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First Tidbits on Disney's Three Pigs
Disney's CGI movie The Three Pigs might star Michael Keaton as the Big Bad Wolf and his Beetlejuice co-star Geena Davis as the Big Bad Wolf's wife. The Mouse House is also reportedly in talks with child actors Scott Terra, Angus T. Jones and Tyler Hoechlin to voice the three pigs; as well as Alex D. Linz and Josh Peck to voice two of their three hog cousins.

first timne ive heard bout this what do yall think might not be too bad i think

i show the cartoon today on toon disney it was cute but not bad

ummm...am I the only one that is not blown away by this?
Pardon the pun

indianajdp wrote:ummm...am I the only one that is not blown away by this?
Pardon the pun

Considering it's another CGI movie which seems to have almost slipped out with no prior notice (I swear, new Disney CGI movies are being revealed every week - see the also unknown until now Let's Get Francis news posted on Animated Movies a few days ago) I just cannot bring myself to have any enthusiam.

Given the high number of films supposedly in the works at Disney, I cannot see them all being released, so I'm treating all news with suspicion. I refuse to belive Disney has all this films in developement - all CGI:

The Three Pigs
Let's Get Francis
The Incredibles (with Pixar of course)
Cars (with Pixar of course)
Valient
Gnomeo and Juliet
Chicken Little
Fraidy Cat
Rapunzel

Which will also be battling it out with

My Peoples (or Angel & Her No-Good Sister or whatever it's called this week)
Fantasia 2006

Which are 2D/3D Hybrids

plus the traditionally animated

Home on the Range
The Heffalump Moivie (possible theatrical release)

Plus these live action / CGI films (reportedly with the emphasis on animation)

The Snow Queen
Enchanted

And that's just Disney. Now everyone from Lucasfilm to Universal are jumping on the CGI animated film bandwagon. Add other studios to the list and the number of films in competition doubles or trebles - including hard hitters like

Shrek 2
Shrek 3
Ice Age 2
Robots
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Non-CGI - Thank God)
Curious George
The ChubbChubbs Movie (working title)

plus other new Pixar movies - either released through Disney or not.

Then there's Disney's ongoing DTV features, including

Mulan II
Mulan III
Tarzan II
The Three Musketeers
Lilo and Stitch II

and I'm sure over the next few years they're be many more DTV features announced.

Talk about a glut. Does it make sense to have so much compeition from your own studio? Especially when other studios have ramped up all their animated productions too?

They don't appear to have learnt anything from their underperfoming, ramped up 2D movies over the past few years. Namely A Disney Movie should be percieved as a Special Event - not something that happens every other month.

Actually, besides Brother Bear, the DTV releases is pretty much all Disney has me excited about.
But watch, soon they'll be doing a CGI sequel to something like Snow White. Or, since a sequel to an underrated classic like Fox and the Hound probably wouldn't sell all that well, that will be the one done in 3-D.

2099net wrote: Talk about a glut. Does it make sense to have so much compeition from your own studio? Especially when other studios have ramped up all their animated productions too?

They don't appear to have learnt anything from their underperfoming, ramped up 2D movies over the past few years. Namely A Disney Movie should be percieved as a Special Event - not something that happens every other month.

I'm really torn on this issue.

While I don't mind CGI per se, there is an awful lot of it at the moment. Only tonight my girlfriend was asking me "which one of those is Disney/Pixar? 'Ice Age' isn't Disney is it...?". I think for the casual viewer, the glut of CGI not just from Disney, but from all the studios, leads people to lump them all into one category and generalize.

That is what has happened with comics for example. Due to the proliferation of superhero comics, with seemingly new things being created every week, people tend to lump them all into the 'kids stuff category' and ignore the true literary gems that emerge from the comic world.

The POINT to this wacky tangent is that many is not always good. While there is such a thing as healthy competition, 2099 is right - a glut is not good particularly when it comes from within. The 'true gems' will be overlooked by the public as yet another 'Disney flick' comes out. I know I was taking that attidute briefly during the 2D glut years.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there when you say a Disney movie should be seen as a Special Event, 2099. That was what made the Disney movies so loved in the first place - everyone knew how much effort had gone into them, and people looked forward to the next one.

I understand Disney's point of view - it takes a lot of time and money to animate a film that may not be a success (such was the post Treasure Planet argument). But surely there has to be a middle ground between one movie every three years, and a glut of CGI?

It's not so much that the bulk of Disney's projects are CGI. I don't exclusively dislike CGI, but I do think Disney are putting a lot of eggs into one basket, should the CGI boom suddenly burst. But that's not really the issue.

It's just that Disney will basically be competing with themselves should all of these movies be due to come out in a, say, 5- 7 year period. Plus the DVD releases of their earlier movies will be competing with their DTVs and even their upcoming theatrical releases.

Add to that the fact that most of the public associates any animated film with Disney (most of the public still think - for example - Shrek is a Disney movie) and Disney are also competing with all the other studios on an uneven playing field. Disney's brand name will be rubbing off on the other animated films too, simply through public ignorence.

"I'll skip Disney's Three Little Pigs, I don't really fancy the look of it, but I'll see their upcoming Wallace and Gromit when that comes out."

I don't know. You could take the point of view that now is a golden time for animation, with more choice then ever before. I just hope having lots of animated films to choose from encourages more people to watch them, or else they're all fighting for the same audience.

You guys wait til 2005, 2006. There will be so many CGI animated movies that some will have to fail! Disney will soon regret going over to all these cheap CGI movies.

I predict that eventually those CGI movies will no longer be something so visually spectacular (since there will be so many) and they will become like DTV sequels-something we (almost) all dread.

Another thing is is that Disney already did a version of the Three Little Pigs a long time ago, plus some sequels! I don't see any reason to do it again.

I'm looking forward to Rapunzel, Chicken Little and possibly Fraidy Cat.

Rapunzel would look better if it was done in 2D and not in CGI! I can't picture a fairy tale/princess story in CGI! doesn't look good!

MickeyMouseboy wrote:Rapunzel would look better if it was done in 2D and not in CGI! I can't picture a fairy tale/princess story in CGI! doesn't look good!

ya me 2 i agre every time i think of disneys rapunzel i always think of the barbire one i think people might get confused maybe

[quote="Maerj"]Another thing is is that Disney already did a version of the Three Little Pigs a long time ago, plus some sequels! I don't see any reason to do it again.[/quote]

Same with Chicken Little, although this new version will be much different (I'm assuming).

MickeyMouseboy wrote:Rapunzel would look better if it was done in 2D and not in CGI! I can't picture a fairy tale/princess story in CGI! doesn't look good!

Thats completely the way I see it.

Switching to CGI is sad. Although I do like Pixar films, I don't like the CGI look at all.

Man, things were always a lot better before. Also, I don't think some movies failed because they weren't in CGI. Pretty sure there's other factors involved, although I'n too tired to think muchm, so...

I refuse to be pessimistic on this issue! If we're going to get computer-animated movies, shed some tears and then just get excited that we will get more Disney movies. But Eisner!!!