Published 2/11/2009
by Tara Bennett
at SCI FI Wire
Pixar has been touring the country, screening the first 46 minutes of Up , its next full-length computer-animated film, more than three and a half months before its theatrical release date, and SCI FI Wire was there during presentations at New York Comic Con last weekend and at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, Calif., on Tuesday.
Arguably one of the hardest sell concepts for a Pixar film, Up tells the story of 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), who sets out on the adventure he always intended to take with his late wife, Ellie. Tying thousands of helium balloons to his house, he lifts off to find Paradise Falls in South America. Only he's unaware that he's brought along a co-adventurer in the form of 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer Scout Russell (Jordan Nagai).
Director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera hosted the screenings in New York and confirmed that the film was being readied to be scored by Oscar-nominated composer, and frequent Pixar collaborator, Michael Giacchino ( ...
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