The Shadow King
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Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Griffin Newman: 4 lines in Wendell & Wild
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
Wendell and Wild: 1 line the host's read ×1
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unmapped (unfinished predecessor):
The Shadow King ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the host's read).
The Shadow King combined stop motion with shadow animation; some of that is used in Wendell & Wild.
“And they use some of that in this film, Wendell and Wild.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:44:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Connected to
Alan Horn: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (blame):
Alan Horn → The Shadow King.
Selick says Alan Horn found the movie too weird to sell.
“said the movie was too weird.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:49:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Brave: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (Pixar brain-trust meddling):
The Shadow King → Brave.
Both were cases of the Pixar brain trust pressing a filmmaker's personal story into Pixar principles.
“which this is the same time that the brave thing goes down.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:04:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Dumbo: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (story analogy):
The Shadow King → Dumbo.
The Shadow King's long fingers become a gift, like Dumbo's ears.
“it's like Dumbo where like his terrifying, gigantic ears end up becoming this artistic gift.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:44:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Wendell and Wild: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (unfinished predecessor):
The Shadow King → Wendell and Wild.
The Shadow King combined stop motion with shadow animation; some of that is used in Wendell & Wild.
“And they use some of that in this film, Wendell and Wild.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:44:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- anecdote in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild, first at 0:43:25, 8 times
What was said about it, by kind
theme (1)
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theme (story analogy):
The Shadow King → Dumbo.
The Shadow King's long fingers become a gift, like Dumbo's ears.
“it's like Dumbo where like his terrifying, gigantic ears end up becoming this artistic gift.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:44:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (3)
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unmapped (unfinished predecessor):
The Shadow King → Wendell and Wild.
The Shadow King combined stop motion with shadow animation; some of that is used in Wendell & Wild.
“And they use some of that in this film, Wendell and Wild.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:44:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (blame):
Alan Horn → The Shadow King.
Selick says Alan Horn found the movie too weird to sell.
“said the movie was too weird.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:49:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (Pixar brain-trust meddling):
The Shadow King → Brave.
Both were cases of the Pixar brain trust pressing a filmmaker's personal story into Pixar principles.
“which this is the same time that the brave thing goes down.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:04:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
The Shadow King:
Pitch: nine-year-old New York orphan Hap with long fingers makes shadow hands fight a monster that wants to eat New York; Selick wanted to blend stop motion with cut-out and shadow animation.
“a deliciously magical tale about a nine-year-old New York orphan named Hap, who hides his weird hands with long fingers from a cruel world.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:43:53 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Disney: backed Cinderbiter Studios; took a $50M write-down (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Wendell & Wild)
- Henry Selick: director (attached, never made) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Wendell & Wild)
- John Lasseter: Pixar head who brought Selick in and later shut down (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Wendell & Wild)
- Alan Horn: Disney Studios head who said the film was too weird (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Wendell & Wild)
- Pixar: studio that offered Selick a stop-motion wing (Cinderbiter) and shut The Shadow King down (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Wendell & Wild)