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Disney Scraps 'Mouse Guard' 2 Weeks Before Production Starts
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While this isn't quite final look of the movie it looks great for presentation purposes
It's a shame it got cancelled
Those faces are actual nightmare fuel but I'm still bummed about this. Turn it into an 2D animated Disney+ series or something goddamn.
Yeah. Idea seems neat but like box office poison. The time and money that would be put into it probably wouldn't have been worth it.
Um. The mice look super weird, nothing like the OP's pic. Why would they make them look so... creepy?
I'm not feeling it at all.
Like I think this would be better if it was traditional animation, but 3D animations just creeps me out for this kind of thing.
Like I think this would be better if it was traditional animation, but 3D animations just creeps me out for this kind of thing.
The glory days of 20th Century Fox are long gone. Sad to see a major studio die like this. Time to brace myself for the inevitable closure of Fox Searchlight Pictures. :(
Wouldn't call that amazing when the design of the mice is pretty awful.
Yeah, the designs they came up with don't look anything like the source material. Ghost of a Tale looks more Mouse Guard than this. The structures should be far simpler and mice in the books are far more abstract and cuter than.... that. Strange design decisions.
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Didn't anyone read the blurb at the front of the video? This is a realtime virtual environment that you could plug performance capture into live and view on set.
The lack of fur is probably necessary to run in realtime, and I'm guessing the proportions are more human-like to view performances immediately, and they'd be re-rigged in something more mouse-like later.
The lack of fur is probably necessary to run in realtime, and I'm guessing the proportions are more human-like to view performances immediately, and they'd be re-rigged in something more mouse-like later.
The price tag for this film was $170m, that's way too much for a studio to invest in a project like this.
Apologies if this has been mentioned, but if I recall correctly WETA Digital would have taken over production on the next stage.
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It looks like he's been posting lots of info and concept art. Losing this one really hurts; it looks so good. Some of the art is amazing.
Didn't WETA also have The Wind in the Willows get cancelled a few years back? That would've been another potentially great project.
I'm still really sad about this. It could have been great.
There is nothing cheap about the comic. It's absolutely beautifully drawn. If the move had captured the same feel it would have been something special.
There is nothing cheap about the comic. It's absolutely beautifully drawn. If the move had captured the same feel it would have been something special.
I was so excited for this. This just makes it worse knowing what could have been.
edit: oh. this is a very old thread.
those mice in that vid look extremely ugly though. i would never watch 2 hours of that.
those mice in that vid look extremely ugly though. i would never watch 2 hours of that.
Yup. As cool as the action looks, this movie would have bombed super hard in the current box office climate.
That Unreal Engine footage already looks better than Tales of Despereaux. Sad this won't get made, even if it would be a bomb (attached to the Disney name it could have succeeded, but an indie version wouldn't). One of the first books I bought my daughter. Neat to see Gary Whitta wrote it; I still think GAF did him wrong. Internet jealousy is a powerful thing.
So? Did that finally make back its budget?Guess what other Fox movie had a $170M budget?
Nope. Which is why Disney canning a $170M CG movie with mice isn't shocking.
Ah, thought you were saying otherwise. My bad.
But yea, mouse guard isn't worth that kinda risk. I'm sure people with more market Information than any of us could see came to that conclusion pretty quickly as well.
The quality they're getting in a real-time pre-vis is kind of amazing.
Yeah, Disney only greenlights surefire hits like A Wrinkle in Time and the Nutcracker.
Oh a Gary Whitta joint. No big loss then.
that's not why it was canned though. it's only pre-vis, they weren't going to use any of the models you see in teh video
I'd hope not! But even then, I have been more uncomfortable!
It does remind me of that cool owl movie though. That also didn't do well, did it?
as much as I would love for a feature film in UE4, no one is going to commit to that. especially not at $170M. there's a reason why you never see previs, cause if you thought this was bad, most can be worse