Netflix continues to expand its slate of animated shows. It's not just about talking animals ...
Netflix on Monday took off the wraps on Love, Death & Robots, an adult-skeweing animated anthology series for the streaming giant that will be executive produced by David Fincher and Tim Miller via the latter’s Blur Studios. ...
[T]he 18-part series will span sci-fi, fantasy, horror and dark comedy, with episodes between 5-15 minutes long each created by different animation teams from around the world. Each will feature a unique style, from 2D to photo-real 3D CGI. ...
David Fincher is a director of live action: commercials, music videos, features, television, you name it. He directed Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. He directed Fight Club, Panic Room, and The Social Network (among others). And there were the first two chapters of Netflix's House of Cards.
Tim Miller is the director of Deadpool and the upcoming Terminator 6. Miller is also the co-founder of Blur studios.
In times gone by, neither of these men would be diving into animation. In times gone by (1920s to 1980s) live-action movers and shakers -- with the exception of Steven Spielberg -- had less than zero interest in getting heavily involved with animation. Most of the climbers in the movie industry had ambitions that ran in the other direction: people got into cartoons with the hope of spring-boarding into live-action.
In recent times, that progression has often been reversed. Live-action directors become directors/producers of animation. Where once cartoons were the small and shabby side-show to real movie-making (features with flesh-and-blood actors). But that's no longer the case. Animation is now a commercial powerhouse, rivaling super hero films. That being the case, it's really not a surprise that high-rollers from the the real-life side of motion pictures are happy to journey into the land of animation.
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ReplyDeletecristian maestreJanuary 8, 2019 at 5:41 AM
ReplyDeletei heard that theres a felix the cat reboot set to be released in spring 2019 in netflix do you know if this rumor is true?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DreamWorks_Animation_productions#Television_series
Dreamworks Animation bought the rights to Felix a few years ago, so if it's being done for Netflix, likely DWA is doing it.
Deletethanks for answering my question but theres something i forgot to ask:
ReplyDeletein july 2018 appeared a rumor that theres an oswald the lucky rabbit tv series in disney streaming series "disney+" do you know if this is true?
source of the rumor: https://thekingdominsider.com/rumor-oswald-television-show-in-the-works-of-disneys-streaming-service/
My guess (and it's only a guess) is that Disney will be doing things with Oswald, since they went to some effort to reclaim rights to the character. A streaming show would make sense, but I haven't heard of it emerging soon. (Obviously I could be wrong.)
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