The Walt Disney Co. pushes back 'The Good Dinosaur', the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.
The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back The Good Dinosaur, the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.
The Good Dinosaur, which was to have hit theaters May 30, 2014, will now arrive November 25, 2015, on the date Finding Dory was set to open. That movie, Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo sequel, will now arrive in the summer of 2016.
“Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film,” Pixar's president, Ed Catmull, reportedly said. “Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time.”
Pixar removed director Bob Peterson from The Good Dinosaur over the summer, as the movie's release date approached and several creative decisions had not been made. The movie is based on the premise that an asteroid never hit Earth, and dinosaurs and humans coexist.
After Peterson left The Good Dinosaur, a team of people including Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich, Brave director Mark Andrews and the film's original co-director, Peter Sohn, began overseeing various sections of the movie. A replacement director has not yet been named.
Pixar, which typically releases one movie a year, has been moving toward its first year of releasing two movies. Pixar now plans to release two movies in 2015.
Before The Good Dinosaur, the studio's next movie will be Pete Docter's Inside Out, a project set inside the brain of a young girl. Inside Out is due June 19, 2015.
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
