Home on the Range
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Alameda Slim
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The one-legged rabbit Lucky Jack
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Info
- Release Date: 2004
- Project Phase
- (According to the Calgary Sun) Animation production
- was expected to start sometime in the spring of 2001
- and the voice session work to begin in the early
- summer of 2001
- Genre: Animated Feature Film
- Studio: Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Company: Walt Disney Pictures
- Composer: Alan Menken
- Music: KD Lang has recorded one of the songs
- Western yodeller and all around vocalist extraordinaire,
- Randy Erwin's wish upon a star of singing like Jimminy
- Cricket will come close to fruition when he's heard in
- the upcoming Disney animated feature Sweating Bullets
- Joseph Moshier will be the production designer
- Directors
- Will Finn ("The Road to El Dorado") and John Sanford
Animators
- Tarzan's co-director Chris Buck was originally supervising the villain Slim,
- but was asked to switch characters with animator Dale Baer (The Lion King,
- The Emperor's New Groove) who had started working on Meg the cow, for the new
- directors didn't like Chris's work on Slim;
- Mark Henn (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan) will supervise Grace the cow
- Russ Edmonds (Tarzan, Atlantis) will work on the villain Rico and the Willies
- (Slim's nephews)
- Duncan Marjoribanks (The Little Mermaid, The Prince of Egypt) supervises
- Mrs. Calloway (a cow)
- Sandro Cleuzo (Anastasia, The Emperor's New Groove) oversees the sheriff and
- Jeb (the sullen goat)
- Mike Surrey works on Buck (the sheriff's horse)
- Bruce Smith (Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove on Pearl (the farm owner voiced
- by Sarah Jessica Parker)
Shawn Keller animation 'Lucky Jack'
Voices
- Jason Graae will play a cow
- Cuba Gooding Jr. voices a horse named Jake who
- joins the cows in their quest to save the farm.
- Sarah Jessica Parker voices the farmer woman
- Randy Quaid voices Slim, the villiam
- Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly and Roseanne will voice the three cows
- David Burnham will voice Willy. Willy is a cowboy who will
also sing at least some in the film.
- singer Gregory Jbara is envolved in the film too
- Other voices include Trisha Yearwood, Judi Dench and Ja'Net DuBois.
Plot
The farm, which is owned by a widow woman with a young daughter,
can't make the mortgage payments and is faced with eviction. Since the
cows don't want to be evicted, they decide that they must find a way to
raise the $1,000-or-so in back payments. So three dairy cows, led by Dame
Judi Dench, try to figure out how to earn that money. Then, the family
horse, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr., who used to have belong to a bounty
hunter, knows a great way to save the farm. The horse had heard that
in the nearby town that there's a bandit named Slim that is wanted
which has a $1000.00 bounty for his capture. So, the film then follows the
escapades that ensue, with Jake the Horse, helping the cows catch Slim.
Notes
February 9, 2002
Positive Buzz from Jim Hill on Home on the Range!
"The key to understanding Home on the Range is that it's supposed to be a comic western," explains Jim Hill. "More importantly, now that two of WDFA's sharper story guys--Will Finn & John Sanford--are actually riding herd on the thing (i.e. directing), Home on the Range has been turned into a BROADLY comic western. The in-house word on this particular project really is getting better, Olivier. I mean, now that Disney has so few real traditional animated features in its production pipeline, the studio has almost its entire A-Team either working on and/or consulting on Home on the Range. Even Chris Sander and Dean Deblois have recently put in some time on the project. Back in October, the Lilo & Stitch directing team was part of a brainstorming session, as WDFA looked for even more ways to 'plus' this production (i.e. make the film funnier, its story stronger). Trust me, Olivier. By November 2004, Home on the Range will be one funny film. Over the past seven years, this project has wandered a long way aways from its roots (Sweating Bullets' original, ambitious premise). But--when Home on the Range finally arrives at the multiplexes Thanksgiving-after-next--it's going to be one entertaining flick."
January 22, 2003
Bonnie Raitt To Sing for Home on the Range?
At the Animated Movies Forum, it was learned that Thomas Schumacher stated the following in a recent interview: "If you are an I-love-Lady and the Tramp, I-love-101 Dalmatians kind of person, like me; if you like talking animal movies when the animals step in when the human world fails them, and the colors are bright and the music is fun; that's what Home on the Range is. Home on the Range is an animated western musical set in the wild West with music by Alan Menken. Bonnie Raitt sings one of the opening songs, and K.D. Lang sings a song. It's set on a farm called the Little Patch of Heaven. Pearl is a lone woman farmer who loves her animals. She has pigs and ducks and geese--and they better hurry. She takes in animals from other farms that are being destroyed because a cattle rustler has stolen all the cows. We will celebrate our story of the western with the great hero of the West proving to be the dairy cows. And they're played by Jennifer Tilly, Roseanne Barr and Dame Judi Dench in her bovine debut."
October 4, 2002
Production Delayed on Home on the Range
Animagic reports that Disney is giving 6 more months to its production crew to complete (and redo part of) his new animated musical western. Production was originally expected to wrap up in late August, but now has a due date of February 2003. Home on the Range will be released in U.S. theaters in November 2003.
August 18, 2002 from animated-movies.com
"Home on the Range is now in post-production. This one rabbit character
that's cooking characters looked cute, but otherwise the characters look
old. The hero reminds me of [The Emperor's New Groove's] Kronk, overweight
with moustaches and brown and orange clothes. When he is away apparently,
the farm turns into a Broadway set from the 30s, with [Busby Berkeley-inspired
dance numbers] where dozens of cows dressed as co-stars perform synchronized
dance routines. The backgrounds look ugly and the movie's merchandising looks
even worse."
August 4, 2002
According to Animagic, the 2003 feature will wrap up production this month,
and is being criticized by insiders for overusing CGI shots in spite of
its 50s style.
According to DigfitalmediaFX forum on May 1, 2002
The 'Little Jack' hare, for example, is having more footage time now due to
changes made recently.
According to Animation Nation on April 30, 2002
Rumored that Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly and Roseanne will voice the three cows
in Disney's 2003 animated musical, the title of which might reportedly be changed
to Home on the Range.
Sweating Bullets Rumours according to Animagic on April 29, 2002
Talking about Disney's 2003 musical comeback, the animation studio is apparently
considering changing its feature title to Home on the Range, according the
Brazilian site Animagic. Also "more rework will be done by the Disney artists:
another character may have many scenes reanimated--all because the main character
is supposedly now voiced by comedy actress Roseanne."
Heard a rumor on October 8, 2001 that in the film there might be a group
telling the story as it evolves, much like the MUSES in Hercules.
This was in the June 13, 2001 Variety
"...But fans of all those lilting lions, humming hyenas and warbling warthogs
need not despair. Disney has a new musical animated feature -- this time a
western called ``Sweating Bullets'' -- up its sleeve for release in 2003.
``Is the musical coming back? Why yes. We've got musical cows,'' said
Schumacher."
As of November 3, 2000, Disney replaced co-director
Mike Gabriel, (POCAHONTAS co-director) and director Mike
Giamo (POCAHONTAS art director) with Will Finn
(lead animator on Cogsworth in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
and director of DreamWorks' THE ROAD TO EL DORADO).
and John Sanford
This is the project that has been
keeping Mike Gabriel and Mike Giamo
busy since Pocahontas. It has been
in development since Pocahntas ended,
but it's STILL pretty early in
development. The characters apparently
look very strange. The cowboys will
not drink, smoke, cuss, or carry
guns.
Sweatin' Bullets has animated cowboys.
Early delelopment of these cowboys have
been said to look really cool.
Co-directed by Pocahontas' Mike Gabriel.
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