Leading up to The Good Dinosaur’s delay announcement, Pixar hadn’t released nearly any promotional material. Now a poster for the film has surfaced and puts the film’s two stars front and center.
Much of The Good Dinosaur’s promotional material was probably deep in the works before the studio hit the breaks and announced the movie had been pushed from May 2014 to November 2015 for development purposes. It was most likely for that reason this poster – in which we see lead characters Arlo (the dinosaur) and Spot (the kid) – came online.
The Good Dinosaur poster is pretty simple and some have argued that it doesn’t live up to the quality one would expect from Pixar. However, it’s important to remember that this was not an official release and with the film’s extra development time will surely come retooling of its marketing.
In the story, an asteroid that was supposed to hit earth and make dinosaurs go extinct never arrives, so the ancient creatures live long enough to begin co-existing with humans. Arlo finds a boy who he nicknames Spot, and their relationship is the center of the story. Concept art for the movie was released this past August at Disney’s D23 Expo showing the two characters playing together.
The Good Dinosaur will now hit theaters November 25, 2015. Director Bob Peterson left the project in August due to story problems that will now be handled by several Pixar power players including John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), and Mark Andrews (Brave) until a new director is named.
Reads the film’s synopsis, “The Good Dinosaur asks the generations-old question: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The film is a humorous and exciting original story about Arlo, a lively 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart. After a traumatic event rattles Arlo’s tranquil community, he sets out on a quest to restore peace, gaining an unlikely companion along the way—a young human boy named Spot.”
Also in the pipeline from Pixar is Peter Docter’s original movie Inside Out in June 2015, and the Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory on June 17, 2016.
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