Disney Live On wrote:Why dont we try 2D with 3D glasses and see if that works. The re-release of Lion King may assist in creating this kind of transition. 2D films with the 3D mapping always look amazing and could help raise the thrill factor of 2D for the wider audience. Just a thought
I like it. It'd be pretty interesting to see a brand new hand drawn film in 3d. I havnt seen the lion king of beauty and the beast yet, but everything Ive heard sounds great. the only downside is the line work has some odd distortion going on. Will have to see for myself but I expect its not a big issue.
I dont think Disney will think its a smart move though, in their minds if your going to go 3D you might as well go full 3d.
Anonymous #1 wrote:The Snow Queen IS in production, FWIW.
Anonymous #2 wrote:I ask you: Are you sure about it? I read that The Snow Queen was in development years ago and it was shelved in 2010 after the underperformance of The Princess and tha Frog. I hope to see Snow Queen. It's a great story and I think Disney could make a great movie about it.
Anonymous #3 wrote:Yes, Snow Queen IS in production.
Andreas Deja: When the studio announced…we had just started on Winnie the Pooh and we had a meeting with management and it was announced that the Snow Queen would be cancelled which was supposed to be our next 2D film and that the director Chris Buck actually would jump over to a new project which would be CG.
I thought "OK, I can see where this is going" and that there wouldn't be any 2D for a long time, I saw that coming. So, I went in and I said you know if we have so much downtime coming up after Pooh, I’d rather not do downtime, I’d rather do something. And I have these ideas in my head for personal films, so why don’t I leave after I finish Pooh and then when and if you have something, I’d be happy to come back. And that’s the way it stands right now.
Anonymous #1 wrote:"Snow Queen" was to be the next 2D when I was there on "PATF" but then it got scrapped because of the whole "No more princess films". "Tangled" was a hit and now "Snow Queen" is back but as a CG film. "Mort" was next in line as 2D but that deal fell through.
Anonymous #2 wrote:Disney should try to make something original and fresh for a change.
Anonymous #3 wrote:You mean like Wreck-It Ralph? And the 4 other films not including KOTE and Snow Queen that are being developed right now at Disney?
1) The untitled Chris Buck project.
2) The untitled Dean Wellins project.
3) The untitled Nathan Greno/Byron Howard project.
The fourth one I'm not sure of, I can't remember reading about any others. Is Chris Williams working on an unkown project or is he directing King of the Elves? And Snow Queen is back in production but as a CG film. Plus a potential hand-drawn project from Ron Clements and John Musker if other rumours are to be believed. Things seem to finally be picking up at Disney.
On page 18 of this thread Sotiris posted a comment from the TAG blog that says Snow Queen is back in production as a CG film. Take it with a grain of salt as Sotiris said, but there do seem to be new rumours that work is recommencing on the film; whether it's CG or hand-drawn I don't know for sure I'm just going by some of the things I've read.
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:On page 18 of this thread Sotiris posted a comment from the TAG blog that says Snow Queen is back in production as a CG film. Take it with a grain of salt as Sotiris said, but there do seem to be new rumours that work is recommencing on the film; whether it's CG or hand-drawn I don't know for sure I'm just going by some of the things I've read.
Anonymous1 wrote:OK, we have: Dean Wellins' Untitled Film, Greno's & Howard's Untitled Film, Chris Buck's Untitled Film. That's three. What's the other one?
Anonymous2 wrote:Like I'm going to spill the beans here...
Anonymous3 wrote:We're not asking much. Just the name of the director(s) working on the project. That's all. No big deal.
Anonymous4 wrote:If you knew who it was, it would make a huge difference. The director IS the news.
Anonymous5 wrote:I'm guessing Miyazaki, if "the director IS the news." Now THAT... would be news.
This is from the TAG blog that Sotiris regularly posts from. Obviously, take this with a grain of salt, but it refers to the secret fourth film that was referred to a couple of posts ago in this thread. So if, hypothetically, this information is correct, it could be safe to assume that the film in question will have a high-profile director. Miyazaki is an interesting choice, it's well known that he's very good friends with John Lasseter, but I personally don't see him directing a film at Disney.
I wonder if the film will get a name change as well. Vague one word titles seems to be the "In" thing right now. Up, Tangled, Brave... maybe this will be called "Frozen" or something.
DancingCrab wrote:I wonder if the film will get a name change as well. Vague one word titles seems to be the "In" thing right now. Up, Tangled, Brave... maybe this will be called "Frozen" or something.
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:Miyazaki is an interesting choice, it's well known that he's very good friends with John Lasseter, but I personally don't see him directing a film at Disney.
There's no way they'd get Miyazaki. That anonymous poster was just making a joke, that's all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is a "news-worthy", high-profile person at WDAS at the moment besides Glen Kean and well...Lasseter.
Maybe it's a live-action filmmaker making the leap to animation. We're getting quite a number of those lately, what with Gore Verbinski, George Miller and Wes Anderson jumping into the animation pool. If Disney would let an outsider direct one of their animated features is un-certain, but if it's a big and highly respected filmmaker, why not?
The other possibility I can see a director being big news is if it's Don Bluth returning to Disney, but I also find that to be incredibly doubtful. And, frankly, at the moment, it's pure speculation on the part of blog posts from people who may or may not even work inside the Mouse House.
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DancingCrab wrote:I wonder if the film will get a name change as well. Vague one word titles seems to be the "In" thing right now. Up, Tangled, Brave... maybe this will be called "Frozen" or something.
I'm voting for "Snowed in"
And they could tie it in with Snow Buddies! Or Snowed in at the House of Mouse! Or both!
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:If there is any truth to this, in my opinion I think it's more likely to be someone from outside the company.
WDAS and Pixar usually don't get someone outside their studios to helm their projects and certainly not someone from the live-action industry who doesn't have previous experience in directing an animated film.
The only exception was, if I recall correctly, Brad Bird for Pixar, but he had already directed an animated film before and he was a classmate of Lasseter at Cal-Arts.
Rich Moore is from outside Disney so perhaps they would be more willing to do that in the future, I don't know. Perhaps it's someone from a rival studio. I agree that I don't think it will be someone from live-action.
estefan wrote:
The other possibility I can see a director being big news is if it's Don Bluth returning to Disney, but I also find that to be incredibly doubtful. And, frankly, at the moment, it's pure speculation on the part of blog posts from people who may or may not even work inside the Mouse House.
Bluth is trying to get his own film financed. I don't see that happening, him coming back to Disney.
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Disney Live On wrote:Why dont we try 2D with 3D glasses and see if that works. The re-release of Lion King may assist in creating this kind of transition. 2D films with the 3D mapping always look amazing and could help raise the thrill factor of 2D for the wider audience. Just a thought
I like it. It'd be pretty interesting to see a brand new hand drawn film in 3d. I havnt seen the lion king of beauty and the beast yet, but everything Ive heard sounds great. the only downside is the line work has some odd distortion going on. Will have to see for myself but I expect its not a big issue.
I dont think Disney will think its a smart move though, in their minds if your going to go 3D you might as well go full 3d.
Lion King has been advertised as returning to cinemas in Australia and New Zealand so Im rather sure they are doing a wide release. Which is awesome! I hope they keep it up and bring Mermaid back to cinemas. Just once so I can see it since I missed it at the movies in 99.
That was me that said the Miyazaki comment. It wasn't meant to be taken as any form of news. It's just something I've thought about before. With Disney's close relationship to Ghibli, Ghibli possibly being in financial trouble if Arriety doesn't do well in the US, and Disney needing a big-deal hand drawn movie... I just thought that would be interesting, and good deal for everybody.
But trust me, unless I'm a REALLY good guesser, there's no truth to that. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up
*gets exicited*
