The Good Dinosaur
Also known as: The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs (Working Title)
- Studio
- Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
- Animation studio
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Distributor
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (U.S.)
Synopsis
What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely, and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? That's what this hilarious, heartfelt and original tale explores when Arlo, a 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus, befriends a young human boy named Spot.
Characters
Arlo the Apatosaurus, Spot, Poppa Henry, Momma Ida, Thunderclap, Buck, Ramsey, Nash, Butch, Forrest Woodbush, Bubbha, Downpour, Lurleane, Earl, Pervis, Coldfron, Windgust, Frostbite, Jack, Will
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Sohn
Producing
- Producer
- Denise Ream
- Executive Producer
- John Lasseter
Writing
- Writer
- Enrico Casarosa, Bob Peterson
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Raymond Ochoa (Arlo the Apatosaurus), Jack Bright (Spot), Jeffrey Wright (Poppa Henry), Frances McDormand (Momma Ida), Steve Zahn (Thunderclap), Marcus Scribner (Buck), Anna Paquin (Ramsey), A.J. Buckley (Nash), Sam Elliott (Butch), Maleah Padilla (Young Libby), Peter Sohn (Forrest Woodbush), Dave Boat (Bubbha), Mandy Freund (Downpour), Carrie Paff (Lurleane), John Ratzenberger (Earl), Mackenzie Grant (Pervis), Steven Clay Hunter (Coldfron)
Music
- Music
- Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna
Editing
- Editor
- Stephen Schaffer
Crew
- Casting
- Natalie Lyon, Kevin Reher
- Head Of Story
- Enrico Casarosa
- Production Designer
- Daniel Lopez Munoz
- Previsualization Modeling & Camera
- Andy Grisdale
- Storyboards
- Adam Campbell, Edgar Karapetyan
- Additional Storyboarding
- James S. Baker
- Layout Artists
- Andrew Cadelago, Andy Grisdale, Ryan Heuett, Seong-Young Kim, Charlie Ramos
- Animators
- Dovi Anderson, Brendan Beesley, Jude Brownbill, Brett Coderre, Arik Ehle, Catherine Hicks, Steven Clay Hunter, Aaron Koressel, Jayson Price, Tal Shwarzman, Benjamin Su, Raphael Suter, David Torres, Kristophe Vergne, Stephen L. Wong
- Fix And Additional Animator
- Luis Carlos Uribe
- FX Technical Director
- Eric Lacroix
- Set Modeling Lead
- Gaston Ugarte
- Sets Supervisor
- David Munier
- Technical Director
- Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
- Simulation And Crowds Supervisor
- Gordon D.B. Cameron
- Simulation Technical Directors
- Mariana Galindo, David Lally, Thomas Moser
- Digital Artist
- Andrew Jimenez
- Effects Artists
- Shaun Galinak, John Lockwood
- Visual Effects Artists
- David Lipton, Lana Chen Sun
- Lighting Coordinator
- Pauline Chu
- Lighting Lead
- Jordan Rempel
- Lightspeed Technical Director
- Jonathan D. Penney
- Lead Character Modeling And Articulation Artist
- Lou Hamou-Lhadj
- Character Modeler/Rigger
- Jared Fong
- Character Shading And Paint Artist
- Athena Xenakis
- Crowds Technical Artist
- Hsiao-Hsien Lo
- Volumetric Clouds Artist
- Martin Sebastian Senn
- Lead Software Engineer
- Davide Pesare
- Mastering Supervisor
- Robin D. Young
- Editorial Assistant
- Joe Garrity
- Editorial Coordinator
- Kathryn Hendrickson
- First Assistant Editor
- C.J. Hsu
- Assistant Editors
- Thomas Gonzales, Katie Schaefer, Christopher Zuber
- Editorial Intern
- Amber Dupre
- Color Grading Operator
- Susan Brunig
- Media Control Center Operator
- Cris Knight
- Music Supervisor
- Tom MacDougall
- Executive Music Producer
- Chris Montan
- Orchestrator
- Nicholas Dodd
- Music Editor
- Erich Stratmann
- Score Editor
- David Channing
- Scoring Mixer
- Brad Haehnel
- Scoring Recordists
- Tom Hardisty, Erik Swanson
- Music Score Assistants
- Brooks Ball, Kenny Wood
- Head Of Music Preparation
- Mark Graham
- Music Copyist
- Victor Pesavento
- Manager of Music Production
- Ashley Chafin
- Music Preparation
- Luke Flynn, Riley Hughes, Andrew Rowan, Joe Zimmerman
- Musican: Violin
- Paul S. Henning
- Musican: Mandolin And Banjo
- Andrew Synowiec
- Musician: Harmonica
- Gary Allegretto, Jimmie Wood
- Musician: Percussion
- Wade Culbreath
- Musician: Vocalist
- William Kenneth Goldman
- Production Music Editor
- Justin Pearson
- Sound Designer
- Craig Berkey
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Shannon Mills
- Assistant Sound Editor
- Kenny Pickett
- Dialogue Supervisor
- Daniel Laurie
- Digital Editorial Services
- David Peifer
- Production Sound Effects Editor
- Justin Pearson
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Tom Johnson
- ADR Mixer
- Michael Miller
- ADR Recordist
- Courtney Bishop
- Engineer
- Scott Levine
- Foley Mixer
- Kyle Rochlin
- Atmos Technician
- Darpan Patel
- Operations Coordinator
- Michael Hitson
- Production Resource Associate: Post Production
- Christine Wilcock
- Project Manager: Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema
- D.R. Farquharson
- Sim & Crowds Production Coordinator
- Junn Lee
- Systems Support: Telecom, Pixar Studio Team
- Shawn Hovis
- Systems Technical Lead: Pixar Studio Team
- Lars R. Damerow, David Sotnick
- University And Archives: Pixar Studio Team
- Collin Allen
Companies and other credits
- Design: arley Jessup
Production notes
Announced by Disney and Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter during the 2011 D23 fall expo for Disney fans in Anaheim, California.
Initially set for a Christmas 2013 release; that release slot was filled by Disney's Frozen. Instead of going back to the dinosaur era, the movie presupposes the devastating asteroid never hit Earth, dinosaurs didn't become extinct, and that the creatures and humans to live together.
To be accompanied by the Pixar short Party Time.
Bob Peterson was also removed as director of this film in August of 2013. No new director was announced at the time.
Pushed back to November 25, 2015 in September of 2013. Pixar president Ed Catmull told the LA Times, “Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film. Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time.” Producer John Walker was also replaced at the same time by Denise Ream.
Over the winter of 2013 and spring of 2014, the story was completely reworked by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Mark Andrews, and Pete Sohn. By August 2014, the film seemed ready to proceed forward with a completely new story. Voice actor John Lithgow said to Collider:
On October 20, 2014, Pixar announced via Twitter that co-director Peter Sohn would move up to the the director's chair for this film.
In June, 2015, Pixar announced an almost complete re-cast of the film. Removed from the film were: John Lithgow (Poppa), Neil Patrick Harris (Cliff), Lucas Neff (Arlo), Judy Greer (Ivy), Bill Hader (Forrest), with only Frances McDormand (Momma) remaining from the original cast.
Initially set for a Christmas 2013 release; that release slot was filled by Disney's Frozen. Instead of going back to the dinosaur era, the movie presupposes the devastating asteroid never hit Earth, dinosaurs didn't become extinct, and that the creatures and humans to live together.
To be accompanied by the Pixar short Party Time.
Bob Peterson was also removed as director of this film in August of 2013. No new director was announced at the time.
Pushed back to November 25, 2015 in September of 2013. Pixar president Ed Catmull told the LA Times, “Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film. Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time.” Producer John Walker was also replaced at the same time by Denise Ream.
Over the winter of 2013 and spring of 2014, the story was completely reworked by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Mark Andrews, and Pete Sohn. By August 2014, the film seemed ready to proceed forward with a completely new story. Voice actor John Lithgow said to Collider:
I recorded the entire role in Good Dinosaur. They have now dismantled it and completely reimagined it, and it is a fantastic new story. So I'm gonna record again on it within the next month. Don't worry. It's coming and it's gonna be better than I ever imagined.
On October 20, 2014, Pixar announced via Twitter that co-director Peter Sohn would move up to the the director's chair for this film.
In June, 2015, Pixar announced an almost complete re-cast of the film. Removed from the film were: John Lithgow (Poppa), Neil Patrick Harris (Cliff), Lucas Neff (Arlo), Judy Greer (Ivy), Bill Hader (Forrest), with only Frances McDormand (Momma) remaining from the original cast.
