A new TV ad for Walt Disney Animation Studio’s November film “Wreck-it Ralph” has hit the airwaves. It features popular actor Jane Lynch who plays Sergeant Calhoun in the film: In case you missed it, here’s the synopsis: Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved… Read More »New Wreck-it Ralph TV Ad
The marketing team for Disney Animation’s Wreck-it Ralph is starting to kick it into high gear. This TV spot titled “Game Changer” gives audiences more insight into the world inhabited by video game characters: Disney has also released four alternate posters featuring different video game… Read More »Wreck-it Ralph – New TV Ad and Posters
We are getting more details today on the soundtrack for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wreck-it Ralph. Also, as of today, it’s available for pre-order from Amazon.com. From the trailers we’ve seen so far, the movie is going to tap into the collective love of retro arcade games. These games themselves are tied to a very specific musical landscape, I can’t wait to hear how it all plays out.
Wreck-it Ralph follows the journey of an arcade-game bad buy who embarks on a quest to prove he’s really a good guy. Along the way he travels through wildly diverse arcade-game worlds, including the ’80s-era, 8-bit video-game world of Fix-It Felix, Jr., the ultra-modern first-person shooter game Hero’s Duty and the candy-coated cart-racing game Sugar Rush. Helping to differentiate these worlds from one another are unique cinematography, animation, effects and music. “Music is another way to set the stage and make these worlds completely different,” said producer Clark Spencer.
But not just any music. Filmmakers tapped diverse and unexpected artists to help tell the story. Composer Henry Jackman created the film’s score, which is complemented by original songs and music from Skrillex, AKB48, Owl City and Buckner & Garcia. Directed by Rich Moore, produced by Spencer and featuring the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch, “Wreck-It Ralph” crashes into theatres on Nov. 2, 2012. The film’s soundtrack from Walt Disney Records will be available Oct. 30, 2012.
A few days ago Disney animation released a new trailer for Wreck-it Ralph, today we get a new one-sheet poster. Just like in the trailer we have a number of cameos from other popular video games including: M. Bison, Q-Bert, Neff (the rhino from Altered… Read More »New Wreck-it Ralph Poster
A new trailer for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph has dropped. In it you see a bit more of the plot beyond the generic information we already knew. Ralph has left his game, but that has consequences. We also see more of the worlds in the games… Read More »New Wreck-It Ralph Trailer
John Frost wrote up a nice article a little while ago about the failed WDAS project “My Peoples” and how it was set to be animated in the Orlando animation department…until they closed the Orlando animation department. It never transferred over to CA, many Orlando animators left Disney all together, and after a ton of other set backs…the project was canned.
For those of you unfamiliar, the story was very short, it was about how three small kids and a ghost brought together a couple in the Appalachia area of the USA in the 1940’s. The thought process was taken from Walt’s head, for every big and grandiose film, you include a low-budget and simply sweet film to even things out (Bambi is to Tarzan and Dumbo is to My Peoples). After much deliberation and “fighting” between Barry Cook (the creator of the story and idea), Michael Eisner (the then CEO), and Thomas Schumacher (the then president of WDAS) over budget issues and such, the plan would be this: the couple would be done in hand-drawn animation while the rest of the characters were done, in the style of folk art, in CGI. It saved money and gave the film a distinct look. Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Charles Durning, and more had already signed on to voice for the film and they had also already begun to write the bluegrass music for the film (which was supposed to evoke that sense of classic Appalachia).
Back in 2010 we heard about Disney putting the brakes on production of the modern update of a Norwegian legend, The Snow Queen. But a few months ago work slowly began again on the project, this time with a new name – Frozen. Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel are set to voice the lead roles. Robert Lopez and Kristin Anderson Lopez will pen the music. You might recall their names from Broadway’s Avenue Q and Book of Morman, but Disney fans will know their work on the Finding Nemo Musical at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Disney recently confirmed that the story would be inspired by the beauty of Norway, even if not being specific about the location or time. But it makes me wonder, why don’t they commit to Norway as the setting. EPCOT would then have an excuse to upgrade the Norway pavilion which has long been without a sponsorship commitment.
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Three days and three new trailers for Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph. While still featuring Jane Lynch and Jack McBrayer as hosts, this one does not focus on any particular Olympic sport, but rather encourages you to “Get In The Games.” It also implies that playing video… Read More »Wreck-it Ralph – Get In The Game Trailer