Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Popeye (2013) (Animatic) VO

samedi 13 avril 2024

Popeye (2013) (Animatic) VO

Réalisé par : Genndy Tartakovsky
Produit par : Sony
Adapté de la BD homonyme
Année : 2013
Pays : USA
Durée : 87 mn
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Version animatique du film "Popeye" de Genndy Tartakovsky, projet rejeté par Sony.

Interview de G Tartakowsky au sujet de ce projet (en Anglais)

Basically, we did a screening, and it was great. Internally, everyone was super happy with it. I think it was also exactly what King Features wanted. We had a great reaction.

But this was also during the culmination of the Sony hack, and I could feel that something was going to happen soon. So after the screening, I didn’t get an answer from them, which was weird because everybody was so positive. Usually, we meet and talk and get notes. But they had a meeting on their own, and that was it. I just got a phone call afterward telling me how great it was, which always makes me suspicious. If they just call to tell you it’s great, there’s something going on, because they didn’t offer any notes. Later on, I personally went to see [then Sony Pictures Entertainment executive] Amy Pascal , and said, “Look, I’m a big boy. I can take it. I just need some information.” And she said, “Look Genndy, we love you, but we just don’t like Popeye.”

And that was the core. I think they’re still developing Popeye, trying to find a way to make it, but just not the way I was making it, which I think was very sincere and respectful to the way Popeye was.

When asked about that approach to the Popeye character, Tartakovsky excitedly explained the look and feel of his version:

Not only were those characters really well animated, they were animated really funny. Which is an even harder thing to do, to elicit laughs just from movement. But that’s why I’m in this industry; it’s what I love. Popeye had that in spades; the way those characters moved was really funny. I was so looking forward to it. That little test we did was just a scratch of what we had planned.