Earlier this fall we got word from Pixar that they’d be taking a break from completing a film next year, moving The Good Dinosaur from May 2014 to November 25th, 2015. Co-director Bob Peterson was removed from the director’s chair, as a Pixar braintrust of John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Brave‘s Mark Andrews and original co-director, Peter Sohn, took the reigns for the time being, accounting for the delay.
Taking place in a future that imagines if the asteroids never destroyed dinosaurs, the film follows an Apatosaurus named Arlo and his family. They are farmers and they need to get rid of “bugs” on their land, but it’s revealed it’s actually human cavemen. We now have the first poster for the film, which gives us a close-up of our characters, with an unfortunate watermark. Check it out below from J Posters via Bleeding Cool, who also have a statement from Lasseter.
What if the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs missed Earth and dinosaurs kept living? It’s really a great story because they are very funny dinosaurs. They are kind of cartoony but they are dinosaurs, they are not walking around with clothes on or anything like that, they still are kind of dinosaurs. We focused on mostly the plant-eaters, not the carnivores… Their society becomes more of an agrarian society, meaning farmers. They become farmers.
It’s a very funny story about a certain way of life that a young dinosaur has trouble fitting into and he ends up going on this quest. He kind of messes up and he has to put everything right by going on this quest and on that quest he meets this our character that is an outcast from his society too and so the two of them form this bond and it becomes this unique kind of story… kind of hard to describe. It’s a very special, very emotional story but it’s so quirky and nutty. That’s really the hallmark of Bob Peterson’s and Peter Sohn’s talent. Bob Peterson is truly one of the funniest people I’ve met and it’s coming through with this story. Pixar does dinosaurs, but like anything we touch… it’s unlike any other dinosaur picture you’ve seen ‘cause it doesn’t fit in your typical [idea of] what you think dinosaurs are. It’s absolutely beautiful too.
What do you think of the first poster?