Pixar News Round Up

There has been a TON of Pixar news lately thanks to the D23 expo (Disney + Founded in 1923 = D23, the Disney version of Comic Con). Here are a few tidbits and links to more info, mostly gathered by /Film and The Pixar Blog.

• "The Untitled Pixar Movie about Dinosaurs" - to be released in November, 2013. The concept revolves around the idea that dinosaurs never went extinct. Interesting, for sure, but let's hope that the plot involves more than the small boy featured in the concept art. There's no rule that girls can't like dinosaurs, too, ok? Also, women can be protagonists without it having to be a fairy tale or even directed (or half-directed) by a woman... got that, Pixar? (I note this not because I want there to be fewer female directors - obviously, I want there to be more! - but because they love to use the excuse "I'm a male director so I have male leads" which is lame. [Temp logo here]
• "The Untitled Pixar Movie that Takes You Inside the Mind" - to be released in May, 2014. It's being directed by Pete Doctor and co-directed by Ronnie del Carmen (who directed the adorable and super-sweet short, "Dug's New Mission"), and there's not much more to know about the concept besides the faux-title. It is suggested that Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) will write, but that's not definite. 
• "Monsters University" - may or may not be terrible. They pitched it as a college comedy that takes place in a world of monsters, which I'd actually like better if we hadn't already seen a world of monsters in "Monsters, Inc." You know? Plus, Sulley and Mike as rivals who become friends? Really? Anyway, let's just hope it's not terrible. 
• "Brave" - lots more info! They screened new footage (that looked both promising but also possibly too goofy to the guys in the /Film video blog) and released a new plot synopsis that feels too spoilery to put on here. One fun factoid is that it's been a major animation challenge because making things look old in animation is significantly harder than making it look new. This makes perfect sense, because old things have more layers, textures, and imperfections than new things have, which means you have to add a lot more detail. Poor animators! But I'm sure it'll look awesome. [Even more info at Pixar Planet, /Film's source on this]

Anyway, thanks to The Pixar Blog and /Film for gathering all of this great information. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see these new movies (besides "Monsters University") and I'm so completely thrilled that Pixar is doing at least two original films after this recent rush of sequels. Phew!