so according to The Hollywood Reporter John Lasseter ain't coming back
that sabbatical will never end now this ran under a headline that
revealed that Disney Animation that's today Disney Animation and Pixar
together are having a quote-unquote day of listening to get the pulse of their
employees not just the current atmosphere but if John Lasseter maybe
could come back and I have two takeaways from this idea of a day of listening the
first is that I hope that it allows for private discussions with human resources
instead of a town hall or else you'll never get the real lay of the land and
then second apparently there was a day of listening a few years ago and there
were complaints back then about John Lasseter's lecherous behavior it's been
labeled as just hugging but if you've looked into the matter it was actually
much worse because everyone in Hollywood hugs but anyway ed catmull you know very
you know very politely and privately relayed this information to John
Lasseter instead of oh I don't know changing his behavior and thanking
Catmull for a heads-up instead John Lasseter decided not to speak for
Catmull to Catmull for a week I'd I also don't think that that outcome from the
first day of listening is a good motivator to speak up a day of listening
part two right you're like well we talked about the problems last time it
took years for you to fix it and only until the me2 movement got some some
momentum so if your grievance if you feel that your grievance might get like
some momentum in the overall you know social social media sphere well then
sure by all means bring it up but otherwise it's gonna fall on deaf ears
that's kind of but that's a whole different discussion about the problems
with Human Resources today at companies we're talking about Disney animation and
since it seems that John Lasseter creeped out at least all the women who
work at Disney animation it does seem unlikely that he would be able to return
so who might take over there's some speculation as to which we'll discuss in
just a moment but first to avoid this happening again where all their
animation is suddenly leaderless with just one fell swoop they're gonna
separate Disney Animation and Pixar back into two different divisions John
Lasseter of course was overseeing both them and I think this is a great idea I
think it's great to inspire friendly in-house competition between the two
it's good for the bottom line right there should be constantly trying to
one-up each other and there shouldn't be someone at the top who is you know
playing favorites john lasseter well he started his career in Disney Animation
but he built Pixar and then also you know looking out for projects being like
oh well this you know this division is working on this so maybe you shouldn't
do that or we should move this here it should be war friendly war between
Disney Animation and Pixar I have to say I always felt that under John Lasseter
Disney Animation really did lose its way from the days of Walt and then Howard
Ashman / Jeffrey Katzenberg and it became way to pick Surrey and that it
was message driven and it's storytelling and if you can't already tell I do think
it was time for John Lasseter to go at both Disney Animation and Pixar because
both have seen better days creatively but of course I wish it were under
different circumstances now as for who should head up Pixar the
rumor is that it might be Pete docter or Pete docter paired with Andrew Stanton
these are of course two very famous Pixar creatives
and as for interests Anton though he's the I tried to make a break for
live-action had to come back with his tail between his legs
it's a shame john john carter is actually a pretty darn good movie but
that's one of the most infamous cases of advertising ever as we've discussed and
that they you know andrew stanton didn't know how to film for a marketing
campaign and also there was a new head of publicity at the time who was not
getting along within the infrastructure of the company at disney either it was
just a perfect storm for failure and again a really solid movie i slipped
through the cracks and andrew Stanton's live-action career was over before it
even really started and so he's back at Pixar now Mike soon be heading it talk
about failing upwards that's a that's a big thing in business if you haven't
heard that term before but as for Disney obviously I don't like these choices but
I do have a solution and then over at Disney Animation they're thinking of
having three people headed up Nobi Jennifer Lee rich Moore and Byron Howard
basically the Zootopia team as Lee did some rewrites on that script now I have
again problems here now Jennifer Lee she's so far just a one-hit wonder to
date and that was by the skin of as frozen needed last last last last
last minute restructuring boy that's it's crazy how last minute that was and
they haven't been able to duplicate it Olaf's frozen an adventure
the rides pretty sweet but you know that Olaf short oh that was abysmal and also
we'll see if her foray into live-action turns out better than Stanton's did and
ask for more undeniably talented but there's the sameness to his work and so
I don't know if I'd want him running everything I was in the animation and
then as for Byron Howard he really hasn't carved out his own creative
persona I guess right now I would just call him
zany right but if he can't even define who he is and as an individual how is he
going to help a whole division define itself right so here's the thing is
producer suddenly a dirty word in Hollywood these are all directors and
writers what are they even up for the job the two most successful division
heads today at Disney you know no less have never directed or written a movie
now I know some of you will probably already like but Kathleen Kennedy is a
disaster grace she might be a disaster to you but so far she's three for three
and hitting the billion dollar club with her movies and two of those are in the
top ten grossing films of all time although I think we can all agree that a
loss is certainly coming her way her first loss but it's not necessarily
going to derail her we shall see but right now she's full of when and I think
that she and Feige certainly make a strong case for hiring someone similar
to head up another Disney division or any division in Hollywood as we often
discuss I mean just look at the history of Disney Animation well itself Walt
Disney step back from directing and writing early on Howard Ashman was a
lyricist right but the real force behind the first Disney Renaissance was Jeffrey
Katzenberg even if those who worked with him at Disney Animation are loathe to
admit it just watch waking sleeping beauty not only to see how instrumental
Katzenberg was and shaving Disney the Disney Renaissance but also for some
juicy gossip as to how hated he was you know what sometimes the person who's
forcing people to do what needs to be done isn't well liked but he did get the
job done and Katzenberg was and up until just recently a producer and what does
the DCE you so desperately need a good producer so producers are important
and should be treated as such because they're supposed to see the big picture
find exciting talent for instance Jeffrey Katzenberg was the one who
brought in Alan Menken in Howard Ashman and they also keep that talent on track
creatively and business-wise if they're creatives themselves I think maybe they
fall they're a little susceptible to you know the complaints of a creative I just
want to do my thing where producers like that's nice
but I have to deliver a hit movie and don't you want to have a success you
know I wish up for a strong producer and turn to Denis Villeneuve and said I
think it's really gonna derail your career if you know mainstream audiences
don't like your movie you might want to think about that Denis and then maybe
Denis would have been saved the tremendous flop that was Blade Runner
2049 I know that's gonna annoy a lot of you but it's a harsh reality no matter
what you think of it creatively financially the thing is a disaster and
they just got a couple of like craft Oscar nominations so that's not enough
to pull it out of the fire so I agree in keeping Disney Animation and Pixar
leadership separate but I feel strongly they should hire producers to head up
both and I'd recommend actually pulling in live-action producers from outside
the Disney Animation community to bring in a fresh aggressive perspective
Jeffrey Katzenberg came from live-action and I think some of the most exciting
things happening animation today are due to live-action you know creatives coming
in there to mix it up that would maybe also be a good idea to bring in you know
directors at least live-action Directors into animation Disney certainly has
quite the rolodex at this point in it for instance they just fired Phil Lord
and Chris Miller and look at the amazing stuff they're doing with the into the
spider-verse animated movie over at Sony you know it's a shame that Disney
couldn't bring them over into their their animation area but would they go I
don't know but you can see but that's where perhaps you know that cutback that
that energy should be going in terms of writers directors into those specific
films not to overseeing the entire division because I thinks Animation and
Pixar truly made waves when they were leading the charge creatively an animal
and I say today I would categorize both as lobbing softballs at the audience and
awards voters of course there are exceptions like Coco but for the most
part that's what I believe is happening right now I'm not saying it's not
entertaining but it's not like it once was I think we can all agree about that
and if they want to have a couple softballs in there that's fine but I'm
missing those bold creative flourishes right that are also very strong from a
business perspective so I'm curious what are your thoughts on the future of
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