Kelly Asbury, director, of Gnomeo and Juliet, has moved over to Sony Pictures Animation ...
Kelly Asbury, the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet, has been hired to write the adaptation of Pooch Café for Sony Pictures Animation. ...
Mr. Asbury has been in the biz a long time, directing two features at DreamWorks Animation and story supervising two others. Like a number of other animation directors (Rob Minkoff, Chris Sanders and Lorna Cooke come to mind) he goes where the directing gigs are.
(As animated features get produced by more and more studios, directors of animated features behave like their live-action counterparts, moving from studio to studio. The days of cartoon directors staying with one producer for their entire creative lives is, I think, drawing to a close.)
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Yes, it's rare now for a director to stay permanently at one studio. Even Ron & John left Disney for a few years.
Thankfully, now they're back, and working on an awesome adaptation of "Rumpelstiltskin."
Vigorously nodding my head in agreement with the comment above.
vigorously rolling my eyes!
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Thankfully, now they're back, and working on an awesome adaptation of "Rumpelstiltskin."
Ain't what they're working on. And it ain't "Saucy Jack," either.
I told you, the title's now "Saucy!"
That way it appeals to both boys and girls. The Jack the Ripper angle sells better if they remove 'Jack'.
"You're a naughty one, Saucy Jack.... You're a haughty one, Saucy Jack."
It's too bad R&J are doing the old FA thing of going back to when Jack was a kid, and showing the formative years of Lil Jack as a yearning lonely misfit dreaming of someday 'fitting in'.
Songs by Stephen Schwartz. Lyrics by Rob Zombie.
Lasseter already passed on Saucy Jack months ago.
The visdev on Rumpelstiltskin is frankly the best I've seen in over a decade. Now that Mike Gabriel is on board as Art Director, the visuals and character designs on the walls on the 3rd floor are awe-inspiring.
Pixar will have to start upping their game to compete with FA if things keep going the way they are.
Poor Kelly Asbury. He gets a whole post on the TAG Blog and people are more concerned with fake posts.
You're a fake post!
You didn't even know Kelly was a girl.
Anyway, hope she does well at Sony. I hear they're developing a musical based on the life of a young Ghengis Khan...
What, and nobody's mentioned "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"?
"What, and nobody's mentioned "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"?"
No, because it's a horrible film. One of dw's first 6 feature cartoon flops.
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