Disney may have bought Pixar, but Pixar took over
Now with Pixar’s Ed Catmull and John Lasseter running the show at Disney, one must wonder what will happen to the future of Disney? Pixar is a studio attempting to hit a one-film a year production rate. Disney makes a lot more movies…some of questionable merit. Rumor has it that production on Toy Story 3 has already halted. What about Rapunzel Unbraided, Pinocchio 2000, and that Snow White remake? What will happen to those films? I heard Ed Catmull give a talk on the production crisis of Toy Story 2. They were not happy with the story, production halted, and they did a frantic rewrite. Frankly, every Pixar film has gone through a similar crisis, or so I hear. Can they impose that on the 3 production Disney has in the works? After all, Pixar has something like 3 or 4 shows either in development or production as we speak. Will they start to neglect their own productions? Will Disney become the studio that produces the crappier secondary features made to compete with PDI Dreamwork’s winter features? One thing’s for sure, Dreamwork just lost their edge with numbers. In the future, I’m sure we will see as many Disney/Pixar films as PDI Dreamworks.