Pixar celebrated its 25th anniversary at D23 yesterday by previewing its next four picture . There ’s Brave , which take place in ancient Scotland and features Pixar ’s first distaff Hero of Alexandria , followed by Monsters , Inc. prequel Monsters University , plus two newly announced projects !
Disney animation chief and longtime Pixar head John Lasseter took the point yesterday to the forthcoming slating of Pixar movies . Perhaps implicitly responding to the heavy critique of Cars 2 – generally consider the studio ’s first straight-out flop – Lasseter and the various originative team were quick to accent that Brave and the two previously unannounced projects are all “ altogether original ” films , and that Monsters University is being made because they found a tale worth tell that was as salutary or undecomposed than that of Monsters , Inc. And , to be fair , there ’s some precedent for this – whatever cynical , commercial calculation might underpin the existence of the two Toy Story continuation , they both fend up as superlative films in their own right .
Still , for the first time in its 15 yr of make motion picture , Pixar is arguably not playing from a position of strength . The inquiry then is whether all the new footage could show Cars 2 was the inauspicious distortion , rather than the new dominion . And , generally speaking , what I see appear like the Pixar of Wall - E and Toy Story 3 rather than that of Cars 2 .
permit ’s start with Brave . Lasseter reeled off all the firsts that Brave represents for them – it ’s their first menstruation film , the first with a a distaff main character , and it ’s the first to venture into mystical , queer tale territory . Set in the upland of ancient Scotland , the movie follows Merida ( Boardwalk Empire ’s Kelly MacDonald ) , a skilled archer and daughter of King Fergus ( Billy Connolly ) and Queen Elinor ( Emma Thompson ) .
Fergus is maybe a bit past his prime these twenty-four hours , but he still commands respect as the most fearsome warrior in Scots account , and he has the missing leg – which he lost in a fabled fight with a demon bear – to essay it . For all his apparent toughness , he ’s a complete sweetheart when it come to his girl . Not so for Queen Elinor , who has no longanimity for Merida ’s headstrong ways and demand she prepare for a marriage with one of the sons of the three most powerful noble : Lords Macintosh ( Craig Ferguson ) , Dingwall ( Robbie Coltrane ) , and MacGuffin ( Rome ’s Kevin McKidd ) .
Boththe previously released trailerand the footage shown at D23 offer some fairly strong breath that there are fabulous beasts lurking on the border of the pic – Fergus ’s monster bear seems like a safe enough bet for an visual aspect in the flick – but we still do n’t quite sleep with what we ’re in depot for .
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Director Mark Andrews did explicate one primal aspect of Brave ’s mythology : the will - o’-the - wisp . These are strange low twinkle with the mightiness to change a individual ’s fate and conduct to treasure … or to doom . Merida follows the wisp to the cottage of a deep beldam ( Harry Potter ’s Julie Walters ) . Merida enquire the hag to cast a spell that will get her out of her approaching staged marriage , but the tour goes horribly wrong , and the timber becomes a dangerous place . It ’s then up to Merida to go on a quest and save the day , which Andrews remark also becomes a way to heal the relationship with her home .
We got to see a clustering of footage , admit a big taproom fight , a nervous moment in the forest that recalled the teaser trailer , and an archery competition in which the three dullard noble Son vie for the right hand to court Merida . The sequences all seemed to find a nice mixture between the thaumaturgy of the medieval setting and appropriately off-color , raucous temper . I was in reality reminded quite a second of How to take aim Your Dragon , the one DreamWorks movie that can actually go toe to toe with Pixar – the comportment of Craig Ferguson in both films only beef up the connexion – and the enquiry of whether Brave can decently set itself apart is credibly my one major concern . Otherwise , this very much look like a return to form for Pixar .
Next up is Monsters University , which features the return of Billy Crystal and John Goodman as their Monsters , Inc. case Mike Wazowski and James “ Sulley ” Sullivan . Lasseter excuse that the original film was driven so much by the friendship between the two characters , and so they want to head back and examine just how that friendly relationship came about . To do that , Lasseter exalt that they got to make the first liven up college movie .
Monsters University director Dan Scanlon excuse the canonic premiss . Mike and Sulley have know each other since grade school , but they ’ve always been acerb rivals because they both want to be scarers , which is reasonably much the freak equivalent of wanting to be an astronaut . They both attend the same college , and much to their common dismay become freshman roommates .
Scanlon explained that the animators went on several research trips to colleges like Harvard and Princeton to get the right look for the Monsters University campus – a necessity , he explained , because they were a bunch of artwork schooling grads who had no approximation what literal college looked like . Another key to the movie ’s look is the young , younger designs for Mike and Sulley – Mike has picked up a solidifying of brace that are either meant to make teeth straight or more crooked ( Scanlon was n’t sure how braces would work for freak ) and Sulley is shaggier and thinner than he was in Monsters , Inc.
We sustain to see some concept artistry for the various denizens of the university , which includes your received assortment of nerveless monsters , nerd , tike , as well as professors of every eccentric , from stodgy English light professors to artsy theatre of operations type to sports - ghost coach . If watching the “ Homer move to College ” instalment of The Simpsons has taught me anything – and I ’d like to think it ’s taught me everything , then there advantageously be a crusty doyen somewhere around here .
According to Scanlon , part of the point of taking the character back to college is to try them at one of the most all important pointedness in their biography , since this is an age when many hoi polloi question who they are and often come up with unexpected answer . A big focus for Mike and Sulley will be pull ahead entry to the Scaring School , which is the most elite program at the university .
John Goodman and Billy Crystal are n’t the only render voices from Monsters , Inc. – Steve Buscemi is also back as their nemesis Randall , and the brief footage we see seemed to rally a few other return appearances as well . fall in the vocalism cast are Dave Foley , Julia Sweeney , Joel Murray ( Mad Men ’s Fred Rumsen ) , and Pixar vitalizer Peter Sohn , who do as the visual model for young Russell in Up and render the part of Emile in Ratatouille .
Finally , Pixar revealed the two task it ’s working on after Brave and Monsters University , which takes their docket all the fashion to May 2014 . The first , direct by Peter Sohn and Up co - director Bob Peterson , was infix as The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs . The picture show imagine what would have materialize if the asteroid that killed the dinosaur 65 million years ago had really missed Earth , and the one still of construct art appeared to reveal a human child riding an Apatosaurus in the savanna .
The 2nd film is being headed up by Up ’s other carbon monoxide - director Pete Docter and longtime Pixar story supervisor Ronnie del Carmen . Docter introduce it as The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind , which will essay what really blend in on inside people ’s brains . They did n’t offer too many concrete details , but it sounds like they ’ll be anthropomorphizing thought unconscious process – my prompt distributor point of comparison would be the last section of Woody Allen ’s Everything You Always need to get laid About Sex * ( * But Were Afraid to Ask ) , though presumably featuring less coitus , random digs at NYU , and Burt Reynolds .
Here ’s a complete solidification of official descriptions for the various coming Pixar projects , admit one thing not cite at the D23 display : Small Fry , another short readiness in the Toy Story universe of discourse .
Brave
Since ancient sentence , narration of epic battle and mysterious legends have been pass through the generation across the rugged and mysterious highland of Scotland . In “ Brave , ” a novel tale join the lore when the brave Merida ( interpreter of Kelly Macdonald ) confronts tradition , fortune and the fiercest of beasts .
Merida is a skilled archer and impulsive daughter of King Fergus ( vocalization of Billy Connolly ) and Queen Elinor ( articulation of Emma Thompson ) . Determined to chip at her own path in animation , Merida defies an age - old custom sacred to the rip-roaring lords of the land : massive Lord MacGuffin ( voice of Kevin McKidd ) , surly Lord Macintosh ( voice of Craig Ferguson ) and bloody-minded Lord Dingwall ( vox of Robbie Coltrane ) . Merida ’s natural process inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the land , and when she turn to an nonconcentric old Witch ( voice of Julie Walters ) for aid , she is granted an ill - fated wish . The ensuing peril forces Merida to discover the meaning of true braveness in decree to undo a beastly curse before it ’s too belatedly .
Monsters University
Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair , but that was n’t always the case . From the here and now these two mismatched monsters adjoin they could n’t stand each other . “ behemoth University ” unlock the door to how Mike and Sulley get over their difference and became the best of booster .
The Untitled Pixar Film About Dinosaurs
What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaur never became extinct ? This hilarious , heartfelt and original story is directed by Bob Peterson ( co - director / author , “ Up ; ” writer , “ Finding Nemo ” ) and produce by John Walker ( “ The Incredibles , ” “ The Iron Giant ” ) .
The Untitled Pixar Movie That strike You Inside the nous
Pixar take hearing on incredible journeys into over-the-top cosmos : from the dreary depths of the sea to the top of the tepui mountains in South America ; from the fictitious city of Monstropolis to a futurist fantasy of outer space . From director Pete Docter ( “ Up , ” “ Monsters , Inc. ” ) and producer Jonas Rivera ( “ Up ” ) , the imaginative unexampled motion picture will take you to a place that everyone know , but no one has ever ascertain : the world inside the human nous .
“ Small Fry ” ( Working Title )
In the latest Toy Story Toon , Buzz Lightyear is leave behind at a firm food for thought restaurant when a kids ’ meal toy version of Buzz occupy his position . While Bonnie ’s toys are stuck with the plaguey 3 - column inch - tall Buzz imitator , the veridical Buzz is immobilise in the restaurant at a support group for chuck out miniature . As Woody and the gang devise a way to rescue their Quaker , Buzz hear to escape the toy psychotherapy meeting .
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