From Iron Man to early man, Jon Favreau’s next directorial project is a fantastic leap in subject matter comparable to the 2001 bone toss. Fav tells MTV that he’s revving up to start on Neanderthals, an ambitious-sounding motion-capture animated film parked at Sony Pictures that will not borrow its visual cues from Robert Zemeckis’ lifelike mo-cap flicks Beowulf and The Polar Express.
“Mo-cap is a misleading term because the animation won’t resemble the animation of ‘Polar Express’ or ‘Monster House.’ That was very lifelike,” he asserted. “This will be comedic and stylized. The animation will appear more like a traditional animated [...]