Movieline’s funny tweet about that: “Let’s take a first look at Pixar’s Brave and pretend that it’s coming out this summer instead of Cars 2.”
Entertainment Weekly has posted three new images from Pixar’s Brave, scheduled for release in 2012. ¬†Indeed, we have to sort of wait out the whole Cars 2 thing before getting to Brave. ¬†But I also liked the comments over at EW that ruminate on Brave. ¬†First Cygnus says:
Although it’ll make $200mil, I think it’ll be Pixar’s first dud. Just the fact that they’re losing stars and directors, means that this was a foundering project. Pixar films have stood up not because of the computer technology, but because of the humanistic stories. The story is going to have to save this one.
But Cygnus is quickly confronted by Ecuamerican:
None of those things directly correlate to Pixar creating a dud. “Ratatouille” let go of the original writer and it easily became one of my favorite Pixar movies (and critically hailed as probably the best movie of that year). Reese Witherspoon is perceived to be a diva and I personally don’t like her, so I’m glad she dropped out (or pushed out, as I happily imagine). Changes to creative teams are natural in Hollywood and no one knows best how to execute it better than Pixar.
Either way, hard to disagree with Movieline about it not quite being time to get excited about Brave yet. ¬†Perhaps all of this Brave press is to counter Pixar’s last two movies being sequels. ¬†More pics over at EW.