So, I'm back from Comic-Con (sorry, took me a while to recover) and I barely saw anything because I was spending most of my time hanging with my friends. But one of the few panels I made it to was the Disney panel, where they presented on Prince Caspian (which is currently filming, and won't be out unti May 2008). Yes, they're planning on doing all seven (yikes!). They didn't have any footage, so they showed us pre-visualization stuff instead. Looked kind of like a video game, of everybody invading King Miraz's castle. It looks pretty cool.
And the second half of the presentation was on the next Pixar (which also won't be out until 2008, obvious) movie, Wall-E. It was freaking amazing. I'd tell you more about the movie, but I don't want to spoil it. Andrew Stanton, the director, said that the seed of the story (which he mostly wrote while he was procrastinating on Finding Nemo) was the idea of what if everybody abandoned the Earth, but there was one robot that was left running.
He began to realize that he was thinking of making "R2D2: The Movie", and that's when it occurred to him that Ben Burtt lives very nearby Pixar (i.e., Skywalker Ranch is pretty darn close).
Ben Burtt, if you don't know who he is, is the guy who heard the hum of a projector motor, and the crackle of the vacuum tubes in the back of his television, recorded both sounds, mixed them together with about a dozen others, and created the sound effect for a lightsaber. He was the sound designer for the original Star Wars. Believe me, you know his work.
And he was on stage. With his keyboard, which was plugged into Hall H's sound system. And it was cranked up, ("Just what a sound guy likes to hear." he said.) And for a crowd of 6,000 fans, he began to play the sounds that he used to make up the character of Wall-E. And then showed us test animation with the sounds put together. And then did it for three more characters. And then Andrew Stanton showed us a huge clip (like, four or five minutes) from the movie.
It was really amazing. So, I'm definitely looking forward to Wall-E.
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In more mundane movie-going, I finally got around to seeing the Transformers movie. It was really really fun, and exactly the sort of huge-mecha-and-explosions silliness I needed. I also loved the fact that they used the original cartoon voices, and that it was taking the cartoon as seriously as if they were making Blackhawk Down or something. Serious love letter to the military, which is something I can get behind, living in a navy town as I do.
Then, I followed that up with No Reservations, which was about as good as I thought it would be--fun, but not quite as good as the German original (Bella Marthe or Mostly Martha). They really simplified the character of the restaurant owner, and they dumped the entire subplot of looking for Zoe/Lina's Italian father, which was annoying.
Next week: Stardust!
And the second half of the presentation was on the next Pixar (which also won't be out until 2008, obvious) movie, Wall-E. It was freaking amazing. I'd tell you more about the movie, but I don't want to spoil it. Andrew Stanton, the director, said that the seed of the story (which he mostly wrote while he was procrastinating on Finding Nemo) was the idea of what if everybody abandoned the Earth, but there was one robot that was left running.
He began to realize that he was thinking of making "R2D2: The Movie", and that's when it occurred to him that Ben Burtt lives very nearby Pixar (i.e., Skywalker Ranch is pretty darn close).
Ben Burtt, if you don't know who he is, is the guy who heard the hum of a projector motor, and the crackle of the vacuum tubes in the back of his television, recorded both sounds, mixed them together with about a dozen others, and created the sound effect for a lightsaber. He was the sound designer for the original Star Wars. Believe me, you know his work.
And he was on stage. With his keyboard, which was plugged into Hall H's sound system. And it was cranked up, ("Just what a sound guy likes to hear." he said.) And for a crowd of 6,000 fans, he began to play the sounds that he used to make up the character of Wall-E. And then showed us test animation with the sounds put together. And then did it for three more characters. And then Andrew Stanton showed us a huge clip (like, four or five minutes) from the movie.
It was really amazing. So, I'm definitely looking forward to Wall-E.
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In more mundane movie-going, I finally got around to seeing the Transformers movie. It was really really fun, and exactly the sort of huge-mecha-and-explosions silliness I needed. I also loved the fact that they used the original cartoon voices, and that it was taking the cartoon as seriously as if they were making Blackhawk Down or something. Serious love letter to the military, which is something I can get behind, living in a navy town as I do.
Then, I followed that up with No Reservations, which was about as good as I thought it would be--fun, but not quite as good as the German original (Bella Marthe or Mostly Martha). They really simplified the character of the restaurant owner, and they dumped the entire subplot of looking for Zoe/Lina's Italian father, which was annoying.
Next week: Stardust!
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