As AV turns 15, let's take a look back at the site we descended from. Below you can explore the database Olivier compiled at Animated Movies during its existence, as it last appeared online in October 2003.
| Animated Movies was launched by Olivier Mouroux in 1999. In addition to a daily news report, he also created a database of information about past, current, and upcoming films. In 2003, he took a job in the industry and had to give up his work on the site. Several fans of Animated Movies decided to take on the task of keeping the news portion of his site going, and founded what is now Animated Views. As AV turns 15, let's take a look back at the site we descended from. Below you can explore the database Olivier compiled at Animated Movies during its existence, as it last appeared online in October 2003. |
Written by: Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff
Release Date: 2006 (rumored)
Master P... Adam Sandler
Jackie Chan (rumored)
Kung Fu Panda
is about a gang of snow leopard bandits that come down from the highlands
to invade a bamboo jungle. In response, the jungle animals must search
for a prophesied warrior to defend them. They find their hero in a lazy,
underachieving panda who they must train to become the ultimate kung fu
master.
The Hollywood
Reporter revealed on May 31, 2002 that DreamWorks Pictures had picked up
Master
P: Kung Fu Panda for a mid-six figures from writers Cyrus Voris and
Ethan Reiff, based on an original pitch. "This is one of the best and funniest
pitches we've heard," DreamWorks SKG co-principal Jeffrey Katzenberg said.
"We've been looking for a story set in China with all of the amazing animals
that live in that world -- specifically pandas."
The press announced
that Kung Fu Panda was being developed into a fully animated,
computer-generated feature to be produced at Pacific
Data Images. However, a PDI representative revealed in June 2002 that
"the press reports caught all of us here by surprise. It's very possible
that Kung Fu Panda will be developed here, but it's not on our schedule
at this time. We're just about to start a Shrek 3D short film for
Universal Studios, so that's the priority right now."
The project will
be overseen by DreamWorks creative executive Michael Lachance for the studio's
animation chief, Ann Daly. Screenwriters Voris and Reiff penned the Chow
Yun-Fat vehicle Bullet Proof Monk for MGM, as well as Universal's
Demon
Knight and Men of War, starring Dolph Lundgren.
It was revealed
on April 10, 2003 that Adam Sandler was closed to signing as the voice
of a lazy zoo-panda who has to learn the ancient art of kung fu in Master
P : The Kung-Fu Panda. The animated film was then reportedly "on the
fast track at DreamWorks, which means we can expect it in 2006."
An insider reported
on August 20, 203 that movie legend Jackie Chan had signed on to the Adam
Sandler-starring animated film, Master P:
Kung Fu Panda.