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Brad Bird (who wrote and directed Ratatouille) has an awesomely bizarre idea. He wants to do a a multipart, billion-dollar saga called Filmtasia, with all genres rolled into one: "The studios could market the various parts as sequels. The first Filmtasia would be a historical drama, the next part a musical, the next sci-fi, part four a Western — you get the idea." Actually, we don't. But that won't stop us from wondering like hell what the scifi "sequel" would look like. [Variety]
Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See
8:40 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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It sounds like you'd have a common theme that ties all the films together. And maybe not even in the literary sense of "theme". Think about the MacGuffin driven Heavy Metal. While the genres of the vignettes were all similar, there was the same idea of very disparate stories tied together by a common piece.
You could do a great story like that- in the ancient world, we meet a young shaman who must go on a vision quest to save his people and interact with the common thread (fantasy); the same thread shows up during the Revolutionary War and takes control of a division of Hessians that are wreaking havoc on the countryside, etc.
The musical could be a self-aware story-in-a-story or something like "Once More, With Feeling". And so on.
I could see this working, and it'd be a great exercise in world-building storytelling.
Brad Bird should get to do whatever the hell he wants, however the hell he wants to do it and whenever the hell he's ready.
meh, and then they say this movie is probably not going to happen...
I thought it sounded like a great Idea .
thank you now i can pitch this idea to geneon entertainment of japan.-blurey
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