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And So It Begins

Pixar to Make Day of the Dead Themed Film, Tim Burton Surprisingly Not Involved

by Susana Polo | 11:11 am, April 25th, 2012


Last summer at Disney’s D23 expo, Pixar laid out its future movie line up, including a number of movies so deep in the preproduction process they didn’t even have names. The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind didn’t even have a code name. Last night, however, the animation studio gave a bit of an update on what it’s got in store. Emphasis on a bit.

That Mind movie is aiming for a 2015 release, courtesy of Pete Docter, director of Up and Monsters, Inc. Their untitled movie about a world where dinosaurs never went extinct and now coexist peaceably alongside human beings (which I am still pretending is Dinotopia: The Pixar Movie until further notice) is now titled: The Good Dinosaur and is due in May of 2014. What’s new in the line up, however, is that director of Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson would be heading up a new production about the Mexican holiday la Dia de los Muertos.

Unfortunately, with the immense lead time on animated films, that’s pretty much all we know at this point. The only thing I feel confident in saying for sure is that the combination of Pixar’s devotion to visuals with the artistic aesthetic and color palette of Day of the Dead celebrations will be breathtaking. And that I’m crossing my fingers for a Calavera Catrina as a major character.

Of course there’s no guarantee that the movie will make it to screen. Pixar is considered relatively brave where studios are concerned, in that it’s not afraid to scrap a movie completely even after it’s gone through several concept art stages if it thinks the film is simply not working. Consider Newt, the film that would have released this summer instead of Brave (then known as The Bear and the Bow).

(via The Wrap.)

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  • http://www.imadeshopping.com/ qieerxi

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  • http://twitter.com/ethne88 Marcela Vargas

    This movie would absolutely rock my socks. As a Mexican, I would love to see how the geniuses at Pixar took this part of our culture and translate it on to the screen. 

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    I love all that Day of the Dead style.  I think it would make a very interesting film.

  • Anonymous

    I honestly thought you mean the Romero film for a second.

  • Anonymous

    I can has movie?!? Please Pixar!! :gives saddest eyes EVA!!:

  • http://www.tulgeywooddesigns.com Amphigorey

    !

    !!

    !!!!!

    DO WANT.

  • http://twitter.com/WhatKateDoes Kate Lorimer

    This is twitching my Grim Fandango vibe!!  :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Fandango 

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    Me too =D

  • http://twitter.com/GeekLock Dingo

    Yay! one of the things from my country I am not embarrassed by might get a movie!

  • http://katipeachiekeen.blogspot.com/ Kati

    Did anyone else watch the video series “La Catrina” in high school Spanish class? The calavaras catrinas have a special place in my heart just for that ;)

    Also, the movie sounds fantastic, can’t wait to see how it develops!!

  • http://twitter.com/archasa Åsa M Larsson

    This sounds a LOT more interesting than the Dinosaur movie, which quite frankly sounds boring to me. It’s Pixar, so I’m sure it will be better than the Dinotopia + Mario Bros Movie that flashed into my head when I heard of it, but I’m having problems getting rid of that reaction…

    Now I have to dig out my old Grim Fandango game…

  • http://www.facebook.com/joshuaarcher Joshua Archer

     Run, you pigeons, it’s Robert Frost!

  • http://www.facebook.com/brandie.bayless.9 Brandie Bayless

    Omg! Yes!!!!!

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