The Peanuts Movie: A Blue Sky Production

Charlie Bown was intended to have very close cut fair hair, in a style that was fairly common for little boys in the early 50's. He did however once make the comment, on winning a year's free haircuts in a motocross event in one of the specials, that not only was his father a barber but he didn't have that much hair to cut.

Yeah, it wouldn't really show up well on comics or 2D animation. They could have tried with this one but I don't think they either:

• a: Don't know that Chuck basically has a buzz cut

• b: Don't wanna change his design to the point where fans who think he's bald will complain

By "That song from the Bug's Life trailer" do you mean Baba O'Reilly (Teenage Wasteland) by The Who? It's pretty well known, so I doubt it having been used to promote A Bug's Life has anything to do with it.

edited 20th Jun '15 10:26:25 AM by Robbery

I got an idea. Let's think of modern animated film cliches that will most likely be avoided in this movie since the Shultz family kept a close eye on it.

Fart jokes.

I do find it kinda weird that they used "Baba O'Reilly" in the trailer. I mean, the music sounds cool, but the song thematically has nothing to do with anything in the Peanuts properties.

Don't most animated movies nowadays feature pop songs that are in the trailer and not in the actual movie?

I call that song "Trailer Song #6" anyway.

I can think of one more thing that this film will definitely avoid from other modern animated films thanks to the Shultz family.

Celebrity Voice Actors are a thing in Hollywood animation and Blue Sky probably rivals Dreamworks with how many big names they are able to stuff into their films. So to have a cast that consists of unknown kids (except maybe Francesca Capaldi, who plays the youngest sister on Dog With A Blog) and the recordings of Bill Melendez is impressive for them.

edited 1st Jul '15 8:06:06 PM by DS9guy

Since I'm gonna be gone for the weekend, here is my happy 4th of July to all my fellow Peanuts fans.

(Funny thing is, I'm actually bringing that movie with me on my vacation, along with Snoopy, Come Home. My theme for 4th of July movies this year is "before 2000", so I'm bringing stuff like unaltered Star Wars, Classic Disney, Disney Renaissance, Tim Burton's Batman, Superman 1978, Indiana Jones, ET, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, T2, the first 3 Pixar movies, Muppet Movies, and some others)

The director and art director talked about the movie at Annecy. The article goes into how they replicated the look of the comic strip.

Does anyone think that this movie will be actually be a hit box office-wise?

edited 7th Jul '15 11:03:52 AM by powerpuffbats

Well, last I checked, it's coming to theaters the same day as Spectre so...

...eh?

Saw this on youtube

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I like how they're using the comic strips for Woodstock as keyframes for animation. Makes me think we're in good hands.

edited 28th Aug '15 8:38:40 AM by Mattonymy

Some information regarding the transition of how they made such a flat 2D design of the Peanuts into 3D, as well as an in-depth look at six scenes from the film.

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Looks like the film is also going to include a lot of Vince Guaraldi as well.

edited 29th Aug '15 11:51:46 PM by Mattonymy

I saw this post and thought "what". Then I watched the trailer and it turns out they totally did. I now have to agree.

It does SEEM like we're in good hands. they went through a lot of trouble to recreate the look of the strips in painstaking detail. the work paid off, i think, it doesn't really look like any other 3d animated film i've seen. it DOES look like peanuts though.

the only thing i'm not really a fan of is BAMBOOOOOLEIIIOOOOOO playing when snoopy dances. it's too modern and quite jarring. outside of that the trailer's aces.

edited 30th Aug '15 12:12:56 AM by wehrmacht

That was probably the marketing guys thinking, "Dur, people don't know nothing about no Peanut people. Let's throw some salsa music because gag. Dur."

But hey, maybe we should ask ourselves, if this is coming the same year as the new James Bond movie, are you guys gonna spend your money on this movie first or on Spectre?

This one, not a big Bond fan.

Though I think we know Force Awakens will be the biggest movie this year.

Yeah, I don't hate Bond, but Peanuts has been in my life a lot longer than Bond ever has.

So yeah, expect me to say I spent money on Charlie Brown first.

One other thing: This will become Blue Sky's best movie yet, critically speaking.

I can concur that this might be Blue Sky's best movie.

That's a very awkward comparison to make, considering that both films are made with two very different audiences in mind. On the one hand, you have a franchise with over 60 years of publication history, with mass appeal to both children and adults, whose reboot has been carefully created to appease fans of all generations. And the other is James Bond.

Regardless, Peanuts is probably my second most anticipated film this fall/winter, with Star Wars in lead and Crimson Red / The Good Dinosaur in tow.

edited 30th Aug '15 9:19:22 AM by Mattonymy

Yeah, I'd say that I'm looking forward to this movie the most out of the ones coming out this November.

"Crimson Red"? Do you mean Crimson Peak?

Peak, Red, it's all the same as long as it's done by Guillermo Del Toro.

This is probably the most ambitiously unique animation style I've seen since The Lego Movie.

edited 18th Sep '15 7:16:04 PM by Mattonymy