The Good Dinosaur

[frankf3]

It's official, Bob Peterson is OFF The Good Dinosaur. Ed Catmull even spoke in an interview on the situation.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... 9321.story

[FigmentJedi]

John Lasseter caught the same virus that George Lucas got that transforms the victim's neck into a parasitic entity that destroys the ability to make good creative decisions.

[jazzflower92]

Oh, brother.

If the internet was back in Walt's time I have a feeling that the fans would have destroyed him for every decision he made. And believe me he made some decisions some fans would have been turned off by. I might be in the minority but calling him the worst thing that has ever happened to Disney is going to be overreacting. The same article said he was still at the studio but only taken off the project.

[Jules]

I wish I was psychiatrist with a Lasseter as my patient so that I could perform hypnosis on him and try to find out what it is in him that drives him to continually replace directors at two supposedly "director-driven studios" even at the last moments, when films are nearing completion.

[Disney's Divinity]

Oh, brother.

If the internet was back in Walt's time I have a feeling that the fans would have destroyed him for every decision he made. And believe me he made some decisions some fans would have been turned off by. I might be in the minority but calling him the worst thing that has ever happened to Disney is going to be overreacting.

I wouldn't call him the worst thing, but I personally don't consider him a "good" thing to have happened to Disney, although they are doing better financially, I guess (although I wonder if that has more to do with the fact that they went 3D rather than got Lasseter).

And, tbh, I don't necessarily like Walt too much either, from what we know of him, so it's not like there's someone off limits.

[Tristy]

I wish I was psychiatrist with a Lasseter as my patient so that I could perform hypnosis on him and try to find out what it is in him that drives him to continually replace directors at two supposedly "director-driven studios" even at the last moments, when films are nearing completion.

Because it apparently worked well on Ratatouille so therefore since he is John Lasseter, the guy in charge of Pixar, company who would make every single movie be a hit with critics, he is bound to be right all the time.

[estefan]

Oh, brother.

If the internet was back in Walt's time I have a feeling that the fans would have destroyed him for every decision he made. And believe me he made some decisions some fans would have been turned off by. I might be in the minority but calling him the worst thing that has ever happened to Disney is going to be overreacting.

I wouldn't call him the worst thing, but I personally don't consider him a "good" thing to have happened to Disney, although they are doing better financially, I guess (although I wonder if that has more to do with the fact that they went 3D rather than got Lasseter).

And, tbh, I don't necessarily like Walt too much either, from what we know of him, so it's not like there's someone off limits.

Even Walt Disney was prone to replacing talents at times. Bill Peet wrote a whole draft of The Jungle Book and Terry Gilkyson wrote a bunch of songs and Walt threw all of that out (minus The Bear Necessities) and fired both of them from the project. Of course, he didn't do that less than a year prior to the release date.

[Sotiris]

I don't have an idealistic image of Disney like most fans seem to. He was not infallible. It's OK to criticize some of his work or decisions.

[Semaj]

Maybe Pixar should try to make a feature without a director, since the director seems to have little leverage anymore. At some point, people are going to dread taking the director's chair.

[Sotiris]

Bob Peterson tweeted about the Good Dinosaur on June 24th (that's when he stopped tweeting altogether) which means he must have been removed from the director's chair very recently.

[FigmentJedi]

Bob Peterson tweeted about the Good Dinosaur on June 24th (that's when he stopped tweeting altogether) which means he must have been removed from the director's chair very recently.

Ugh, that comment linking to that terrible take on the Pixar Timeline Theory that thinks Monsters Inc is Time Travel rather then alternate dimensions which the filmmakers have confirmed several times...

[disneyboy20022]

Ugh, that comment linking to that terrible take on the Pixar Timeline Theory that thinks Monsters Inc is Time Travel rather then alternate dimensions which the filmmakers have confirmed several times...

Did they confirm it's true or not true?

Also for people wondering what it is FigmentJedi is talking about

http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/

[Sotiris]

I just realized that 6 out of 15 Pixar films had a director change and they all left Pixar after that. A director-driven studio indeed. It drives the directors away.

• Toy Story 2: Ash Brannon replaced by John Lasseter
• Ratatouille: Jan Pinkava replaced by Brad Bird
• Cars 2: Brad Lewis replaced by John Lasseter
• Brave: Brenda Chapman replaced by Mark Andrews
• Monsters University: Doug Sweetland replaced by Dan Scanlon
• The Good Dinosaur: Bob Peterson replaced by Peter Sohn and the Pixar Brain Trust
• When Newt was cancelled the director Gary Rydstrom left Pixar too

[Kyle]

Either I had forgotten or never knew Doug Sweetland was on monsters University. I knew he was directing something, just didn't know what it was. What has he been up to lately I wonder? Sorry, getting off topic there.

But gah, this does bode well for Bob.

[FigmentJedi]

Ugh, that comment linking to that terrible take on the Pixar Timeline Theory that thinks Monsters Inc is Time Travel rather then alternate dimensions which the filmmakers have confirmed several times...

Did they confirm it's true or not true?

Also for people wondering what it is FigmentJedi is talking about

http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/

There was a Pixar employee that found it amusing at least, but as far as the top brass is concerned, people are just grasping at the straws of what they see are just cute references.

At any rate, here's my timeline, using some material from the MI DVD and some of Boom's comics in addition to the films. Also, I see Cars as being a separate universe from everything else because making it post-apocalyptic is pushing a square peg in a round hole:

http://disney-expanded-universe.tumblr. ... r-timeline

[Sotiris]

From what I hear, there will likely be decisions soon as to who will take over the film's production. Likely in the next two or so weeks. it is unknown as to who Lasseter will choose for certain, but odds are that Peter Sohn may get the go or possibly Mark Andrews. Now, this isn't final, it's not written in stone. It's just the vibe the Bothans are getting from other Pixar employees as to who they are betting on in their Fantasy Film Maker Pool. It all depends on who John and Ed get a feel has the right handle on the scenes they 're working on. So think of what is going in now as a test for the future director of the film.

Source: http://www.blueskydisney.com/2013/08/tr ... brain.html

[PatrickvD]

A director driven studio basically means they drive directors out

[estefan]

I don't know whether Hunter is joking or not, but it's hilarious to think these firings are so common at Pixar, that they have regular pools and betting games to guess who will take over the projects.

And I really hope it's not Mark Andrews. It would be another really easy game of "Who directed this sequence?"

[Sotiris]

at the second tweet.

Been a tough time, but I am good - thankful for family and hilarious friends. On to future projects. Long live TGD. It's gonna be great!

And what's with John Kahrs stealing my thunder?!!

[Kyle]

Yeah that got a chuckle out of me.

Wish he'd tell us if his next projects will be at pixar or not. Im leaning on no, but it could go either way.