Thanks to Nicholas and adamelia for this excellent news. (All the information in this post is from the two people mentioned as I have yet to get a copy of the magazine yet) Apparently this is old news to some but I haven’t heard it before so I’m going to post about it anyway.
Anyway, The June 1, 2007 (Vol. 165 No. 25) edition of TIME Magazine has some information on WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3. It’s all under the article Why Pixar is Better, which I posted a few days ago, but it seems to be magazine specific material.
Firstly, WALL-E or Wall*e as TIME prints it. Andrew Stanton calls it “R2-D2 meets City Lights”. Also TIME says “Those who remember the 1931 Charlie Chaplin film, about a blind girl wooed by a tramp she mistakenly believes is a rich man, can
transpose the story to a lonely planet and guess from there.” Apparently the main roles will be voiced by Ben Burtt (Sound Designer behind Star Wars/Indiana Jones who recently moved to Pixar as reported here)
Now to Up.
“Pete Docter and co-director Bob Peterson are preparing this “coming-of-old-age story” about a seventysomething guy who lives in a house that “looks like your grand-parents’ house smelled.” He befriends a clueless young Wilderness Ranger and gets into lots of alter kocker altercations. Says Pixar: “Our hero travels the globe, fights beasts and villains and eats dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon.”
That’s the blurb TIME provided. adamelia adds “They say it is about an old man in his seventies who meets a clueless, young jungle scout. These two have some adventures globally in exotic lands…something similar to that.”
And now to Toy Story 3.
The Toy Story 3 blurb offers nothing much. It quotes Lee Unkrich saying, as to why another Toy Story….“We got an idea we thought would be really great.” Lee Unkrich will be THE director….he co-directed Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo. He says, “We’re just starting to write the story”….and confides, “I wake up evey morning hoping for a eureka moment.”
says Nicholas.
Also each piece is accompianed by a picture. Here are the descriptions courtesy of Nicholas.
The Wall*e film has the robot looking up to the dark space sky, Up has a panoramic shot of what looks like some sort of canyons and trees…on the left side you see very small silhouettes of 2 hikers or just 2 people enjoying the view (one character is older…the other is much younger), and Toy Story 3 is just Woody and Buzz side-by-side (nothing new).
I’m going to try and get my hands on a copy of the U.S. June 18 edition of TIME very soon and I suggest you do the same. Thanks again to Nicholas and adamelia for this great news.
Last modified: June 10, 2007
Awesome news on Up Luxo Jr. Thank you 😉
Ben Burtt is the perfect guy to voices for WALL- E, because he did r2-d2 and all that. 🙂
Kenny Baker actually played Artoo, but Ben Burtt was the one responsible for mixing those whistle sounds (effectively making him the voice of R2-D2); in short, you’re technically right, JV 😉
And yes, this is certainly interesting news. Thanks for posting it Luxo, Jr.
What’s the official name of that other Pixar film coming out after Toy Story 3? Was it John Carter from Mars or John Carter of Mars?
FlagFreak – John Carter of Mars.