October 2nd, 2007
Pixar's next movie: Wall-E
Pixar has posted a trailer for their next movie, Wall-E, which is slated to hit theaters in 27 June 2008. The teaser trailer was released at 8pm ET last night. Kottke.org asks “Does it make sense even if you don’t speak French?”
Yes, because the movie isn’t going to have any dialogue. Says director Andrew Stanton: “I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie”.
Kottke also outs a viral Web site for the film BuynLarge.com:
Pixar has also launched a promotional web site for the film. The site was formerly just a placeholder but is now faux-corporate brochureware for Buy n Large, maker of the Wall-E robot. The site is full of ridiculous corporate-speak like “by visiting the Buy n Large web site you instantaneously relinquish all claims against the Buy n Large corporation and any of its vendors or strategic partners.” Check out the Nanc-E under Robotics/Robot Models for a chuckle.
According to IMDB the plot outline is: The year is 2700. WALL*E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. Some trivia:
The teaser trailer contains part of Michael Kamen’s score for Brazil (1985). Michael Kamen was going to score another Pixar film, The Incredibles (2004), but died before he could.
Curiously, the official Wall-E Web site and the BuynLarge.com site don’t work in Flock (a Firefox derivative) but work fine in Firefox and (obviously) Safari.
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Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here or to view Jason's full profile click here.
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