It is being reported that as a follow-up to what has now been deemed his live-action bomb John Carter, Andrew Stanton will be going back to animation and directing a sequel to Finding Nemo. Stanton has proven in the past to be gold for the genre, with the first Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Both were a box office success and brought in an Academy Award. However, I'm not sure that I like the idea of Finding Nemo getting in to the sequel game. It was a brilliant movie with a perfect story and ending. I like leaving it at that. However, Pixar did prove with the Toy Story franchise that they would hold out for a great concept before proceeding with a sequel. So perhaps it will be worth the wait. If the movie goes in to production now, it is likely it will not be released until 2018, which will give us a lot of time to decide if we like this concept…or not.
When you think of Wes Anderson movies, you usually think of a staple of known actors. It is likely in any of his films you will find Bill Murray, one of the Wilson Brothers, Jason Schwartzman and some of the best actors working in film right now. He will now be broadening that spectrum even farther as he will be collaborating with Johnny Depp for the first time on The Grand Budapest Hotel. Still no word on the plot of the film beyond a "European story", but with the creative stride Anderson hit recently with Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr. Fox, this is one to look forward to. It will also be interesting to see if Depp will bring a little bit of a broader appeal to an Anderson flick.
Over the weekend at Comic-Con it was revealed that the Captain America sequel now has a title, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. While the plot details are officially being kept under raps, fans of the comic book might assume that this alludes to the storyline with Captain America's Bucky Barnes who becomes a brainwashed assassin known as the Winter Solider. Sebastian Stan, who played the role in the first film, is presumed to return. Then today it has been reported that Anthony Mackie is in talks with Marvel studios to presumably play the Falcon in this film. The character who was one of the first African American superheroes is also known as Sam Wilson. Oftentimes he was Captain America's partner, who derives his powers from a suit that allows him to fly while enhancing his strength and communication with birds. Mackie is best known for his brilliant turn as a solider in the war film The Hurt Locker but is also in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the upcoming Gangster Squad.
Thor 2 also now has an official name and that is Thor: The Dark World. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that means in terms of the story. Anybody have any insight?
On the Thor 2 and Captain America tip I did just post a long speculation piece on Marvels Phase 2, Looking at the 9 realms Dark World sounds like Niflhel it is the realm of ice and mist where the wicked dead are cast. Nothing popped up on ComicVine when I searched for it though my knowledge of Thor comics isn't the greatest.
Captain America 2 sounds promising really wish they gave Sebastian Stann more to do in Cap 1. Hopefully we get more HYDRA or possibly AIM.
Finding Nemo dosen't need a sequel but maybe thats how Pixar will do it going forward one franchise and a new IP.
Depp doing a Wes Anderson film sounds like we might actually get "restrained" Depp instead of bonkers Depp but it would't surprise me if Depp tries to up his levels of weird.
I'm sure Tim Burton will find some way to get involved if Depp is in it.
@MrMazz said:
that would be cool. I was wondering what "The Dark World" would be.
I don't know why people aren't excited for a new FINDING NEMO movie. Sure, JOHN CARTER wasn't great, but Andrew Stanton did an awesome job on WALL-E and the original and Pixar still has a pretty good track record (though I would argue BRAVE could be considered their weakest yet).
In other news I just found out the stoner turtle in Finding Nemo was the voice of Emperor Zurg. You learn something new everyday here at Screened