Originally Posted By mawnck New Leslie Iwerks documentary. Comes out 2016. trailer is here now. And I don't have the faintest idea which of the several applicable sections to post this in, so it's here! <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/leslie-iwerks-imagineering-doc">http://blogs.indiewire.com/ani...ring-doc</a>
Originally Posted By danyoung I got all excited watching the trailer the other day, and then really bummed when I read it wasn't coming out till 2016. I had my credit cards out all ready to make an order!
Originally Posted By dagobert I've just watched this very interesting trailer and I can't wait to see that documentary. Hopefully it will make it to Europe too. I guess it will cover the creating of Shanghai Disneyland. Otherwise it doesn't make sense that it will released in three years. That's a longer timeframe than most movies need to be finished.
Originally Posted By ecdc The first half of that trailer looked amazing! The second half looked like an infomercial for the parks that I might see on the Travel Channel.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I wanted to laugh - "We are in a renaissance" I'd like to say - Then how do you explain - * DCA 1.0 * WDSP * HKDL The "DL Lite" * Everest Yeti problems * 2 Journey Into Imagination remakes and still can't get it right * TL:98 * Stitche's great fart Escape * More toons in Tomorrowlands that only work to diminish the primary theme * Franchises over Original content * A recent history of letting go their best imagineering talents - Along with a recent one who has been kicked to the curb earlier this year * (Surely I'm missing more to add to the list!) Renaissance my *ss! They are in a dark place, FULL of internal office politics! With no sign of light at the end of this tunnel!
Originally Posted By mawnck The only difference I see between the first half and the second half is that the first half's Imagineering footage was shot on 16mm film. Old infomercial footage ≈ new infomercial footage. Just sayin'. PS - Open memo to Leslie Iwerks ... Whoever you have in charge of transferring your standard definition videotape footage to HD isn't deinterlacing it properly. You're going to have a horrible looking mess on your hands if you don't get that sorted. (See also: Ken Burns' Prohibition series.)
Originally Posted By ecdc At some indefinable time, old infomercial footage becomes quaint and nostalgic, or at least a curiosity. New infomercials, not so much.
Originally Posted By Captain Neo >>I wanted to laugh - "We are in a renaissance" I'd like to say - Then how do you explain - * DCA 1.0 * WDSP * HKDL The "DL Lite" * Everest Yeti problems * 2 Journey Into Imagination remakes and still can't get it right * TL:98 * Stitche's great fart Escape * More toons in Tomorrowlands that only work to diminish the primary theme * Franchises over Original content * A recent history of letting go their best imagineering talents - Along with a recent one who has been kicked to the curb earlier this year * (Surely I'm missing more to add to the list!) Renaissance my *ss! They are in a dark place, FULL of internal office politics! With no sign of light at the end of this tunnel!<< Uh all of that stuff happened over ten years ago for the most part. The renaissance is happening now with Cars Land, Mystic Manor and the other HKDL additions, The Avatar project, etc. I'm going to assume they are waiting for 2016 so that it can end on a really high note with the opening of Star Wars Land.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 That trailer is really wonderful. But my interest dipped a bit when they got to the new guys. Mary Blair, John Hench, Marc Davis--those are the kinds of people I'm more interested in hearing about. Look forward to seeing the film.
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan "The renaissance is happening now with Cars Land, Mystic Manor and the other HKDL additions, The Avatar project, etc." That's debatable. Nothing there really a renaissance. Carsland rockwork was outstanding, but beyond scale, nothing Disney hasn't done before. HKDL additions - ToyStoryLand is nothing revolutionary. We'll have to wait and see about Avatar.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby Really looking forward to this doc, but... They sure have a lot of interviews shot already for a movie that won't be released for 3 more years. What's really going on?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would guess that the focus of the film will be on the construction of the Shanghai park. Since the design is done, and Imagineering's history is pretty solid, they can do most of the interviews ahead of time, and then just plop them in with the new footage as they fit. Of course, they'll probably have some interviews that deal directly with project updates, but most of the narative can be framed out ahead of time
Originally Posted By mawnck >>They sure have a lot of interviews shot already for a movie that won't be released for 3 more years. What's really going on?<< Odds are that a lot of the interviews in the trailer were originally shot for other projects.
Originally Posted By dagobert Sorry for bringing this topic back, but do you think this documentary will come next year? Is it still in production? I haven't heard anything about it since the announcement. I think it will cover a lot of SDL's construction and since the opening date got postponed, the documentary might as well come later. Hopefully they show something of it at the upcoming D23 Expo.
Originally Posted By dagobert And since we are already talking about WDI, does anyone know if the book about WDI and George Lucas by Jason Surrell is still coming? Surrell isn't with Disney anymore, I think he is now with Universal Creative. >>And now I’m in the early stages of developing a coffee table book about all of Walt Disney Imagineering’s theme park collaborations with George Lucas. << <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starwars.com/news/heres-where-the-fun-begins">http://www.starwars.com/news/h...n-begins</a>
This movies was supposed to come out last year. Does anyone know what happened to it? Did they cancel the film?
It's four years later now and still no sign of this movie. I guess Disney cancelled it along the way??
