Sir Spirograph has reported in with a report on the state of WARNER FEATURE ANIMATION, and boy, there sure does seem to be a lot of projects on the cauldron! Personally I'm dying to see some stuff from IRON GIANT (hint hint Sir Spirograph!!!) I'm told it's gonna be in wide wide screen!!! But there's a lot of interest here so check it out!!!
I smell a bit of a rat on this animated Willie Wonka info coming out of Warner Bros. I've been working here at Warner's Animation for a while now, and while I can't say I am privy to everything going on here, I do know that there has never a hint of a wiff of a mention of any impending Willie Wonka movie.
Here are the films the development people do acknowledge (and I keep my ears to the ground about what they were working on):
There is Osmosis Jones, The Zoo (forever stuck on the edge of being greenlighted), New Gods (on again, off again, now apparently on again), Aquaman (off now that New Gods is again a possibility), Timber (Ted and Jane's pet project -- hopefully this will be forgotten about), Nanobots (robots so small they're microscopic), The Jester (might've flown if Jim Carrey or Will Smith or Eddie Murphy had been interested, but they weren't), Tusk (an Ice Age story, doubtless shelved since Bruce Morris is now at DreamWorks), The Iguana Brothers (a lizard road picture?!?), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (despite reports out of Geena Davis and Rennie Harlan's production company, it'll never go forward), The Santa Claus Brothers (way on the back burner), Bluebeard (now long forgotten), HooDoo (my favorite -- a Carribean musical pirate movie!), Demons of the Deep (based on a Japanese fable), an unnamed East Indian ghost story, and some Gahan Wilson-inspired projects. But no Wonka, unless this has come about in the last few weeks and I haven't been paying attention, or if somehow someone at WBFA could keep a secret (Ha!). So view these reports with proper skepticism.
