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‘Brave’ Character Images & Poster: A Darker Pixar Fantasy

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:01:08 +0000

Pixar animation studio’s latest film, Cars 2, hits theaters tomorrow, and promises to be a bright and colorful sequel aimed primarily at younger moviegoers. However, the studio will shift gears back to more original and complex material with next year’s release, Brave.

Brave marks the first full-blown fairy tale for Pixar, and based on early conceptual artwork for the film, it should not only be as beautifully animated as the company’s previous features, but will also find the organization behind classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo venturing into new territory – both in terms of its mystical setting and darker narrative.

The film revolves around one Scottish Princess Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald), an accomplished and overall capable warrior who inadvertently violates an ancient law of ...

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Pixar’s ‘Brave’ is Actually ‘The Bear and the Bow’

Carl Lee — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:24:34 +0000

With Up coming out this weekend (May 29th), you might have guessed that director Pete Docter has been doing lots of interviews and other press. In a discussion with Coming Soon, an intriguing slip lead to massive amounts of speculation. We tried to stay out of that mess until some clear(er) details were available. So what exactly is Brave you ask?

Apparently, it’s Pixar’s 2011 winter feature The Bear and the Bow.

‘Brave’, it turns out, is Pixar’s internal name for The Bear and the Bow. Writer and director Brenda Chapman (Cars, Prince of Egypt) is ‘behind the lens’ of Pixar’s first fairy tale, which stars Reese Witherspoon. The Pixar Blog reports the story is of a Scottish princess Merida, who would rather be known as a great (and brave) archer. Against her mother’s wishes, she ...

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