Haven’t seen any threads on the board about the upcoming Disney film Tomorrowland. It looks pretty darned cool!
I’m not sure about Clooney - it doesn’t really look like a role I would’ve thought of him for. It’s also got Hugh Laurie, and was directed by Brad Bird (the Iron Giant, the Incredibles, Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol).
It does look cool. Too bad it’ll all be undermined by that hack writer David Lindelof.
*Damon, I mean (or Demon)
I’m there - I wasn’t disappointed by the last theme park attraction Disney turned into a movie (wait, I’m not sure if Haunted Mansion or Pirate of the Caribbean came first. I mean Pirates, obviously) and Raygun Gothic/Googie is my jam.
Yay! for a return to the paleofuture visions of the Popular Mechanics of my youth. Meet The Robinsons, Jimmy Neutron, The Incredibles, even the Aeon Flux movie all have this styling to some degree, and I love it - much better than everything being grimdark, wet, grey and dirty.
Alien, Mad Max and Blade Runner, so much to answer for 
It’s not clear that this movie is based on the Disney attraction Tomorrowland. It was originally titled 1952 and only retitled after it was well into development. Also, the original Pirates of the Caribbean was only loosely based on that attraction. It had more to do with a video game originally. That would take a while to explain. It’s been discussed on the SDMB before.
I am aware of all this. It was a throwaway, humorous remark.
Well, that and Tim Powers directly…
A few points:
It looks pretty good by the trailer.
Whether or not it was intended to connect to the Disney space originally it is now. You’re produced by Disney and you get named ‘Tomorrowland’? You’re attached no matter what. Disney wouldn’t allow that to happen without forethought and planning.
Anyone else think there’s a quid pro quo here? Bird gets to do this one, then agrees to do Incredibles 2?
Would he need to be bribed to do I2? Has he been on record as being against a sequel?
Plus, I think, at this point, Bird could probably get to do any movie he personally wanted to - he’s had several critical and monetary successes, and the Pixar gang are now the creative directorship at Disney, aren’t they?
Funny, I was thinking it’s good to see that the current anti-wheat trend won’t wipe out the amber waves of grain.
MrDibble writes:
> Well, that and Tim Powers directly…
And I mention that in the thread where we discussed this.
In the far future of 2015, message boards have “Quote” functions. Also the ability to link to previous threads.
Well darn it, I’d been looking forward to this, based on the trailers. 
So far we’ve had:
Tower of Terror (1997)
Mission to Mars (2000)
The Country Bears (2002)
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
One hit and four misses. If you count the Pirates sequels, one hit and seven misses.
So the odds for Tomorrowland are not good.
Mission to Mars was based on a Disney ride?
Tomorrowland isn’t even a ride, it’s a section of various Disney parks. So I guess the movie could be about standing in line with your kids in the Florida sun.
I would generally think this to be true … but I was surprised in this case because the hot new franchise on Disney Jr. is an animated show called Miles from Tomorrowland. I found it odd, I guess, for Disney to have had two productions in the pipeline with such similar names. In fact, when I first heard there was a new Disney movie called Tomorrowland, I assumed it was an animated film set in the same world as the TV show.
I got a pretty heavy Ayn Rand vibe from The Incredibles, and this line from the Tomorrowland trailer gives me pause: “What you saw was a place where the best and brightest people in the world came together to actually change it.”
Hmm.
Maybe that’s how he keeps getting work: people can’t retain a memory of his name.
See post #36 of this thread for my theory about the Pirates of the Caribbean movies: