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Re: MLP Movie - 2017, Hasbro Allspark, Joe Ballarini Writing

Postby Bumble-B (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:10 am

Oh, Paramount was also behind the Spongebob Movies. Movies derived from an awfully popular show...
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 5:41 am

Hey, the Spongebob movies are awesome. If MLP The Movie has something equally awesome as Goofy Goober Rock, it'll be worth it.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:39 pm

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 25402.html

Everyone was wrong. Lionsgate will be distributing and marketing.

They signed on Kristin Chenoweth to voice a character.

Also a synopsis was given.

In the movie, a new dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 – Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity – embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship and save their home. The MY LITTLE PONY film will feature all new music with the Mane Six characters voiced by Tara Strong, Cathy Weseluck, Andrea Libman, Tabitha St. Germain and Ashleigh Ball. Jayson Theissen is directing. Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis are producing the film with Meghan McCarthy and Michael Vogel co-executive producing.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:48 pm

I notice that there's no mention of Joe Ballarini. Did they drop him?
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:49 pm

Wow, I sure was not expecting a synopsis so early. It seems kinda vague but it leaves a LOT open to speculate on.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:12 pm

:ponder: Lionsgate films...

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:-/ don't....

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:twonk: please don't...

:delight: From the studio that brought you "Twilight" comes a movie about "Twilight".
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:26 pm

I thought that was Summit?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:32 pm

Marimo wrote:I thought that was Summit?


They're a subsidiary of Lionsgate.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:33 pm

Has Lionsgate ever distributed animated films before? :ponder:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:36 pm

I trust we'll get more details as time goes on, because the synopsis sounds like every season opener/finale at the moment. Image
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:39 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Has Lionsgate ever distributed animated films before? :ponder:

Some. They were either direct to DVD or didn't get much exposure.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:18 pm

Bakertoons wrote:I notice that there's no mention of Joe Ballarini. Did they drop him?

It'd be one thing if the press release merely didn't mention him, but to outright say that Meghan McCarthy wrote it, that's definitely unusual. I wonder what happened.


Edit: Scroll down to last October on his Twitter feed. He had been tweeting a fair amount about the movie back when the news first broke back then, but he's deleted almost all those tweets now, so it does seem fairly likely that he's not working on the movie anymore.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:17 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Has Lionsgate ever distributed animated films before? :ponder:

They released the "Shaun the Sheep" movie that just came out

IIRC, Lionsgate was founded in Vancouver, so it's fitting that they're releasing a Pony movie
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:05 pm

So the brand comes full circle then. :v:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:48 pm

Beyond Equestria, huh?

Taking all bets on humanworld.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:04 pm

Nah, just more hooved creatures besides griffons
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:14 pm

Headless Horse wrote:Beyond Equestria, huh?

Taking all bets on humanworld.

There's no way. Hasbro seems to want to keep FiM and EqG apart more, so I can't possibly see them pissing away what looks to be FiM's climax on that.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:08 am

No, no. Not Dougworld. Humanworld.




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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:52 am

Plz no live action like Smurfs :barf: lol
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:26 am

Wayoshi wrote:Plz no live action like Smurfs :barf: lol

I'm pretty sure that's the main reason Hasbro told Sony to fuck off when that idea came up in that leaked email.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:37 am

They already said the movie would be animated. They don't call the Bayformers movies animated despite all the CGI.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:17 am

Wayoshi wrote:Plz no live action like Smurfs :barf: lol


Sony tried pushing the movie in that direction but Hasbro was like "no way in hell are you doinf this" and they broke off.
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:13 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:
Sony tried pushing the movie in that direction but Hasbro was like "no way in hell are you doinf this" and they broke off.

I'd like to imagine it was pronounced exactly that way.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:32 pm

So wait, if they dropped Joe Ballarini, does that mean his contributions won't make it in to the final project?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:42 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:So wait, if they dropped Joe Ballarini, does that mean his contributions won't make it in to the final project?



It's not unheard of for films to go through a few different writers. Some of his stuff could very well show up in the film, even if he didn't do the final version of the script.

Though, with him apparently deleting tweets related to the film, his script could have been scrapped entirely.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:44 pm

Maybe he wrote the basic story and Meghan McCarthy (and possibly others) filled out the full screenplay. A handful of episodes have been written in such a fashion, too.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:26 pm

Huh, really? I didn't know that, I just thought that the writers came up with both the story and the screenplay. Any episodes where this is particularly notable?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:30 pm

PYHD, SAYS, KCaFO, Pinkie Pride, The Cutie Map, Princess Spike, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep? were all specifically credited as such.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:36 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:PYHD, SAYS, KCaFO, Pinkie Pride, The Cutie Map, Princess Spike, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep? were all specifically credited as such.

Also "Party Pooped".
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:54 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Has Lionsgate ever distributed animated films before? :ponder:

They were the ones behind that terribad talking wolf movie from a few years ago. Which has at this point already gotten two three FOUR direct-to-DVD sequels because children's animated films are a barrel that has no bottom.

Interesting that they got the Shaun the Sheep deal; I thought Aardman was still under contract with Sony. I wonder if that deal also got voided at the last minute over the leaks.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:29 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Maybe he wrote the basic story and Meghan McCarthy (and possibly others) filled out the full screenplay. A handful of episodes have been written in such a fashion, too.

Well we know Meghan did the first version of the script way back early last year. Then they collaborated with Ballarini on another script, and now we have credit for a pure McCarthy script. If I had to guess, the Ballarini version was a completely different script and this current one might be based on the original one by Meghan.

But yeah, if you haven't noticed already, these things are confusing and they change constantly, so speculating on limited info often goes wrong. :v: I guess we'll have to wait and see if future material matches the leaked original version.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:44 pm

Well, Ballarini's past tweets now look dumb probably.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:36 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Well, Ballarini's past tweets now look dumb probably.

He deleted pretty much all of them. :-I
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:09 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Maybe he wrote the basic story and Meghan McCarthy (and possibly others) filled out the full screenplay. A handful of episodes have been written in such a fashion, too.

Fizzbuzz wrote:PYHD, SAYS, KCaFO, Pinkie Pride, The Cutie Map, Princess Spike, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep? were all specifically credited as such.

Bakertoons wrote:Also "Party Pooped".

What exactly does a basic story mean? For Princess Spike, Party Pooped, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, Jim said he and Jayson provided just a basic premise. Example for Party Pooped: "Yaks being difficult. Pinkie on a journey." I can't imagine they brought in Ballarini just to write a few sentences or paragraphs.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:13 am

Marimo wrote:

What exactly does a basic story mean? For Princess Spike, Party Pooped, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, Jim said he and Jayson provided just a basic premise. Example for Party Pooped: "Yaks being difficult. Pinkie on a journey." I can't imagine they brought in Ballarini just to write a few sentences or paragraphs.



Well, at Bronycon they talked about Cutie Map at the writers panel. This was from EQD's coverage of it.

"The "Equality Town" from the Season 5 premiere was Meghan McCarthy's idea and first interpreted in script format by Scott Sonneborn" Meghan had the basic story idea, then Scott (and even later, Larson) turned that into a working script.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:56 am

Marimo wrote:

What exactly does a basic story mean? For Princess Spike, Party Pooped, and Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, Jim said he and Jayson provided just a basic premise. Example for Party Pooped: "Yaks being difficult. Pinkie on a journey." I can't imagine they brought in Ballarini just to write a few sentences or paragraphs.

An example of a story outline with for an 11 minute cartoon is this.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:21 am

(Cross posting)

I wonder if the movie will be a direct continuation of the FiM series or will it be a reboot/reimagining, taking certain moments from the series to create one film.

The latter seems very plausible given that a handful of adults and maybe kids may have not seen much FiM or know about the show at all. Granted, it's entirely possible that they could do a tremendous job of introducing the world and characters to new audiences too with the former idea.

Also, the reboot/reimagining, taking key scenes from the show to make one 'coherent' story reminds me of Avatar: The Last Airbender... The Movie :shepspike:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:44 am

Logically, you'd think they'll try to make it as accessible to new folks as possible.

However, it is "My Little Pony", I think Hasbro expecting a wide reaching appeal of the film would be foolish. They might just be making a film for the fans.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:49 am

I think it'll just be a continuation of the show, introducing the concept can be done with opening narration or something.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:19 am

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