Variety.com announced this morning that early-2000s animated series Kim Possible has joined the lineup of Disney live-action remakes of beloved animated projects — an impressively long list, which includes Dumbo, Aladdin, Lion King, Mulan, Cruella (101 Dalmatians) and Christopher Robin (Winnie the Pooh).
The live-action Kim Possible project, however, is planned as a Disney Channel Original Movie, rather than a theatrical release. The show creators, Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley, are already writing the script in preparation for the third KP television movie: animated DCOMs Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama and Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time came during the series’ initial four-season run, from 2002-2007.
A sneak peak of Big Hero 6 The Series, the new Big Hero 6 show on Disney XD!
This sneak peak, first shared by Entertainment Tonight, will also air during the return of the new DuckTales on Saturday, September 23. BH6 The Series debuts in November.
D23 news keeps giving, with now a first look at the complete Big Hero 6 TV show opening title sequence.
As you may recall, most of the film’s cast has returned for the show, and Baymax, voiced by the film’s Scott Adsit, sounds as great as expected. Looking forward to hearing newcomers Brooks Wheelan and Khary Payton in their takes on Fred and Wasabi, respectively.
Wasabi will now be voiced by Khary Payton (Cyborg from Teen Titans; also on current Disney show The Lion Guard), while Fred’s voice now comes from comedian Brooks Wheelan.
Follow the link above to find out more about the rest of the cast joining the Disney XD show.
Disney announced today that Big Hero 6 will be further developed in a TV series. The series is said to explore Hiro’s life at school with his hilarious cast of friends, Fred, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Gogo, and of course, Baymax. The team takes on the challenges of classes at
San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, while saving the city from super villains.
What’s really exciting about this series is that some of the brilliant creators behind Kim Possible will be coming on to make this new Big Hero 6 series happen. The show will be executive produced by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. Nicholas Filippi, who was a storyboard artist and storyboard supervisor on Kim Possible, will be the supervising director.
A Big Hero 6 series with this kind of tested talent could mean a big hit for Disney. Combine that with the fantastic characters from Big Hero 6 and there’s serious potential.
This is the second Disney series based on a film announced from this decade; the first was Tangled. The last time Disney made shows like this was during the 90s when their films were doing very well. We’re riding the wave of another up decade for Disney. And with the veterans they are putting into these film adapted TV series, there’s a lot to look forward to and hope for.
The Big Hero 6 TV series is expected to premier on Disney XD in 2017.
The Big Hero 6 series has naturally garnered a generous response! Here’s what you guys are saying:
The first thing I wanted when I finished watching Big Hero 6 was a proper Disney Channel spin-off to explore the universe. But from the creators of Kim Possible?! ACTUAL DREAM COME TRUE. - @anglosurfmops
@anglosurfmops I had a similar feeling. I wanted to get to know the side characters a whole lot more. Wasabi and Gogo? So cool (also, all of them). But we barely get to see them in the movie. I’m super pumped to get to know these characters really well in a series!
And I totally agree about the Kim Possible creators being involved. I don’t know how the potential could be better!
Disney announced today that Big Hero 6 will be further developed in a TV series. The series is said to explore Hiro’s life at school with his hilarious cast of friends, Fred, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Gogo, and of course, Baymax. The team takes on the challenges of classes at
San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, while saving the city from super villains.
What’s really exciting about this series is that some of the brilliant creators behind Kim Possible will be coming on to make this new Big Hero 6 series happen. The show will be executive produced by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. Nicholas Filippi, who was a storyboard artist and storyboard supervisor on Kim Possible, will be the supervising director.
A Big Hero 6 series with this kind of tested talent could mean a big hit for Disney. Combine that with the fantastic characters from Big Hero 6 and there’s serious potential.
This is the second Disney series based on a film announced from this decade; the first was Tangled. The last time Disney made shows like this was during the 90s when their films were doing very well. We’re riding the wave of another up decade for Disney. And with the veterans they are putting into these film adapted TV series, there’s a lot to look forward to and hope for.
The Big Hero 6 TV series is expected to premier on Disney XD in 2017.
Just looking at the list here, this movie is easily the most lackluster. I haven’t yet seen Boxtrolls or Song of the Sea, but you know Laika ALWAYS delivers something great, and Song of the Sea was done by the same folks who did Secret of Kells in ’09 which was a stunningly good film.
Big Hero 6 was simply written out of its depth. Multiple times during the course of the movie I thought, “This would have been better as a live-action film coming out a few years from now.” Animated features typically run shorter than live-action. There are some notable exceptions, even from this list in Princess Kaguya which clocks an impressive 2 hours and 17 minutes, but for the most part, animated films are hitting that sweet spot between 90 and 120 minutes.
That’s just not enough time for this movie to get off the ground. It had so much to offer in terms of depth of character and background, but they had to skip a lot of that to get to our climax before the credits. Even so, the falling action filled only about 5 minutes. They cut it as short as they could without going full Maltese Falcon and it was still not enough.
The premise of the film is a young tech-prodigy living with his older brother who is also a tech-prodigy in San Fransokyo (I love and hate saying that word out loud), a city seemingly full of other tech-prodigies, who wants to go to a school for, um…tech-prodigies…
You get where I’m going. By the time we hit our hero’s threshold, the setting has become a parody of futuristic anime and comic books and sci-fi movies all clumped together. And keeping with that common, albeit twisted, thread, our hero, Hiro (yeah, yeah I know), loses his brother, Tadashi, and vows robot revenge.
Thus, our team is assembled. Hiro is clearly better at tech-prodigy-ing than anyone else, so he builds costumes for his brother’s friends and they form Big Hero 6 and vow revenge on the villain who killed Tadashi. My gripe is that by this point, Hiro has known these folks for maybe a week. And they’re willing to just accept this kid into their fold and then risk their lives for his revenge? I’ve seen fast moving plots, but flying robots and laser blade hands and frictionless bikes aside, my disbelief could not be suspended any longer.
That’s why I say this could have been a better film in live-action. You would have had to wait a while to make sure you could make it look good, because we know animated films don’t always translate to live-action. Some of the characters would have been on the edge of goofy, but you put this in the Blade Runner-verse, make San Fransokyo gritty and wet and dark, give our characters some real time to join together as a team, finish them off with some actual character development rather than simply getting past his high-tech temper tantrum, and you’ve got a killer flick. I’d watch the guff out of something like that.
Oscar rating for this film? A good watch for kids, but just not enough to cut it with the big dogs. I give it 2 Kabuki masks out of 5. No way this walks home with the Oscar.
For Your 2015 Animated Feature Oscar Consideration
Part Two of Two
Twenty films were submitted last week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the 20 films in the running for a 2015 Oscar nomination in the Feature-Length Animation category. Some of these are incredible works of art and movie magic, while others…well, others I wouldn’t even consider including in the composited images the list inspired me to create this week. Below is the list of movies that could be nominated for an Oscar next year. The ones in bold are featured in the picture above.
When [John] Lasseter and [Ed] Catmull came aboard [the failing Walt Disney Animation Studios team], they were encouraged to consider shuttering Disney Animation altogether and replacing it with the ascendant Pixar. But Dumbo is Lasseter’s favorite movie of all time. As a child, Catmull spent countless hours imagining himself in the worlds of Pinocchio and Peter Pan. It was Disney that inspired their careers in the first place.
“There was so much pressure on us to close these doors,” Lasseter says. “Ed and I absolutely could not do that.”
WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at least his movie character form.
From inspiration from the original Baymax from classic Marvel comics to real-life robotics and even penguins and diapered toddlers, Disney artists worked hard to determine the most adorable, huggable and relatable robot we’ve probably ever seen. (Sorry, WALL-E… your dust-and-rust-covered shell doesn’t exactly encourage hugs).
Here are more photos from Big Hero 6 development. You can read more about it in this coming month’s WIRED and online about halfway through this article.
Some of the photos above show a very different Baymax than the final product, but this proves an excellent point — in character design, revisionkeeps happening. Baymax could have been round. Hiro could have traveled by backpack, or Baymax, traveled by suitcase. Baymax could have been see-through and a clean freak and a number of other things that were cool, but Disney animators weren’t satisfied until they found the perfect product. May we always do the same in our own work.
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