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A thought just occurred to me. Will this be the first Pixar feature to not have the Pizza Planet truck, considering it's set many years before the invention of the automobile. I guess they could turn it into a horse and buggy, but did they have pizza in Scotland when Brave is set?

Actually, the Incredibles didn't have the Pizza Planet truck, so this wouldn't be the first.

The Pizza Planet truck is in The Incredibles, during the drive through Metroville at the end. However, it's very quick and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.

The Pizza Planet truck is in The Incredibles, during the drive through Metroville at the end. However, it's very quick and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.

Did you read my post right? Unkrich says its Not in it.

Yeah, I'm not even trying to be a grammar police here, just trying to understand your point of view. Your wording was confusing to say the least.

I also heard that it was never really in the movie.

I've seen people point out blurry frames of what they think is the truck, but nothing concrete enough to ever make me think that the truck is there despite Unkrich's comment.

After Cars 2, the next Pixar film will be summer 2012's Brave and there was a wonderful image from the film on display at the Pixar office of the main character, Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), showing her with long, flowing, fiery red hair and holding a sword.

I mentioned to Lasseter that I was excited to see Pixar's first take on a female-centered story and he nodded, saying "So are we. At Pixar we've always strived to have strong female characters, but granted, all of our films have had male main characters – though female characters have been very, very important in most of the films. But it's nice to have a film where the female is the main character."

Added Lasseter, "It's also our first real, true period film. Incredibles is sort of a period film, in that it's set in a world that evokes the 60s. But this is really medieval Scotland and it's really fun to kind of go into this and to have this kind of legend and lore feel to it. But it's very, very modern in its main character and its arc and the desires and things. It's got phenomenal characters and the look of this thing is unlike anything you've ever seen. Even for Pixar, there's a gorgeous, unique look to this movie and it's very, very exciting."

The first theatrical trailer for Brave, a teaser, will be attached to Cars 2 on June 24, as previously rumored. Expect it to debut online sometime around then. Brave, directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, opens on June 22, 2012.

Confirmed: Brave Teaser Coming with Cars 2.
http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/c ... -cars.html

Still, when Brenda Chapman was fired from Pixar's "Brave," it stung not just Chapman but also her female colleagues in the animation community. "I think it's a really sad state. We're in the 21st century and there are so few stories geared towards girls, told from a female point of view," said Chapman, who spent six years on "Brave" — which was inspired by her relationship with her daughter — before being fired because of what she calls "creative differences."

There are varying industry stories about Ms. Chapman's departure from Emeryville, but it's interesting that the L.A. Times airs this linen on the same day it profiles Jennifer Yuh Nelson, no?

Management at Pixar/ Disney is fond of saying how the pictures are "director driven" and it's all about the "director's vision," etc. To some degree that might be true, but when the director's vision collides with the ideas of the head of the studio, all of a sudden the director isn't driving anymore.

Everybody knows this to be true. It might be useful if management admitted to the reality.

OK, that's it! Now, I have to convice my mom to take me to see Cars 2! i want to see it, but she doesn't care about it.