"EPIC" IS REALLY EPIC
If you ask me, possibly the best animated movie of the year will be deeply enchanting and magically colourful adventure titled EPIC which is ready to hit the big screens around the world from May 24th! Based on William Joyce's children book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs" the fantasy adventure is being directed by legendary Chris Wedge, the director of brilliant animated films such as ICE AGE and ROBOTS! The story of EPIC revolves around a young girl named Mary Katherine who lives in a cabin in the woods with her father and dog. Her father, Professor Bomba, has long studied a group of warriors who live in the forest and protect it as guardians of good. He often will go into the forest and survey them. One day, the professor does not return from a hike in the forest, so Mary Katharine sets out to look for him. Hours later, she comes upon a group of glowing, falling leaves. Catching one of them, she is suddenly shrunken down. In her minuscule state, she discovers the group of warriors Prof. Bomba has studied, who are known as the Leafmen. Soon she is forced to assist them in a war against forces of evil known as the Boggans and their villainous leader Mandrake, while trying to find out how to return home. In the battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and evil the teenage girl must help a team of fun and whimsical characters to save their world, which also saves the real world!
The film has a rather stellar cast including voices from Amanda Seyfried
(as Mary Katherine Professor Bomba's daughter), Josh Hutcherson as Nod,
a rookie Leafmen warrior, Colin Farrell as Ronin, a seasoned Leafmen
warrior, r'n'b diva Beyoncé Knowles as Queen Tara, the Mother Nature-like queen of
the forest, Christoph Waltz as Mandrake, the leader of the Boggans, Aziz
Ansari as Mub, a slug, pop star Pitbull as Bufo, comedian Jason
Sudeikis as Professor Bomba, Mary Katherine's father, rock legend Steven
Tyler as Nim Galuu, and Chris O'Dowd as Grub, a snail! At one point of
the production, Chris Wedge wanted to escape delays and take EPIC from
Fox to Pixar,
but in the end Fox decided to give the film its full support. The film has a scale of STAR WARS and AVATAR in characters, visuals and world building! Danny Elfman from OZ GREAT AND POWERFUL, ALICE IN WONDERLAND and MEN IN BLACK is composing the music!
but in the end Fox decided to give the film its full support. The film has a scale of STAR WARS and AVATAR in characters, visuals and world building! Danny Elfman from OZ GREAT AND POWERFUL, ALICE IN WONDERLAND and MEN IN BLACK is composing the music!
DISNEY'S "FROZEN"
Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen" FROZEN will be Walt Disney's 53rd animated feature film in their classics series. Scheduled for November this year, the film will feature the voices of Kristen Bell as Anna and Idina Menzel as Elsa, the Snow Queen, in speaking as well as singing roles! When Anna (Kristen Bell) is cursed by her estranged sister, the cold-hearted Snow Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel), Anna’s only hope of reversing the curse is to survive a perilous but thrilling journey across an icy and unforgiving landscape. Joined by a rugged, thrill-seeking outdoorsman Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), his one-antlered reindeer and a hapless snowman, Anna must race againsttime, conquer the elements and battle an army of frozen sinister warriors if she ever hopes to melt her frozen heart.
DID YOU KNOW?
The work on FROZEN has lasted on and off for more than ten years since Disney has shelved it a couple of times since 2002. Chris Buck, who helmed SURFS UP and TARZAN is co-directing with WRECK IT RALPH's Jennifer Lee. The music will be scored by Christophe Beck who made music for THE MUPPETS and PERCY JACKSON THE LIGHTNING THIEF.
The work on FROZEN has lasted on and off for more than ten years since Disney has shelved it a couple of times since 2002. Chris Buck, who helmed SURFS UP and TARZAN is co-directing with WRECK IT RALPH's Jennifer Lee. The music will be scored by Christophe Beck who made music for THE MUPPETS and PERCY JACKSON THE LIGHTNING THIEF.
Epic looks good! Save the forest!
ReplyDeletesuch an enchanting film that one will be
DeleteLooking forward to these movies Dezzy ~ My daughter will enjoy them, like me ~
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend ~
family fun, Grace :)
DeleteIts incredible what hi-tech digital has done to animated film - the quality is simply amazing. I was blown away with 'The Guardians' - the owls in the bushfire sequence was a breathtaking technical achievement but I do think at times that the story has definitely come second. Hope this one is more like 'Brave' - where both the animation and the story are superb.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Doc
BRAVE was such a beautiful film both in the visual department (outstandingly vivid) and storywise! And it also had a nice message. I think EPIC will be in the vein of BRAVE and HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON in deep quality.
DeleteI don't think I've heard of the snow queen fairy tale.
ReplyDeleteshocking
DeleteA lot of interesting things coming of Disney. Not sure if any of these will be the big budget hits that Disney is looking for though, they seem kind of generic.
ReplyDeleteI don't see anything generic in EPIC, Damien
DeleteEpic great movie another movie for Dad and daughter ;)
ReplyDeleteI bet your daughter will enjoy it, Vincent, and so will you :)
DeleteEpic looks Epic! Love the slugs.
ReplyDeletethose slugs are cool, aren't they? :)
DeleteSo much more beautiful than the ones I got to see in the 1970s... like Bambi. :(
ReplyDeleteoh, Blue, me wasn't even born that far in the past :PPP
DeleteSorry, but while these look cute, I'll not be spending any of my hard-earned money on them. my bucks are going for the great stuff like Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Evil Dead. I got my priorities, ;)
ReplyDeletepffft.... some people pay for watching dead people, some for watching Elves and cute animals.....
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