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Ezra
09-30-2007, 01:24 AM
Word is going around the internet that Disney's got a new stop-motion animation feature in the works:.
Disney Slips About Stop Motion Project (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Disney-Slips-About-Stop-Motion-Project-6496.html)
Cinema Blend

Ain’t It Cool News is featuring a reader report from a recent event held by Disney in celebration of their upcoming picture Enchanted. After a screening of the picture, Dick Cook held a Q&A session where word moved to the future for Disney. Cook mentioned The Princess and the Frog and then let it slip that the Mouse House would be producing a stop-motion animated project “helmed by the creative mastermind behind the majority of stop-motion pictures in the last decade.” Well, there certainly isn’t a whole lot of names vying for that accomplishment, so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to think it’s going to be Burton. Solid details should be released in about a month.
complete article (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Disney-Slips-About-Stop-Motion-Project-6496.html)
.I didn't want to post this as "news" because Ain't It Cool News isn't a very reliable source. It could just be a rumor.
echoscot
09-30-2007, 02:29 PM
That is still interesting. Sometimes Aint it cool is on target, though and othertimes they miss by a mile.
Magic1
09-30-2007, 02:31 PM
Hmm... When I think of the "majority of stop-motion pictures in the last decade" I think of Aardman/Nick Park of Wallace & Gromit/Chicken Run/Shaun the Sheep/Creature Comforts fame and not Tim Burton.

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TopCat8
09-30-2007, 03:04 PM
Hmm... When I think of the "majority of stop-motion pictures in the last decade" I think of Aardman/Nick Park of Wallace & Gromit/Chicken Run/Shaun the Sheep/Creature Comforts fame and not Tim Burton.

.:Magic1:.
I agree that I think of them first, but Burton already has a long history with Disney, so I would assume it would be made by him.
Ezra
09-30-2007, 04:38 PM
Dreamworks recently dumped Aardman, so it could be that Disney is picking them up.
lpetiti
10-01-2007, 12:53 PM
I am not a big fan of Tim Burton, so I don't know how much I like this idea.
Ezra
10-01-2007, 02:19 PM
More rumors:

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Tim Burton to direct Frankenweenie Stop-Motion Animated Feature Film? (http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/01/tim-burton-to-direct-frankenweenie-stop-motion-animated-feature-film/)
/Film

Ain't it Cool received an anonymous e-mail tip claiming that Burton will in fact be making a stop motion animated feature length remake of his infamous short Frankenweenie. Frankenweenie is a parody of the 1931 Frankenstein film. Burton made the short black and white film in 1984.
complete article (http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/01/tim-burton-to-direct-frankenweenie-stop-motion-animated-feature-film/)
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monkey4057
10-01-2007, 04:47 PM
Eentelesting idea. Frankenweenie was a good film but live-action seems to suit it more than stop-motion.
tomserwin
10-01-2007, 05:06 PM
I love the way Tim Burton's mind works and how he adds a darker side to everything. Plus I love stop-motion (mostly in Robot Chicken). This has potential.