Pixar Announces Dinosaur Movie For Holiday 2013 [D23 Expo]
By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2011 2:21 pm EST
Pixar’s Holiday 2013 movie is about dinosaurs. In the presentation, they revealed a joke working title (complete with logo): “The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs”. Here is the official plot synopsis from Disney:
And here is a bit of information on the filmmakers behind the movie:
What if that life-changing asteroid missed Earth? Director Bob Peterson’s hilarious tale depicts a world where dinosaurs never went extinct.
Bob Peterson started at Pixar as an additional animator and layout artist on Toy Story, and worked on the story team for A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. He was a story supervisor on Monsters Inc, and a writer on Finding Nemo and Up. He is better known to the public at large as the voice of Dug the dog from Up, Mr. Ray from Finding Nemo, Roz from Monsters Inc and Geri from the short film Geri’s Game. He made his directorial debut on Up alongside Pete Doctor.
The film is co-directed by longtime Pixar storyboard artist and animator Peter Sohn, who made his directorial debut with the Pixar short film Partly Cloudy. The movie is produced by John Walker, producer of The Incredibles.
They also revealed a piece of concept art that was created for the movie showing a silhouetted brachiosaurus with a small kid on his head, standing in front of a sunset. Disney has not released this image online, but we do have some images from the past.
You might recall that in August 2009, Pixar fans spotted some concept artwork featuring a boy and his dinosaur, on sculptor Greg Dykstra’s wall in behind the scenes b-roll footage for Pete Docter’s Up. Someone also noticed some interesting postings made by Pixar animator and paleontology buff Austin Madison on his personal blog recounting a trip taken by a group of Pixar dino enthusiasts, including Dykstra, to the badlands of South Dakota. Anyone who follows Pixar’s development process probably knows that the animation studio’s artists usually take research field trips while developing new films. For Ratatouille, they took a trip to Paris to study the city and eat in some of the fine restaurants. For Up, they took a trip to South America to study the the strange wilderness of the region.
Later, PixarTalk posteda photo showing Up production designer Ricky Nierva standing in front of even more concept art from the project, showing the boy, a brontosaurus, a prehistoric alligator, a pterodactyl, and a mosquito. Check out the full photo below.
No screenwriter was officially announced for the project. The movie will hit theaters on November 27th, 2013.
