let me know that I was probably missing out on one hell of a performance... and he didn't get nominated six times for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series character for nothing... so this is clearly a good addition to the cast and a major score for TOMORROWLAND.

I'm still intrigued by what TOMORROWLAND's focus may be, and I think JimHillMedia's speculation raises some interesting questions and would make for an intriguing motion picture as far as the subject matter is concerned... but, if Hill is right, I'm not certain where Laurie would fit into things as a bad guy, unless it was someone in the government who may be trying to keep the existence of UFOs a secret. Then again, that assumes the movie is even about UFOs or related to UFOs or... oh, hell... let the speculation begin again.

-Billy Donnelly

"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"

Original:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60958

[Nymbus]

Is this the first plot synopsis of "Tomorrowland"? It seems strange that a book about the movie would be released 7 months before the film's actual release but here's what the book from Amazon says:

The year is 2125 and the Magellan Science Academy has given two lucky cadets "golden tickets" to join a team of space explorers on a special field trip to journey 24 hours into the future--straight into "Tomorrowland." But when their mission goes unexpectedly wrong, the two young cadets must band together with a miniature flying saucer sidekick to save themselves, the rest of their crew, and the entire universe before time runs out!

http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Brya ... rds=disney

Now it says that the series is "Tomorrowland", so it could in fact be a prequel to the film. Who knows?

[FigmentJedi]

Over the last few months, Disney has had an Alternate Reality Game campaign going on called The Optimist that takes an alternative history look at Tomorrowland and the 1964 World's Fair Disney attractions, and the 1952 box was prominently featured in some of said online material.

There's a Micechat thread that's been chronicling the game so far. http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-r ... -know.html

And now, filming for Tomorrowland is about to begin and they're building a 1964 World's Fair set.

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2013/08/t ... mist-game/

[ajmrowland]

Why haven't I heard of this before? Sounds fun!

[Elladorine]

I just found an interesting (and relevant) article by The Oatmeal from the end of September: Is Disney making a movie about Nikola Tesla?

As an added bonus, here is The Oatmeal's comic about Tesla, which is what apparently prompted Disney to contact him as a consultant.

[HarryCanyon]

Sounds interesting especially with a fantastic director in hands of directing

[blackcauldron85]

‘Before Tomorrowland’ Prequel Story Details Offer Additional Insight to Film
http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-bef ... ilm-72699/

[Disneyphile]

First photos and more details.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/10/08/f ... orrowland/#

[frankf3]

The teaser trailer is out. Looks pretty cool, especially the last shot.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k59gXTWf-A[/youtube]

[PatrickvD]

Looks great.

I have high expectations for this given the talent involved. And Clooney in a Disney film? It seems weird, but I have no doubt it will work. Brad Bird has earned my trust.

[blackcauldron85]

Info from Comic Con:
http://laughingplace.com/w/articles/201 ... live-blog/

[DisneyFan09]

Brad Bird has earned my trust.

To be honest, the only time that Brad really impressed me was in "The Iron Giant". That film was brilliant and deserved the positive buzz. Otherwise I wasn't impressed by either "The Incredibles" or "Ratatouille". Both were enjoyable films, but none of them had the same quality that "Giant" had. "The Incredibles" was entertaining, but not particularly memorable and "Ratatouille" dragged in many places. I'm probably going to be scolded by many Pixar fans, but that's how I feel about those two movies.

[Disneyphile]

First teaser trailer.
http://6abc.com/entertainment/disney-re ... nd/343879/

[blackcauldron85]

I wasn't too, too interested in this until now. Looks like this will be really good.

[ce1ticmoon]

To be honest, the only time that Brad really impressed me was in "The Iron Giant". That film was brilliant and deserved the positive buzz. Otherwise I wasn't impressed by either "The Incredibles" or "Ratatouille". Both were enjoyable films, but none of them had the same quality that "Giant" had. "The Incredibles" was entertaining, but not particularly memorable and "Ratatouille" dragged in many places. I'm probably going to be scolded by many Pixar fans, but that's how I feel about those two movies.

Honestly, as good as The Iron Giant is, I think both The Incredibles and Ratatouille are superior films. They are two of the best Pixar films IMO, with the exception of the original Toy Story. Along with Ghost Protocol being the best of the M:I films, I have some pretty high expectations for Tomorrowland.

[DisneyFan09]

Honestly, as good as The Iron Giant is, I think both The Incredibles and Ratatouille are superior films. They are two of the best Pixar films IMO, with the exception of the original Toy Story. Along with Ghost Protocol being the best of the M:I films, I have some pretty high expectations for Tomorrowland.

Fine. We can agree to disagree.