/Film got a first look at this promo image from Discovery Channel's Reign of the Dinosaurs, being produced in collaboration with Disney and Pixar. Exactly what Pixar's role is in the production isn't really clear yet. When the project was announced, studio publicity told me: "All the information available is in the release you received. Beyond that, we have no comment."
See the /Film article for bios on some of the people bringing their talent to the miniseries.
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Update: Discovery Channel released a statement to /Film expressly stating that Reign of the Dinosaurs is not, in fact, a co-production with Disney or Pixar.
It reads:
"Reign of the Dinosaurs is being produced by Creative Differences for Discovery Channel. While we are privileged to have incredible artists who have worked with Pixar and Disney on... Reign of the Dinosaurs, the production is not a Pixar project."
This must mean that RotD is not the much talked about unannounced Pixar "boy/dinosaur" film suggested by concept art, as was previously assumed. They are evidently completely unrelated.
So the mystery of Pixar's prehistoric project continues. Is it a short? A feature? Who's the director? What is it all about?
(Updated July 14)
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I just got back from toy story 3!!!! And Its still awesome!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm...are those names near the bottom the names of people doing the production? If so, are there any Pixarians listed?
Ronnie del Carmen's directorial debut is my bet...
His directorial debut was actually feature-based short Dug's Special Mission. But, yeah, he could be involved. He's said he 'knows what it's about'.
I meant feature directorial debut...
I'm wondering if this Pixar "boy/dinosaur" film could possibly be this big Secret project of Mr. Lee Unkrich that everyone has been talked about. As you can see, they aren't really keeping the whole dinosaur themed project very tightly under wraps.
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