The first new project announcement from Walt Disney Animation Studios to be announced at D23 this weekend is Zootopia, an animated feature set in an animal world. More specifically, it is a “buddy action comedy set in a world where humans never existed.”
The film will be released in 2016, and you can get many more details below.
Tangled director Byron Howard will direct the film from a script by Jared Bush. They’ve been working for the last year and a half on the project, spurred in in part by a love of the Disney Robin Hood feature. Howard wanted to do a film with animals in clothing. They hope to continue “Disney's amazing legacy of animal-based animated films.”
Despite that seed idea, there’s the intent to create a realistic world — during the presentation the filmmakers said “if you squint at anything in the world of Zootopia, it will look like a natural real world habitat.”
There’s also the promise of a unique vision. We’ve seen movies featuring animals in the natural world, and in the human world, but we’ve never seen animals in a modern world designed by animals. What would animals do differently than humans would? So the filmmakers talked to experts, from anthropologists to safari guides to imagineers as they began to design an animal civilization which is “distinctly animal.”
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