Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Deirdre Molumby and Graham Day, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, we’re finishing up a season focusing on the work of one particular director: Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland: A World Beyond.
As a young boy, Frank Walker discovered a secret society of geniuses who lived apart from the rest of the world in the hopes of creating a better tomorrow. However, Frank was soon cast out, and found himself increasingly disillusioned with the future. At the same time, a young woman named Casey Newton finds herself drawn back into this web of secrets and possibilities. Can Frank and Casey save the world? And Tomorrowland?
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 28th November 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Damon Lindelof talks to The Los Angeles Times about the development of Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- Jeff Jenson talks to Disney.com about how Tomorrowland came together, May 2015.
- Debra Kaufman at Reuters reports on Brad Bird’s plans to make 1906 after Ratatouille, November 2007.
- Brad Bird talks to Total Film about wanting to make 1906, April 2011.
- Brad Bird talks to IndieWire about planning to direct 1906 after Ghost Protocol, December 2011.
- Amy Graff at The San Francisco Gate Chronicle writes about Pixar’s ties to San Francisco, July 2016.
- Brad Bird discusses plans to develop 1906 as both an event series and a feature film with Collider, June 2018.
- Brad Bird talks to The Hollywood Reporter on turning down the invitation to direct Star Wars, May 2013.
- Maureen Dowd at The New York Times reports on how Brad Bird gave Colin Trevorrow his launch, November 2015.
- Peter Sciretta at /film considers how Brad Bird was responsible for Colin Trevorrow directing Jurassic World Dominion, April 2015.
- Brad Bird talks to The New York Times about the inspiration for Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- Brad Bird talks to IGN about the challenges of making and marketing Tomorrowland, October 2015.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers Disney’s attempts to court a young male audience with movies like Atlantis and Treasure Planet, November 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers TRON: Legacy as “a Disney princess movie aimed at boys”, August 2020.
- Karla Rodriguez at Complex reports on the controversies and accusations around Armie Hammer, December 2021.
- Brooks Barnes at The New York Times reports on the box office disappointment of Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- Rodrigo Perez at IndieWire reports on the cancellation of the third TRON movie following the release of Tomorrowland, May 2019.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek considers how the box office performance of Tomorrowland led to the cancellation of a third TRON movie, January 2018.
- Kayleigh Donaldson at Syfy Wire looks back on The Jungle Book as the first Disney live-action remake, December 2019.
- Erica Gonzales at Harper Bazaar reports on the role that Beyoncé was offered in the Beauty and the Beast remake, October 2017.
- Jack Cunliffe at The Film Stage reports on Walter Murch joining Tomorrowland, August 2013.
- Walter Murch talks to Web of Stories about being fired from Tomorrowland, September 2017.
- George Calhoun at Forbes reports on the Chinese philosophy of “kill the chicken to scare the monkey”, February 2021.
- Joss Whedon talks to Empire about the challenges he faced making Age of Ultron with Disney, May 2015.
- James Whitbrook at Gizmodo looks back on the original plans for the third Captain America movie, August 2016.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how the Marvel Cinematic Universe is more improvised than people assume, May 2022.
- Deirdre Molumby talks to Podcast 616 about She-Hulk, October 2022.
- Emilia Clarke talks to Vanity Fair about making Terminator: Genisys, May 2018.
- Darren Mooney considers the legacy and impact of Terminator: Genisys at The Escapist, June 2020.
- Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter discusses the “blame game” around the release of Fant4stic, August 2015.
- Josh Trank talks to Polygon about his experiences making Fant4stic, May 2020.
- Al Horner at The Guardian argues for Tomorrowland as a misunderstood masterpiece, April 2021.
- Matt Looker at Total Film contends that Tomorrowland is “criminally underrated”, August 2016.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek reports on how the box office failure of John Carter, The Lone Ranger and Tomorrowland shaped Disney’s model of film production, May 2019.
- Simon Brew at Film Stories considers the box-office-ification of movie discourse, October 2019.
- Siobhan O’Connor at Time considers “the golden age of childhood”, September 2017.
- James Abbott at The Epoch Times argues that America was hostile to the optimism of Tomorrowland, June 2015.
- Charlie Jane Anders at Gizmodo considers the nostalgia that underpins the optimism of Tomorrowland, June 2015.
- Adam Rogers at Wired reflects on the nostalgia of Tomorrowland, April 2015.
- Edward Denison at The Guardian considers the history of futurism as an artistic movement, April 2015.
- Rose Eveleth at Wired considers the ties between futurism and the emergence of fascism, April 2019.
- Barry Hertz at The Globe and Mail considers the Objectivism of Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- The Walt Disney Museum considers the history of Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland, July 2015.
- Petrana Radulovic at Polygon considers the “Carousel of Progress” in Tomorrowland at Disney World, October 2020.
- Brian Delpozo at All Ears considers the stagnation of Tomorrowland at the Disney theme parks, July 2021.
- Alex Krieger at The Conversation considers Walt Disney’s original plans for EPCOT, September 2021.
- The Economist considers the irony of the nostalgia that informs Disney’s “city of the future“, December 2016.
- Rebecca Pahle at Pajiba considers the creepiness of the relationship between Frank and Athena in Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- George Clooney talks to Reuters about the relationship between Frank and Athena in Tomorrowland, May 2015.
- Brad Bird talks to USA Today about the characterisation of Athena in Tomorrowland, October 2015.
- Brad Bird talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his complicated relationship to Hollywood’s fixation on sequels, Octoebr 2015.
- Brad Bird explains to JOE.ie why there is no “the” in the title of Incredibles 2, July 2018.
- Kathleen Elkins at CNBC considers the financial success of George Clooney’s tequila company, June 2017.
- Elisabeth Sherman at Food & Wine considers how George Clooney’s tequila business may have been a model for Dwayne Johnson, April 2018.
- George Clooney talks to The Guardian about using the money he makes from endorsements to fund activism, July 2013.
- Elizabeth Alsop at The Atlantic observes that prestige television wallows in cynicism and nihilism, July 2015.
- Sophie Gilbert at The Atlantic considers the grittiness of the recent Perry Mason reboot, June 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the optimism of Mad Max: Fury Road, March 2020.
- The Lexington Libertarian argues that Tomorrowland is “a horrible socialist movie”, June 2015.
- Justin Charity at The Ringer considers the disillusionment that marked the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, January 2017.
- David Brooks at The Atlantic considers the “tattered optimism” of Barack Obama, November 2020.
- Kevin Courrier at Critics at Large considers the end of the Obama era in popular cinema, January 2017.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers Phase 4 as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s midlife crisis, July 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown up with its audience, November 2022.
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