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

milojthatch wrote:

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

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

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.

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.

Sotiris wrote: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".

DisneyFan09 wrote:Where's your source?

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.

John Lasseter wrote:[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.