Brad Bird's long-delayed 1906 movie might see the light of day yet: as both a movie and a TV show. The project is an adaptation of James Dalessandro's novel about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol is Brad Bird's first live-action movie. Think about that for a second. In the film community he's easily one of the most exciting and respected directors out there but he's never released a movie with a flesh and blood person in it. It's fairly mind-boggling. Then you watch The Iron Giant,…
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It's been four years since we first heard that Incredibles director Brad Bird was set to make his live-action debut with 1906, based on James Dalessandro's novel about the historic San Francisco earthquake. Since then, however, progress on the film has been slow-going, to say the least. A year ago, it was rumored that the…
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News that Brad Bird might direct his first live-action film started to bubble up three years ago. The movie is 1906, an account of the San Francisco earthquake as recounted in James Dalessandro’s novel of the same name. It's been quite some time since we heard anything at all about the film. Last update from…
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Last week Brad Bird revealed that he was still trying to crack the screenplay for his live-action debut 1906, which seemed baffling to us. In March 2008, our spies told us that Pixar was busy building virtual scale models of a period-era San Francisco and that Warner Bros had put a hold on all of…
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We haven't heard much lately about Brad Bird's live-action debut, a big screen adaptation of James Dalessandro's novel 1906. Our friends at LatinoReview caught up with Bird at the premiere of Coraline, and was able to get an update. "We're looking at places to shoot it. The script I'm still working. it's a really hard…
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When it was announced that Brad Bird would be directing a live action adaptation of 1906, a co-production of Pixar and Warner Bros, many assumed that the Emeryville animation studio would be providing the visual effects. Well now Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull told attendees of the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference that Pixar will…
Read MoreAfter posting the Future of Pixar update, I received a lot of emails from people asking "What happened to Brad Bird's 1906?" or "What about the long rumored John Carter of Mars adaptation?" Well there are a couple answers, but the best one to lead with is that the Disney/Pixar press conference focused only on…
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/Film Reader PixarSpy sent over an interesting update on Brad Bird's live action feature debut adaptation of James Dalessandro's 1906. As you may already know, the film follows a young man who discovers a series of secrets and lies that left San Francisco highly vulnerable to the fires that engulfed the city in the aftermath…
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Brad Bird has officially signed on to make his live-action feature directorial debut in a co-production between Warner Bros and Disney/Pixar. Based on James Dalessandro's 2005 novel 1906, Bird is rewriting the original script penned by John Logan. The assumption is that Pixar will be providing the computer generated effects. Here is the official plot…
Read MoreAfter winning the Academy Award for best animated feature Ratatouille/The Incredibles director Brad Bird talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his next film, his first foray into live action, an adaptation of James Dalessandro's 1906, about the San Francisco Earthquake: "At the time, Chinatown was coexisting with the Barbary Coast, which was like the Wild…
Read MoreIt has been well known that The Incredibles director Brad Bird's next film is likely to be an adaptation of 1906. Based on the novel by James Dalessandro, which is a fictionalized account of the famous 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco. Bird, while promoting Ratatouille in the UK, spoke with Rotten Tomatoes about his future.…
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Brad Bird has revealed that his next film will be live action. The Academy Award winning director of The Incredibles and The Iron Giant has plans to make a live-action feature film. Our sources say it could be the long rumored 1906. Based on the novel by James Dalessandro, which is a fictionalized account of…
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