'Toy Story 3' Details Leaked by The Wall Street Journal?
Filed under: Animation, RumorMonger, Scripts, Family Films, Remakes and Sequels
It has been over a year since the director and screenwriter were named for Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich and Michael Arndt). Finally, it seems that we're getting some plot details, but there's a case of dueling summaries going on. Over at Empire, they say that The Wall Street Journal got a bit loose-lipped in an article they recently ran about Disney Pixar stopping the outsourcing of their movies' video games. The Journal says: "Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college." That makes sense. It's been 11 years since the last film, so a whole lot of time has gone by (not that time really matters in the film world). Now, the twist comes in over at IMDb. Just the other day, the plot summary was updated and it says: "In this new adventure, Buzz Lightyear has encountered a malfunction and is being sent to Taiwan to be fixed. It appears that these malfunctions are occurring with toys all around the world! Now, Woody and a group of his friends are on a mission to save Buzz's destruction."
So, did the Journal really leak something? Is Disney/Pixar putting up a bunch of different summaries to mess with our minds? Or, is this summary on IMDb just b-s?
More importantly: Which would you prefer?
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2-20-2008 @ 10:29AM
Nerd2thend said...
That IMDb summary is the story EW reported a few years ago as the Disney sans-Pixar version that got dumped when they made up back in '06.
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2-20-2008 @ 10:41AM
scott said...
The IMDb description is an old one -- back from the days when Disney was going to make TS3 without the help of Pixar -- pre-merger. That doesn't mean it's inaccurate. But, given the recent events with toys made in the far east, it might be a little too on-the-mark -- especially since there's a good chance that at least some of the merchandising items, such as real toys based on the movie characters, are made in Taiwan (just guessing on that one).
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2-20-2008 @ 1:03PM
Barry Wilhelm said...
Here's hoping it's the WSJ version. The thing that made the first two movies so compelling is the toys' connections with the humans who play with them. I'm not seeing such a connection in the IMDb summary.
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