The 'Tomorrowland' director will not follow the superhero trend because the 'turf right now is very trodden over.'
- Apr 20, 2015
AceShowbiz - Brad Bird talks about his next project "The Incredibles 2" while doing a press tour for his new movie "Tomorrowland". Instead of revealing the direction he's going to take, the director discusses the route he will make sure to avoid in the sequel to 2004's Pixar animation.
"Well, I worry if you comment too much on other movies then you might just be coasting off their good will," he said. "There was a very lazy trend in comedy where somebody would start singing the theme song from 'The Flintstones' and you're supposed to dig on it just because you recognise it. So I don't like that. I think that movies ought to work in and of themselves."
Speaking to LittleWhiteLies for its latest issue which is on sale May 7, the director added, "However ... I would say that the superhero movie turf right now is very trodden over - it's kind of like a field that's had too many games on it, and it's just dried up dirt at this point."
"I think that the greatest special effect is caring about a character. A lot of movies seem to forget that, and they bring out a lot of fireballs and then wonder why the fireballs don't have that much impact, no matter how loud and how big they are. But the truth is that the fireball isn't that exciting unless you care about the person running from it."
The original movie centered on a family of superheroes with Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Spencer Fox, and Sarah Vowell among the voice cast. It's unclear if any of them will return for the sequel, but Samuel L. Jackson who voiced Frozone in the first film is expected to reprise his role in the second one.
