2008 is the year. Pixar studios recently wowed the world with Ratatouille and Wall-E, and are about to release their new feature films: Up, an ambitious epic set in October, and Toy Story 3, Andy’s new Toy Story adventure.
But the small desk lamp company has another mysterious project on its calendar: the so-called Newt, expected in 2011 and entrusted to Gary Rydstrom, the legendary sound engineer known for working on classics like Jurassic Park. Titanic and Terminator 2. At Pixar, he already tried his hand at directing with the hilarious short film Extra-Terrien, which was featured in the first part of the film. Ratatouille.
Against the background of all the pitches that Pixar has offered so far, Newt is supposed to tell the story of two newts – a male and a female – who are the last representatives of their species on Earth. Embarking on a great journey together, they can only rely on each other to ensure the sustainability of the Blue Legs, but they face a major problem: they cannot support each other.
Three years before daylight, Newt already has a set release date (summer 2011) and Pixar has even released some concept visuals to tease the new project: we can see one of the two amphibians locked up. vivarium, and then sat on the hood ornament of a speeding car in the rain.
It’s been over 10 years and Pixar’s two newts have never had the chance to show their noses on the big screen. After being held back for an entire year and being picked up by the legendary Pete Docter (Pixar co-founder, director of Up and Monsters Inc.), Newt was simply abandoned.
Even if studio executives didn’t really give an official explanation for this cancellation, many of them speculated that the film’s script was too close to another animated feature produced by Blue Sky Studios at the same time: Rio.
Indeed, this Carlos Saldanha film also featured two members of the same species that he brought together, except they were blue macaws from Brazil, not newts.
Was this competing project enough to discourage the Pixar artists? What stage of development had Newt’s project reached when it was abandoned? Will we be able to discover new concept art or making-of sequences from the film? Will the studio pull this old file out of the safe to give the two tritons a chance to go into the darkrooms?
Anyway, Elementary , the new Pixar feature directed by Peter Sohn, hits theaters June 20.
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