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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 14: As Guillermo del Toro readies his long-in-the-works "Pinocchio," Ed Catmull gets ready to retire

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor and Jim Hill start off these week's podcast off by discussing the stop motion version of "Pinocchio" that Guillermo del Toro is now prepping for Netflix. Then it's how Hollywood is commemorating the 20th and 25th anniversaries of DreamWorks Animation's "The Prince of Egypt" and "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas." Finally, Drew and Jim talk about why Ed Catmull's legacy -- when it comes to animation -- is complicated, to say the least. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If a small flock of cartoon bluebirds didn't help you get dressed this morning,

0:05.0

that just means you haven't yet listened to.

0:08.0

Fine-tuning with Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

0:12.0

No, the black dress. Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

0:16.0

No, the black dress slacks please.

0:19.0

Thank you.

0:22.0

And now, Jim Hill.

0:28.0

Welcome to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary. I'm Drew's co-host entertainment writer Jim Hill and when Drew and I were sketching out this

0:35.4

week's show we would start with Pinocchio that's right Drew or yeah yeah I mean

0:39.9

that was until yesterday that was the biggest animation news of the week.

0:43.0

Makes sense? I mean, here's Garmal Dittoro with his Pinocchio, his passion project that he's been trying to get made for years.

0:51.0

And so here we are, we're preppingpping that and then this itty bitty teeny tiny

0:55.4

tiny piece of news breaks about Ed Catmull who for those of you don't know

1:01.3

basically the Uber Meister now that John Lasseter is left.

1:06.6

Well, John Lasseter is still in the process, officially, of leaving Pixar and Disney. But to have had Catmull announced that he's retiring,

1:17.2

this is really End of an era stuff.

1:19.2

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

1:20.8

I think we're going to get into it a little bit more later but it's it's interesting because his legacy in many ways is going to be just as complicated as as Mr. Lasseter's when he leaves yeah.

1:31.3

All right so let's let's hold off on that,

1:33.4

let's kick out the second half of the show,

1:34.9

but to jump right into it again again.

1:37.5

So here we are, Germo after all these years,

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