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. |
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Pigs mixes
the classic story with a twist: Once upon a time three pigs built three
houses, out of straw, sticks, and bricks. Along came a wolf, who huffed
and puffed... So, you think you know the rest? Think again. With David
Wiesner at the helm, it's never safe to assume too much. When the wolf
approaches the first house, for example, and blows it in, he somehow manages
to blow the pig right out of the story frame. The text continues on schedule--'...and
ate the pig up'--but the perplexed expression on the wolf's face as he
looks in vain for his ham dinner is priceless. One by one, the pigs exit
the fairy tale's border and set off on an adventure of their own. Folding
a page of their own story into a paper airplane, the pigs fly off to visit
other storybooks, rescuing about-to-be-slain dragons and luring the cat
and the fiddle out of their nursery rhyme.
Variety reported
on May 8, 2002 that in its last days as a subsidiary of Artists Management
Group, the Renaissance literary agency has optioned David Wiesner's bestselling
kids' tome, The Three Pigs, to Disney Feature Animation.
The Hollywood
Reporter announced on August 9, 2002 that the team of Ron Friedman and
Steve Bencich had signed a writing deal with the Disney's feature animation
division that encompasses both production and development services for
the studio. One of their first assignments would be to develop David Weisner's
best-selling children's book The Three Pigs.
An insider reported
on August 20, 2003 that Disney was in negotiation with Michael Keaton and
Beetlejuice
co-star Geena Davis to voice the Big Bad Wolf and his wife, respectively.
The Mouse House was also reportedly in talks with child actors Scott Terra,
Angus T. Jones and Tyler Hoechlin to voice the three pigs; as well as Alex
D. Linz and Josh Peck to voice two of their three hog cousins.
It was reported
a day later that child actor Angus T. Jones was no longer in talks with
Disney, and might be replaced with one of two possibilities: Jungle
Book 2's Haley Joel Osment or 39-year-old comedian Wanda Sykes.