paddington bear heads for hollywood

[themightybee]

According to Yahoo!News:

Paddington Bear, a teddy in a duffle coat who loves marmalade sandwiches and has impeccable manners, is the latest character from a children's book to head for Hollywood aiming at movie stardom.

Dear Hollywood - Don't screw the pooch on this, a-wipes! Paddington Bear was my childhood literary hero. (He was part of a trifecta of illustrated idols, along with Lyle Lyle the Crocodile and Madeline.) I'm cringing at the "live-action family comedy" description. A CGI'd Paddington makes me want to cry. I'm sad that two-dimensional animation is now seemingly defunct. Thanks a lot, Toy Story! (Kidding. I loves me some Toy Story.)

Comments

[newnonfiction.livejournal.com]

oh dear

[firthgal.livejournal.com]

Aww, I used to love the Paddignton cartoons! I believe they were more like clay animation though (if I'm remembering right). Well, I don't know, it looked alot like the Gumbi cartoons. It'll be weird seeing him Toy Story style.

[themightybee.livejournal.com]

I think Paddington himself was claymation, but the other characters were two-dimensional. It was a confection of multimedia!

Hey, do you know what's up with thehelms.org? It hasn't been working for the past few days. *sobs*

[firthgal.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!! That's where I get all my Ed pics from! Oh, I really, really hope it's just down for maintenance reasons and that it'll be back up soon. I'm not sure, but I think sporkythespaz runs that site, so s/he might have some info about it.

[lessaxf.livejournal.com]

2-D animation is coming back! No, really. It is. John Lasseter had a fit when he came on-board at Disney & found out that they'd shut down their traditional animation studios in favor of solely doing 3-D stuff, so he re-hired some animators and put them to work on a new project. I think "The Frog Princess" (or whatever they're calling the movie set in New Orleans now) is going to be the next movie done the "old-fashioned" way. So 2-D animation isn't really dead.

Can I just say that I'm actually really happy with the way "Uncle John" (as some Disney fans are referring to him) has been working with Disney feature animation? He yanked the concept for Toy Story 3, shelved some really bad ideas and tweaked some good ones to make them even better. "Uncle John" is saving animation as we've always known it - good stories, a lot of heart and semi-life-like drawing :)

Leave it to me to discuss animation-type stuff... But yes, I'd be disturbed to see Hollywood touch Paddington. I used to watch a show when I was younger that just had a narrator and some very basic animation of Paddington Bear, but it's just like the "updated" Winnie the Pooh. (Wasn't the 1960s version good enough? He was cute!!) Messing with a good thing always sucks.