bonacera
December 6th, 2004, 04:23 PM
A source for Ain't-It-Cool-News attended a Walt Disney Feature Animation presentation in Rotterdam where the studio revealed it is working on The Wild. Here's a few clips on the project...
It's a computer-animated feature called 'The Wild' and it's due for release in the early summer of 2005. For this film, the mouse-factory has teamed up with San Francisco-based Complete Pandemonium and some Canadian company called Core Technologies. 'The Wild' is being directed by Steve 'Spaz' Williams, who some of you might know from those damn funny Blockbuster-hamster commercials. Williams also worked on that 'Spawn'-movie, but I guess everybody makes mistakes.
According to Disney-lady, 'The Wild' follows the adventures of Ryan (at least, I think his name was Ryan) - a teenage Lion living in the New York Zoo. The ideas Pandemonium has for this zoo are actually pretty cool. When all the visitors and staff have left, the zoo kinda becomes a Michael Sowa-esque fantasy world, where Giraffes and Elephants play turtle-curling (yes, it's pretty funny) and young creatures run amok. After chasing some harmless animals, Ryan accidentally gets trapped inside a crate and is shipped to Madag- I mean, just plain Africa. A group of zoo-heroes team up to save young Ryan. The team consists of an older lion (I believe his name was Samson), a female giraffe named Bridgette, an Anaconda with a brain the size of a pea, a little squirrel who has a huge crush on Bridgette (hilarity ensues) and a Koala who hates being called 'cute'.
Disney-lady didn't have any rough animation to show us, but she did present us with some character-sketches and early movie-stills.
Does it sound too much like DreamWorks' Madagascar? You be the judge.
From : http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3543
It's a computer-animated feature called 'The Wild' and it's due for release in the early summer of 2005. For this film, the mouse-factory has teamed up with San Francisco-based Complete Pandemonium and some Canadian company called Core Technologies. 'The Wild' is being directed by Steve 'Spaz' Williams, who some of you might know from those damn funny Blockbuster-hamster commercials. Williams also worked on that 'Spawn'-movie, but I guess everybody makes mistakes.
According to Disney-lady, 'The Wild' follows the adventures of Ryan (at least, I think his name was Ryan) - a teenage Lion living in the New York Zoo. The ideas Pandemonium has for this zoo are actually pretty cool. When all the visitors and staff have left, the zoo kinda becomes a Michael Sowa-esque fantasy world, where Giraffes and Elephants play turtle-curling (yes, it's pretty funny) and young creatures run amok. After chasing some harmless animals, Ryan accidentally gets trapped inside a crate and is shipped to Madag- I mean, just plain Africa. A group of zoo-heroes team up to save young Ryan. The team consists of an older lion (I believe his name was Samson), a female giraffe named Bridgette, an Anaconda with a brain the size of a pea, a little squirrel who has a huge crush on Bridgette (hilarity ensues) and a Koala who hates being called 'cute'.
Disney-lady didn't have any rough animation to show us, but she did present us with some character-sketches and early movie-stills.
Does it sound too much like DreamWorks' Madagascar? You be the judge.
From : http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3543