Comments on: L.A. Animation Overview

By: Earl K

Earl K — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:25:33 +0000

The Tinkerbell movie has too much merchandising behind it for Pixar to kill, but JL sent it back to be almost completely redone from scratch. There’s a trailer around somewhere that apparently has nothing to do with the current version of the film.

But I’m a little baffled that there will be another one after this.

By: Andrew W. Laubacher

Andrew W. Laubacher — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:41:51 +0000

So, is Mr. Timm’s actual credit for something like “Supervising Director?” I know that he’s also a producer on this.

It seems that the July 15th release date is INCORRECT. James Harvey of the site, The World’s Finest, did some checking and says that more information will be released this weekend (at Wonder-Con, I presume). He also informs me that Christian Bale is not providing the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman for BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT.

By: Kelly Tindall

Kelly Tindall — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:39:04 +0000

Does anybody know which directors are in charge of the different “Gotham Knight” segments? I understand Bruce Timm is the director of the project, but I’d love to find out who is directing each short.

Bruce told me himself that Satoshi Kon isn’t involved, which would have been baffling but lovely.

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:22:10 +0000

James Cagney? I was thinking more on Leonardo DiCaprio :-)

By: Andrew W. Laubacher

Andrew W. Laubacher — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:35 +0000

Batman: Gotham Knight writer Josh Olson posted on Harlan Ellison’s boards (where he’s a regular) that the Gotham Knight DTV will be released the same week that The Dark Knight premiers. So, the DVD should be for sale on July 15th.

By: K.Borcz

K.Borcz — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:15 +0000

Lol Steve Gattuso. But nothing beats the South Park kids in WOW.

I could see the fairies thing as a tv show, but a movie?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:25:52 +0000

Continuing the Tinkerbell brand makes perfect financial sense. It’s a huge moneymaker and it’s not exactly high profile. If the Pixar guys were to pull the plug on this, they would probably suffer severely. They need to get their money somewhere while they try to breath life into the feature division once again.

I’m fine with Tinkerbell, since it’s a spinoff and not exactly a sequel to beloved Disney classic cartoons. Plus the demographic is really clear. Direct to Video sequels kills the magic of the original, which was probably why it was so frustrating to see up until the merger.

By: galacticadude

galacticadude — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:23:14 +0000

I thought “Fairies” was to be a TV series by Disney. Maybe contracts were in place for Tinkerbell 2&3 before Pixar (JL) took over.