Comments on: Henry Selick Is Back: Nearing Finish Line On His Disney/Pixar Feature & Will Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’

By: J.M.

J.M. — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:35:56 +0000

Lasseter would strip away all of Sandersâ esoteric weirdness and personality and release it as the squeaky-clean, wholly uninteresting âBolt.â

I could KISS you for writing this line.

By: StephenM

StephenM — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:35:56 +0000

I love Coraline, but I don't think it would be a bad thing to focus on the story more for Selick. The visual design is always brilliant, and of course we wouldn't want him to give up his interesting quirks, but at the end of the film, Coraline ends up feeling just a little rushed, a little video-gamey in it's plot objectives, and with a little less heart and emotion than I would wish. The best Pixar films always manage to give emotional climaxes their due. So if Selick can Pixar can get that mix just right, I think this will be awesome.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:35:56 +0000

Hey Mark! Thanks for commenting (twice), but youâre wrong about the Pixar connection to âJohn Carter.â In fact, if thereâs one dirty little secret that Disney has been really great about keeping quiet in regards to the whole âJohn Carterâ debacle (out on DVD and Disney Blu-ray June 5th!), itâs how much of a Pixar movie âJohn Carterâ really was. As far as I know, it was pretty much a Pixar movie through and through and that the decision to brand it a âDisneyâ movie instead of a âPixarâ movie came fairly late in the game (before the disastrous first teaser came out, but not much more). The Brain Trust advised on it during development, production, and post-production; the movieâs second unit director, Mark Andrews, is a Pixar stalwart and director of this summerâs âBraveâ (he got the unenviable task of replacing Brenda Chapman); artists from the studio did design work (and of course Giacchino, who is pretty much their in-house composer at this point, lent his musical talents); and even when they flew out some film reporters (unfortunately, they forgot my invite) to the editing suite of âJohn Carter,â those reporters werenât directed to Disney, they were instead navigated to (you guessed it!) Pixar! It was a good call on Lasseterâs part, and the âfirst live action Pixar movieâ is still just around the corner (maybe if Bird ever gets that earthquake movie under control).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:35:56 +0000

Oh, but I'm pretty sure Disney kept the Pixar label off John Carter because other than Stanton & Giaccinno it had little to do with Pixar, and because it was PG-13 which doesn't fit in their image of the brand. That was established a long time before the project went drastically over budget & everyone was paranoid it would flop. They referred to it as loaning him out to Disney.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:35:56 +0000

I'd almost forgotten about Selick working with Pixar & getting them into stop-motion, seriously the most exciting prospect in animation filmmaking. This material is also perfect for him, though I was really interested to see Neil Jordan take such playful material and bring some live action gravitas to it.