Noah Baumbach Directing ‘Flawed Dogs’ for DreamWorks Animation
Noah Baumbach‘s last film, Frances Ha, was shot and finished without many people knowing about it; the director’s involvement was only revealed just before the film premiered at Telluride. ...
Now it seems like the Greenberg and The Squid and the Whale director is taking a similar approach with another film; the difference is that this is an animated project, for a major studio. Even better, the film, Flawed Dogs, is based on recent work by cartoonist and author Berkley Breathed. ...
This isn’t Baumbach’s first foray into animation, as he co-wrote both Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Fantastic Mr. Fox. ...
Jeffrey Katzenberg has often been ahead of the curve in his choices animation directors. Brenda Chapman was the first female story director with Beauty and the Beast, and then Jeffrey assigned her as the co-director for The Prince of Egypt.
And now he's hiring live-action directors. Mr. Baumbach joins Rob Minkoff, a veteran of both live-action and animated features, on the Glendale lot. (Gore Verbinski was the first live-action director to cross over to animation and prosper. His Rango won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for 2011.)
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"Gore Verbinski was the first live-action director to cross over to animation and prosper."
Poor Bob Z. ... kicked out of Toon Town. And George Miller doesn't have Happy Feet no mo'
How soon they forget ...
Yeah, you're right. I overlooked those.
Although to be fair, I never really considered the Zemeckis pictures "animated" in the purist sense of the word. And James Cameron is an animation director too, don't you agree?
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