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EXCLUSIVE: Albert Brooks has closed a fat deal to reprise the voice Marlin in Finding Nemo 2 for Disney‘s Pixar. The sequel has been long in the works; Deadline told you last July that the studio got the original’s helmer Andrew Stanton back in the fold 
(I’d heard that the studio will also give him another live-action shot after his disastrous live-action debut on John Carter), and Ellen DeGeneres came back shortly after. It took much longer to hook Brooks, who continued his renaissance as an actor in the Judd Apatow-directed This Is 40, following his turn as bad-ass Bernie Rose in Drive.
Brooks is also working on another novel, this coming after his first, Twenty Thirty: The Real Story Of What Happened To America, became a bestseller. It’s unclear though when he will next write and direct another one of those personal comedy vehicles for himself he used to do, like The Muse and Lost In America. He’s repped by WME and manager Herb Nanas.
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Best part of this story? “Brooks is also working on another novel”
Worst part of this story: This all but practically guarantees that this will take place after Finding Nemo which would ruin the fabric of the first in favor of an extra 1 billion dollars worldwide.
Where are the next Ratatouille and Wall-E? The new ideas? Way to ruin Pixar Disney.
You mean like Rise of the Guardians? LOL. Nothing wrong with making a sequel…if we get to Finding Nemo 5, then you might have a point.
Um, so Toy Story II and III sucked in your opinion, eh? Buckle up buttercup, I’m in for 2-10 of Finding Nemo! You can go watch drek like Rise of the Guardians and Hotel Transylvania!
What do Rise of the Guardians and Hotel Transylvania have in common, exactly? One’s an ambitious movie that lost money, and the other’s the exact opposite.
Ratatouille sucked so hard. Meet the Robinsons should have won.
Love him. He was the best part of the first Nemo so I would imagine whatever they have in mind it would be hard not to bring him back.
I still don’t think Finding Nemo 2 needs to happen. It ended perfectly and began with as much information we needed to know. Doing a sequel would ruin the fabric that the ending of Finding Nemo gave. Doing a prequel would be redundant because we saw how Marlin became overprotective in the beginning of the first finding nemo. It’s just a safe get out of jail card for Stanton. Monsters University also doesn’t look like it will be as good as the first. (Less emotion due to lack of Boo)
Great news. One of the best ever. Loving his recent work!
John Carter was a great film that was poorly marketed.
When I asked a friend, whom had never seen it, what he thought it was about, they stated: “A movie kind of like Clash of the Titans; alien battles and whatnot.”
I shook my head, because I, too, thought that’s what it was going to be… then I saw it in theaters and was shocked. Had they properly marketed the film being based off of a novel and even threw the whole “space/time travel” deal into the mix, they might have had better numbers.
Carter was awesome. I’m not a scifi fan and I though it was just another predisposed marketing failure like Home on the Range.
John Carter was a great!
Disney’s marketing sucked big time.
Hope Andrew Stanton can make part 2 and 3 with Disney or with a other Studio.
I only can say see John Carter on DVD or BluRay.
Hi Herb it’s Albert. Albert Brooks. Your client. That’s right have you seen the news on Deadline Hollywood? What news!?! My big return for a lot of money in Finding Nemo 2. No Herb not the blizzard they named Nemo this is the Pixar movie sequel about the funny fishies. That’s right with Ellen DeGeneres and yours truly doing the voices. Yes it’s wonderful news. I’m very happy and excited to be doing this again.
Listen Herb remember that best selling novel I wrote, 2030, about the future and how funny it will be? That’s right. When will you get me a deal to turn it into a movie? Of course I’ll write the screenplay and star in it and direct it. Can you call some of the studio presidents today? Tell them to look at Deadline Hollywood so they know I’m back in action and ready to work. Thanks Herb. Yes it’s Albert. Albert Brooks, your number one client. Bye Herb.
You put a lot of effort into mocking someone who’s done good work, and just got himself a good deal. Why would you want to do that? What have you provided to yourself, or to anyone else?
And in addition, you’re not funny at all, Al.
Nemo 2 why? Where’s the incredibles 2. Come on guys. More of a story there.
NEMO 2:FIND HARDER
FINDING NEM2.0
TOY DORY
JOHN DORY CARTER
NE MO’ MONEY
NEMO 2:ELECTRIC EEL BOOGALOO
It looks like Disney is trying to squeeze a lot of dollars out of characters we already know and love with the new Monsters Inc and now a sequel to Finding Nemo. Wonder which great Pixar movie they will make a sequel to next.
Right now, the Incredibles is the only pixar film that needs a sequel. The Toy story series has concluded nicely, after being the only other pixar property that cried out sequel. Cars 2 was actually better than the first but still did not live up to pixar’s usual standard of classics. Monsters University doesn’t look like it will live up to the first, and Finding Nemo 2 would ruin the fabric of the first. Ironically, the money making Disney company isn’t doing an Incredibles 2 because of their Marvel purchase.
I’m not worried, I mean yes Pixar has gone low with Brave, Brave didn’t deserve to be Pixar it was awful and dumb, I think that wreck it Ralph deserved to be Pixar, but I am a little worried with Nemo 2 because of Cars 2 but not that worried because its a classic unlike Cars. I think that Monsters U will be good because Pixar knows that they can’t destroy the classics (from that I mean from Toy Story 1-Toy story 3 cars 2 and Barve? Not Pixar classics) I mean the Toy Story trilogy was awesome! So maybe yeah, Monsters U and Nemo 2 are in good hands, but I think that Wall-e, Rattatouile, and The incredibles, maybe Bugs life, deserve sequels too!
WDAS deserved to be better than Pixar at least once.
Albert Brooks wrote/directed at least 4 or 5 movies better than that piece of shit, The Muse. Why reference it in the same sentence as Lost in America?
Love him, love him, love him. A true talent.
How do we work Star Wars into this? Can they be on a planet that’s completely water so the whole planet is water? Jar Jar Binks took Anakin and Obi Wan underwater in Phantom Menace but that movie was a stinker. Somebody figure out how we can make this so it will be Star Wars: The Search for Nemo 2 then we will make much more money. And under no circumstances is Andrew Stanton to ever direct another live action movie. Keep him at Pixar Animation where he belongs damn it. This is Walt over and out.
That was all kinds of nonsense.
You’ve been trolled.
Ben Affleck now joins Albert Brooks as the two most outrageous Oscar snubs in the last 25 years. Now those two should do a movie together! It’s hard to hate on Pixar. Personally I am interested in what the sequel will look like. Andrew Stanton knows his stuff.
“Ben Affleck now joins Albert Brooks as the two most outrageous Oscar snubs in the last 25 years”
At what point did the online conversation go from “Hey, ‘Argo’ is a technically accomplished exercise in genre filmmaking” to ‘Affleck is one of the 5 best directors … ON THE PLANET.’ When did that happen? ‘Argo’ is a perfectly fine piece of filmmaking that has little to say politically and accomplishes nothing more than it promises, yet some people act as if Affleck’s the second coming of Orson Welles now because he made another decent genre film.
Aw, I was hoping he would instead reprise something like one of his Simpsons characters. I must be the only person on Earth who thinks he could have lived a happy adult life without even TS3.
I don’t understand a description of “John Carter” as disastrous. The film has some good characters and excellent set pieces, although some elements could have been better. Clearly the marketing was unsuccessful and that was always going to be a problem for a slightly unusual property. Stanton should have probably realised he couldn’t do the kind of “reshooting/reanimating” he’s used to at Pixar, but the guy is red-hot on story and character, and thoroughly deserves another shot at live-action.
As I understand it, Stanton had final approval over the marketing of John Carter as well as final cut, and refused to listen to the many voices of concern regarding the film (which I personally found unwatchable, although I generally love the genre). If Stanton gets another shot at live action without final cut and without marketing approval, and at a vastly smaller budget, fine. Otherwise, giving him another shot at live action is crazy.
Whenever or not the movie was actually good, it was undeniably one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. I personally think if the movie did not suddenly become the underdog, it would have been viewed as both bland and all over the place, just like the marketing.
John Carter earned $73,078,100 in North America and $209,700,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total as of June 28, 2012 of $282,778,100.[80] It had a worldwide opening of $100.8 million.[81] In North America, it opened in first place on Friday, March 9, 2012 with $9.81 million.[82] However, by Sunday, it had grossed $30.2 million, falling to second place for the weekend, behind The Lorax.[83] Outside North America, it topped the weekend chart, opening with $70.6 million.[84] Its highest-grossing opening was in Russia and the CIS, where it broke the all-time opening-day record ($6.5 million)[85] and earned $16.5 million during the weekend.[86] The film also scored the second-best opening weekend for a Disney film in China[87] ($14.0 million).[88] It was in first place at the box office outside North America for two consecutive weekends.[89] Its highest-grossing areas after North America are China ($41.5 million),[90] Russia and the CIS ($33.4 million), and Mexico ($12.1 million).[91]
In the week following the John Carter’s domestic release, movie industry analysts predicted that Disney would lose $100-to-150 million on the picture.[92] However, its box office strength outside North America led some analysts to speculate that the write-down would be significantly less than expected.[92][93][94] On May 8, 2012, the Walt Disney Company released a statement on its earnings which attributed the $161 million deterioration in the operating income of their Studio Entertainment division to a loss of $84 million in the quarter ending March 2012 “primarily” to the performance of John Carter and the associated cost write-down.[95]
The film’s perceived failure led to the resignation of Rich Ross, the head of Walt Disney Studios, even though Ross had arrived there from his earlier success at the Disney Channel with John Carter already in development.[96] Ross theoretically could have stopped production on John Carter as he did with a planned production of Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or minimize the budget as he did to the upcoming Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp.[97] Instead, Stanton was given the production budget requested for John Carter, backed with an estimated $100 million marketing campaign that is typical for a tentpole movie but without significant merchandising or other ancillary tie-ins.[47] It was reported that Ross later sought to blame Pixar for John Carter, which prompted key Pixar executives to turn against Ross who already had alienated many within the studio.[98] The film rebounded at the domestic box office charts from No. 38 to No. 12 on the first weekend of May 2012 after drive-ins paired it with Disney’s release of The Avengers which brought John Carter’s domestic gross to about $70.8 million.[99]
There were three things wrong with John Carter, and they all Stanton’s fault. He blew out the budget with massive, wasteful filming techniques, the marketing stank (especially the title), and the lead actor needed a lot of swagger and spark, and Taylor Kitsch is a low-key TV drama guy (though the Brit actress who played the princess had a lot of charisma). However, in spite of all that, it was still a better movie than it got trashed out to be. If Stanton can be financially disciplined, leave the marketing to people who know what they’re doing, he could do well.
Oh dear God no….
It’s official, Pixar has lost it’s soul. And for those who want to blame Disney, then you would be wrong. Disney is not holding a gun to Lasseter’s or Stanton’s head. Both “men” and I use that term lightly could have said they would come up with something original but no. They took the easy way out. How sad and pathetic. What possible story could they come up with? The father gets lost this time? What will the title be? Nemo: fish finder?
Just ridiculous. I actually hope Monsters University fails so that everyone knows how cheap Pixar has become! Screw them.
Stanton is a loser. He should never get another shot at love-action. He obviously cut a deal…what a greedy tool.
I meant live-action. Although that Stanton fool should never ever get any love action again either! Take that you tool!
Pixar presents LIVE ACTION LOVE ACTION a new film by Andrew Stanton.
“John Carter” made something like $300 million when all was said and done… not exactly the definition of a “disaster.” I still don’t get why Disney didn’t crank up its marketing machine for that movie with toys and coloring books and splashy puff pieces on the actors in PEOPLE and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and all the other usual stuff that accompanies big-budget tent-pole type movies. It’s almost like they just figured the thing would find its own audience, which certainly happened overseas, but not so much in the US.
Meet the Robinsons should have won what?
John Carter was shot in 2D but Disney want the movie in 3D so that
cost extra money and was not Andrew Stanton fault.
The marketing cost never ever 100 Mill. Dollar!