Source: http://www.awn.com/articles/2d/newton-r ... page/8%2C1Dean Wellins: I am now in the “B” side, as Tick Tock Tale was the “A” side, of my springboard into a feature, which I'm developing right now at Disney.
Q: Is there a timetable on this project?
Dean Wellins: It looks like it’s going to be 2014-2015, depending upon how things go. So far, so good. We've got a writer, we're busy doing development artwork, we're excited. John’s excited. I've been going on research trips, actually been using a lot of Pixar guys, like Jay Ward. He has been side by side with me as we gallivant around the US looking at crazy car stuff. It’s cool. Jay Ward is John’s car guy. He’s like the guru of all things automotive. He sort of oversees the integrity of cars, like on Cars 2, all the vehicles, their names and characters. His card says “Jay Ward, all things cars.” You gotta love that job. It’s great. It’s what you love and you want to be the best at it.
Source: http://www.blueskydisney.com/2010/07/re ... rth-2.htmlHonor Hunter wrote:One other project is in development from Dean Wellins that is the other CG animated feature, it is in the formative stages as well. Again, the story is very unlike what we've seen in the past, but we will wait to see how this one evolves. It all depends on how the development process goes, but the direction that John and Ed have now plotted is far more interesting than the original line-up a few years ago.
Source: http://www.blueskydisney.com/2011/07/untitled-road.htmlHonor Hunter wrote:If their project is not ready, then Dean Wellins' project will fill the slot. His is a story that will be very different from the mold we picture Disney animated films and this is a project that is aimed at all those boys that don't like princess movies.
Source: http://www.blueskydisney.com/2011/08/wo ... films.htmlHonor Hunter wrote:But the most interesting ones are yet to come from the trailers of what Dean Wellins and Don Hall have planned. By this time WDAS will have likely rebuilt a reputation that war torn down over the late 90's/early 2000's.
Source: http://www.blueskydisney.com/2013/06/bl ... m-hat.htmlHonor Hunter wrote:Right now Dean Wellins has a genre-hybrid film that he's working on that is lined up with Bob Iger's strategy of getting more of the young male demographic to seeing Disney films (Marvel and Star Wars were bought for this purpose). But if it makes it in 2016 is entirely up to how the story is developing by then, and any trouble by Lasseter and his Story Trust would mean that another film would get called up to the slot. What other film could be next? Or if not then, which one would be the next one released for 2018?
Source http://www.blueskydisney.com/2013/07/cl ... ahead.htmlHonor Hunter wrote:Following that, if story issues are worked out Dean Wellin's teenage space race animated film will rush to the screens. Wellin's film is an unusual story that is different from most Disney Animation, just as Big Hero 6 marks a change in perception of what comes from the Mouse.