FIRST LOOK: Walt @DisneyAnimation Studios’ “Strange World,” journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await. Directed by Don Hall, co-directed & written by Qui Nguyen, & produced by Roy Conli, Strange World arrives November 23, 2022.
Can't tell if that's a father and son or daughter, but looks like somebody wanted to make the movie that "Atlantis" wasn't.
I'll give it the benefit of the doubt until we get something a little more solid to go on.
The main character in the film is Ethan, a Bi-racial (Caucasian/African-American) 14-year old. The studio is looking for voiceover talent 18 and older to play the role. According to the logline, Ethan “sounds very typical as far as teenagers go. Playful and quick-witted, but can also retreat. He can be a wise-ass, but he isn’t particularly tough. The actor VOICING him should be FUNNY, LIKABLE, & SOUND LIKE A 14 YR OLD, but also possess the ability to quickly turn inward and show us a SOFT EMOTIONAL SIDE.”
Auditions for the film began May 31 with production officially starting yesterday, July 1.
Today, Walt Disney Animation Studios released a teaser trailer and poster from the all-new feature film Strange World. Jake Gyllenhaal (The Guilty, Spider-Man: Far from Home) lends his voice to Searcher Clade, the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest—and by far— most crucial mission.
Well this looks all kinds of derivative nuts! Kind of peters out towards the end, but it certainly looks "different", in that Disney-predictable kind of way.
Just like all modern films today that rely too much on CGI - MCU, Star Wars, Avatar.... They are all video games and the audience is watching someone playing.
Collider wrote:The animated film will be led by the vocal talents of Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far from Home) as the protagonist, Searcher Clade. The black sheep of his family, Searcher chose a very different path from the others. Coming from a long lineage of brave and daring explorers, Searcher instead decided to get his hands dirty differently - by becoming a farmer. But in Strange World, Searcher needs to team up with his family to help them complete an incredibly dangerous mission. As he steps out of his comfort zone, Searcher is amazed and intrigued by the unknown alien world that surrounds him.
Searcher.
I'm just not feeling it. Character designs are meh.
Disney Balks At “Anti-Consumer” French Windows: Will Bypass Theatrical On ‘Strange World’ In Market, Evaluate Future Films On Rolling Basis
Disney is taking a stance versus the recently revised French windowing system, opting to bypass theatrical on animated action adventure Strange World in France and sending it directly to Disney Plus.
In a strongly-worded statement provided to Deadline, a studio spokesperson said: “Strange World will be available to all Disney+ subscribers in France, foregoing a French cinematic release. While we support French cinema — and have for decades — the new, cumbersome media chronology is anti-consumer, ignoring how behavior has evolved over the last several years and puts us at increased risk for piracy. We will continue to make decisions on a film-by-film basis and according to each market’s unique conditions.”
Strange World will be available to all Disney+ subscribers in France, foregoing a French cinematic release…
…and puts us at increased risk for piracy.
Kinda dumb to make your argument by fuelling the very thing you are arguing against.
And, if anything, the pandemic has shown that audiences can’t wait to ditch their streamers and go back to seeing big movies on a big screen in big cinemas with big crowds. Streaming has a place, but increasingly, as it settles down after the initial explosion and bolstered by a pandemic that saw people unable to leave their homes, that place is as just another home video format. Which should come after a cinema window. Natch.
The Diz just doesn’t like it that it can’t shrink that window in France, because the French respect cinema as an art form and recognise that films are meant to be seen on big screens first. So it will cut its nose off to spite its face and make its new films nothing more than TV movies. That pirates can copy. Nice.
I think Big D is upset that Netflix, a company that barely releases movies to theatres in any significant way, is getting preferential treatment from a law meant to protect French cinema when they, who actually are a major player when it comes to theatrical output, have to jump through a bunch of hoops after their films leave theatres.
As for the pirates, it looks like D+ France won’t get the movie at the same time it’s in theatres everywhere else, but when it hits D+ in other countries.
