Brad Bird Directing Disney's 1952
Thu, May 3, 2012 
Indeed he did what appeared to be impossible. He made Ethan Hunt cool again. But since then Brad Bird has been keeping low. No doubt mulling through offers and carefully deciding what his next move will be, as a two-time Oscar winning animation director turned live-action director.
"TOLDJA" is here to say Bird has made his decision. The Pixar alum will direct 1952 for Disney from a script by Damon Lindelof, who's connected to Bird in a six-degrees of J.J. Abrams way. No details are known at this time regarding the plot save for it being a "big scale tent pole film" and presumably set in 1952. Unless the title's ironic and it's actually set in the not too distant future.
Nothing to get excited about save for Bird getting back behind the camera sooner rather than later.
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