Disney talks Angelina Jolie, 'Good Dinosaur': http://t.co/y66CPKBoR0
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Disney talks 'Good Dinosaur,' Angelina Jolie
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co., elaborated on movie projects in an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network.
Iger discussed why "The Good Dinosaur," an animated film from Pixar, has been delayed.
"If you feel that you have got some issues in terms of making the kind of film that people expect when the Pixar name is on it, then you wait and make sure you get it right," Iger said. "When we delay it, if we come out with a great film six months later, no one is going to remember that it was delayed. If you come out with a bad film early, everybody is going to remember that it was a bad film."
The top Pixar executives told Iger that had concerns about "The Good Dinosaur" being ready on time, he said. It originally was to be released in 2014, but has been pushed to 2015. Pixar will have no release in 2014.
Iger was full of praise for Angelia Jolie, who takes the title role in "Maleficent."
"It's the villain in 'Sleeping Beauty,' and Angelina Jolie is perfect in that role," Iger said. The movie will be released in 2014.
"We are a content creator, under ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, Disney and Lucas -- or 'Star Wars.'
" Iger said. "In a world where technology is creating or enabling new
platforms and customers to reach or access this content in so many new
ways, there are all kinds of exciting new possibilities, including
creating programming directly to these new platforms. So I wouldn't be
surprised if sometime in the near future, you didn't hear about Disney
making content specifically for one of the platforms that you cite, and
not necessarily making it for one of our channels. Now we will continue
to feed these great channels. But these new platforms are voracious in
terms of their appetite for good content. And we can make it."
The Australian
- The Australian
- September 25, 2013
production Unbroken. It appears the first-time director has impressed
anyone in the business who has crossed her path as she scouts locations
for her World War II drama. The film, about US Olympic athlete Louis
Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese, is casting, and Queensland
and NSW appear to be splitting the shoot, which is due to begin late
next month. While the film has yet to be greenlit, there is little
likelihood the new federal government will kybosh the special $20
million fund created by the Gillard government to attract offshore
productions here. It's not as though Tony Abbott would want to turn away
an up-and-coming female director, would he? Besides, the special fund
was set up on a first come, first served basis and while another
offshore production is circling, Jolie's film should be the major
beneficiary. Which leads us to the off-again, never-really-on-again
Disney production 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Apparently the
multi-million-dollar federal government inducement to attract the $200m
David Fincher production is still on the books as committed funds. The
film remains a possibility to shoot here next year.
See more at The Australian
Laura Hillenbrand shared a link.
Yesterday, I wrote about my pal, the SciFi and Horror Hall of Fame filmmaker Mick Garris (The Stand, The Shining, and much more), and his connection to the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. The subject of the book, Louis Zamperini, is Mick's father-in-law.
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It came as a public surprise therefore when Angelina Jolie was hired, but what Mick said is that it was stunning how much she adored the book and was otherworldly passionate about it. She just bowled everyone away with her detailed knowledge of the book and the research she'd done on the subject already, on her own. She just really, really, really wanted to direct the movie, and know how she wanted to direct, and won everyone over. She had directed before, not much and not with huge financial success, but her skill showed. And it was at her prompting that the Coen Brothers got involved.
As I mentioned, I know that the two families had met, and got along famously. And Louis and Angie (and Mick puts it) just bonded wonderfully.
Mick...said his schedule was a little in limbo because they were heading down soon to Australia to the set of Unbroken.
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The man cast to play Louis (pronounced "Lou-ee", but the way, not "Lou-iss") is a young, British actor Jack O'Connell, who just won the lottery. The fact that Universal Pictures approved casting a total unknown to U.S. audiences for such a huge-profile film speaks volumes of how high they are on it. They understand that it's the book and story that's the star. "
Mick did say that it's weird being a part of it, even if it's from afar. But though he says he never expected to have even the slightest involvement... he says that Angie has kept him and the family involved in the process throughout. I am not speaking out of school when I quote one of Mick's comments in an email: "To meet her is to love her."
From what he's told me, Angelina Jolie is directing this movie specifically because she’s so deeply impassioned by the story, just utterly adores the book, and adores Louis.
Lots of really good people involved in this. And we'll also include the original author, Laura Hillenbrand, who's a wonderful story all on her own. With a debilitating disease, she gets exhausted easily and is unable to leave home. All her minutely-detailed research is done from home. So Louis (with whom she developed the closest relationship and dear friendship) -- at the age then of 93 -- was the one who traveled all over and did the book tour!
In fact, here he is last year on CBS Sunday Morning. If you don't know Louis' story, this does a nice job recapping it.
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