As Disney's Finding Nemo is just a week away now, Newsweek interviewed Disney CEO Michael Eisner who mentioned development details on several of their animated projects. First, he talked about the Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench-voiced Gnomeo & Juliet...
Eisner can't help himself from getting involved in the details when he’s passionate—about making a movie or, better yet, making a deal. "I've been nervous about these gnomes since day one," Eisner warned his animators during a recent meeting. Eisner fears the protagonists of "Gnomeo & Juliet," a tale of forbidden love among lawn ornaments, may look klutzy and tacky. His new animation chief, David Stainton—whom Eisner plucked from the TV-animation division with an eye toward holding down feature costs—assures him the gnomes will be nimble and their gardens only "a bit garish," with a supporting cast of plaster frogs, a Greek torso and a pink flamingo. Eisner likes the flamingo. "Remember the flamingos in 'Fantasia 2000'?" he muses. "That came from 10 years of my wife and a major shareholder sending uglier and uglier flamingos to each other as a joke."
Meanwhile, it appears that My Peoples has been renamed Elgin's People. The article refers to the film as featuring "a computer-generated rag doll voiced by Dolly Parton, animated in three dimensions (how else?)."
Newsweek also confirmed that "Eisner wants to extend the lives of Disney's older characters by reanimating some classics for a new look. Imagine a 3-D Peter Pan soaring over a digitized London."
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Eisner can't help himself from getting involved in the details when he’s passionate—about making a movie or, better yet, making a deal. "I've been nervous about these gnomes since day one," Eisner warned his animators during a recent meeting. Eisner fears the protagonists of "Gnomeo & Juliet," a tale of forbidden love among lawn ornaments, may look klutzy and tacky. His new animation chief, David Stainton—whom Eisner plucked from the TV-animation division with an eye toward holding down feature costs—assures him the gnomes will be nimble and their gardens only "a bit garish," with a supporting cast of plaster frogs, a Greek torso and a pink flamingo. Eisner likes the flamingo. "Remember the flamingos in 'Fantasia 2000'?" he muses. "That came from 10 years of my wife and a major shareholder sending uglier and uglier flamingos to each other as a joke."
Meanwhile, it appears that My Peoples has been renamed Elgin's People. The article refers to the film as featuring "a computer-generated rag doll voiced by Dolly Parton, animated in three dimensions (how else?)."
Newsweek also confirmed that "Eisner wants to extend the lives of Disney's older characters by reanimating some classics for a new look. Imagine a 3-D Peter Pan soaring over a digitized London."
From Comingsoon.net