So, the teaser trailer Disney's upcoming CGI animated comedy "The Wild" will premiere, soon.
It's the story of a bunch of zoo animals, including a naive lion...who end up in the wild!
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Man, strangest feeling of deja vu...
Anyway, Disney has no reference the film on their website, or the the 2006 preview list they released to the media.
In fact, if it weren't for the film being referenced on the recent "Emperor's New Groove" special edition DVD, I would believe it didn't exist.
Yet it does.
I guess it's good that Disney still wants to do animated films.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Hmm...interesting...
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
*eyes Disney suspiciously*
Care to explain?
Posted by Rabid Newz (Member # 7704) on :
Well, something like this happened with "Antz" and "A Bug's Life." Disney fired someone who knew key plot stuff, and Dreamworks hired him. Antz was made and released before a "A Bug's Life," and I, personally, like Antz better.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Oh, is that how it happened? I always kind of wondered.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I think that is what went down, yes.
Posted by james01 (Member # 8863) on :
A Bug's Life was better.
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
I think that story makes Antz seem like that guy's personal story with Disney. Going against the hive mentality type thing.
This doesn't really add any new info about The Wild except that the release date is April 14th, but at least is shows that it exists.
Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :
I saw some "stills" from The Wild a few months ago that made Hoodwinked look like Fantasia. But yes, from what I heard, The Wild was in development long before Dreamworks started on Madagascar, so it's possible that this went the other way, or that hey, maybe it's just a coincidence after all.
And since I just found out my new mentor for this semester worked on Bug's Life, I know where my loyalties lie. Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Armageddon/Deep Impact Deep Star Six/Abyss/Leviathan Rob Roy/Braveheart Volcano/Dante's Peak Mission To Mars/Red Planet
Should I go on? You know, all the same studios see all the same scripts.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
There were also two Columbus movies back in '92, right?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Okay, I can't help myself.
Entrapment/The Thomas Crown Affair Tombstone/Wyatt Earp Platoon/Full Metal Jacket Christopher Columbus/1492 Without Limits/Prefontaine The Truman Show/EdTV Dr. Strangelove/Failsafe
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Um, yeah. Sorry. I was working on more while you posted and I didn't see your post.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
They're making a Bambi 2 now.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
That's just wrong.
Ni!
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Oooo... Eddie Izzard is a voice in "The Wild." That's amazing.
(For those of you that don't know, Eddie Izzard is my hero.)
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Ni, I agree.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
As long as it's direct to video, I don't mind. I don't recognize those as real, so they don't count.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Why do they pursist in making these direct to video movies in the first place? Dang is that annoying. That company is going downhill.
Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
Because, believe it or not, there is actually relatively more money now in direct-to-video sales than movie theaters. It costs less to manufacture and distribute on movies that can be bought once and watched over than pay current theater prices on a one time viewing.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
DTV movies are pretty close to pure profit. They suck, but kids eat them up. It's not what made Disney great, but it pays the bills for some other things that I like better.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
I must say, it looks so terrible...that it might actually be kind of fun. Kind of. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I saw the preview for The Wild before Fun With Dick and Jane. It looks horrible, not to mention like a cheap ripoff of the bulk of the idea for Madagascar.
As for Bambi II, it looks funny. Captain Picard is the voice of the Prince of the Forest.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Wow, it's like Madagascar with no style, bad jokes, and cheap emotional crap.
That's amazing.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
And it has a squirrel making vaguely raunchy jokes!
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rabid Newz: Well, something like this happened with "Antz" and "A Bug's Life." Disney fired someone who knew key plot stuff, and Dreamworks hired him. Antz was made and released before a "A Bug's Life," and I, personally, like Antz better.
1. Disney fired someone who "knew key plot stuff". 2. Antz was released before A Bug's Life.
Both those may be true but I think it's highly unlikely they had anything to do with one another. First of all, there is almost no comparison between the plots of the two movies, or their styles (other than both being CGI). They are both about insects. I think if there was a corporate espionage plot by Dreamworks all they needed to do was lean out their window and listen to the general buzz that is a constant in Hollywood.
Personally I liked A Bug's Life much more than Antz. One reason is that I dislike the style of Antz and similar movies like Shark Tale (which was released "suspiciously" close to Finding Nemo). In both of those movies, the fact that the characters were bugs/fish was incidental. They were even drawn to look quite a bit like the actors who did the voices. The plots practically could have been lifted whole and set in NYC with human actors. The humor was mainly from dressing humans with human motives in bug suits and fish suits.
A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo on the other hand started with original characters and personalities brought to life by their voice actors, but not overwhelmed by them (or worse, based on them). The plots evolved more from the (albeit rudimentary) conception of the nature of the bugs/fishes, but anthropomorphized. The humor largely came naturally from the plot and characters and much less so from human conceits crammed into the bug's (or fish's) world.
In Antz it was "Woody Allen is a bug" (ha ha). In A Bug's Life it was more "These bugs are a lot like us" (ha ha). I find the latter more satifying in terms of humor and plot than the former. YMMV.
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But yes, from what I heard, The Wild was in development long before Dreamworks started on Madagascar, so it's possible that this went the other way, or that hey, maybe it's just a coincidence after all. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)