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…
Read More
/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…
Read More
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 More
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…
Read More