Sunday, March 22, 2015

"Imagine a place where nothing is impossible"

Here's two things you wouldn't think would go together: Disney and George Clooney–but it's happening my friends. If you've gone to the movies recently, then you've probably seen the teaser trailer for Disney's upcoming film Tomorrowland. 



The film shares its name with the science fiction themed land within Disneyland itself. In case you're not familiar with it, Tomorrowland (the park, not the film) includes attractions such as Space Mountain, Star Tours, and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Both the park and the film are based off futuristic societies, except in the film, Tomorrowland is an entirely different dimension.

The plot for Tomorrowland is as follows: "Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland.""
(Source: IMDb)

The cast is absolutely star studded. The biggest stars in this movie would obviously be, as I said before, George Clooney as Frank Walker, the former boy-genius, and Hugh Laurie, who you will likely remember from the TV show House, who plays David Nix, the main antagonist of the film who kicked the young Frank out of Tomorrowland all those years ago. Last but not least, the film's heroine, Casey Newton, is played by Britt Robertson, who made her debut in The Ghost Club and is also in the TV show Under the Dome as Angie McAlister. 

Tomorrowland, according to Disney's second Tomorrowland trailer (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sH0__SpV88), is "...a place where the best and brightest in the world came together to change it." This trailer gives us the most insight into the plot of the movie so far. We learn, as shown in the quote above, the reason why Tomorrowland was created in the first
place and we can also infer a few things about Casey, for instance, a rebellious vibe, as we first see her being released from a jail of some sort, but we can also assume that she is quite intelligent, as she is one of few that can actually visit Tomorrowland. We can definitely see how Casey possesses a capability that others don't when she grabs the pin and can see the future while still somehow being in the present, but when her father (Fun Fact: to add to the elite cast, Tim McGraw plays her father) grabs the pin and it has no effect on him.

I don't know about y'all, but I am ridiculously pumped to see this movie. I can't wait to see the way they adapt the pieces of the park itself in to the film. Making a movie like this based off of one of the parks to me is like creating a movie from the pieces of Walt Disney's imagination itself. I can not wait to see the way they use the modern animation to bring his ideas to life in a was that Walt could only dream of.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the information. So excited as usual your blog is on point. I had no idea House was gunna be in it. I hope it's going to be good and no like some dumb wanna be movie. Anywho good job you should be honored I commented on your blog as the last one.

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