{"id":2121,"date":"2006-08-02T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/08\/cgi-kids-do-battle-with-a-time-traveling-luddite\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:35:00","slug":"cgi-kids-do-battle-with-a-time-traveling-luddite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/08\/cgi-kids-do-battle-with-a-time-traveling-luddite.html","title":{"rendered":"CGI kids do battle with a time-traveling Luddite!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that director-producer Jonas McCord<\/a> and former Pixar animator Seth Piezas<\/a> are looking for financing for a new animated children\u2019s series, to be called Unnatural History<\/i>, that combines education and entertainment. The new show \u201cwill follow four kids who travel through time, hell-bent on stopping an anti-technologist from destroying new inventions at their source.\u201d Also:<\/span><\/p>\n

McCord said the cost will be high \u2014 more than $400,000 per half-hour \u2014 because the animation will be high-end 3-D, similar to \u201cSpongeBob SquarePants\u201d and \u201cJimmy Neutron.\u201d But he envisions a strong backend of DVD, books, merchandise and even scholarships for kids underwritten by corporate sponsors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much as I love time travel, and much as I love animation, this news item would not ordinarily rate a mention here; but I mention it anyway, because McCord, whose credits are almost entirely in writing and producing, has directed just one feature film in his entire life \u2014 and that film was The Body<\/a><\/i> (2001), which starred Antonio Banderas as a priest who investigates the discovery of a skeleton that just might be the bones of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

So, like, maybe these time-travelling kids will get a chance to witness the invention of religions, too, eh?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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