Pixar has taken some flack of late for delving into several sequels close together, with Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 opening back-to-back and Monsters University set for 2013 – though it should be noted next year's Pixar release, Brave, is completely original.
However, at Disney's D23 Expo today, John Lasseter announced the two Pixar films set to follow Monsters University, and revealed they are both original concepts.
The first project is produced by John Walker and will be the feature directorial debut of Bob Peterson, who wrote Up and Finding Nemo. The duo announced the project will be focused on dinosaurs and humorously revealed a logo for The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs. They promised to have an actual title soon, but in the meantime explained the film follows a "What if?" scenario in which the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed the Earth – and thus dinosaurs never went extinct. While there were no more specifics given, including what era the film takes place in, a piece of production art showed what looked to be a the silhouette of a human boy riding a dinosaurs - hinting at a story about a world where humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Coming from Pixar, I'm guessing this will be a much more thoughtful, emotional take on this type of story than The Flintstones.
The second project will be directed by Pete Doctor (Up, Monster's Inc.) and what he said about the concept was fairly esoteric – noting it would take viewers "inside your mind," revealing why we can't get things out of our head, why we forget certain things and more. This project also doesn't have a title yet – hence the logo we saw for The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind.
The Pixar dinosaur movie is set for Holiday 2013 and the Mind project is coming summer 2014.
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Pixar has taken some flack of late for delving into several sequels close together, with Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 opening back-to-back and Monsters University set for 2013 – though it should be noted next year's Pixar release, Brave, is completely original.
However, at Disney's D23 Expo today, John Lasseter announced the two Pixar films set to follow Monsters University, and revealed they are both original concepts.
The first project is produced by John Walker and will be the feature directorial debut of Bob Peterson, who wrote Up and Finding Nemo. The duo announced the project will be focused on dinosaurs and humorously revealed a logo for The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs. They promised to have an actual title soon, but in the meantime explained the film follows a "What if?" scenario in which the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed the Earth – and thus dinosaurs never went extinct. While there were no more specifics given, including what era the film takes place in, a piece of production art showed what looked to be a the silhouette of a human boy riding a dinosaurs - hinting at a story about a world where humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Coming from Pixar, I'm guessing this will be a much more thoughtful, emotional take on this type of story than The Flintstones.
The second project will be directed by Pete Doctor (Up, Monster's Inc.) and what he said about the concept was fairly esoteric – noting it would take viewers "inside your mind," revealing why we can't get things out of our head, why we forget certain things and more. This project also doesn't have a title yet – hence the logo we saw for The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind.
The Pixar dinosaur movie is set for Holiday 2013 and the Mind project is coming summer 2014.