The film reached theaters in March 2007, but raised only 170 million dollars. It was not enough
Sometimes we undervalue Disney’s filmography. The study is not only the creator of multimillionaires as Frozen, Rapunzel o Vaianais also the house of dozens of animation stories for all tastes that can sometimes fail at the box office despite their good ideas. And many times we don’t remember them.
For example, remember Discovering Robinsons? It is a film that premiered in March 2007 and that, despite having acceptable criticisms, did not have a good reception in movie theaters. Now it is time to claim it.
Abandoned at the door of an orphanage at birth, The young Lewis is 12 years old and desperately seeks to be adopted by a new family. As it is a skilled inventor, he decides to design a machine that allows him to find his mother, but when he participates in the science contest of his school, a strange character with a mustache and fungus hat steals his invention.
Lewis then receives an unexpected visit from a young man just old than him, called Wilbur, who asks for help and offers to take him … to the future. What will the teenager do? Well, join the adventure.
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The idea was born from a personal story by Stephen Anderson, a cartoonist of ‘storyboards’ who ended up being the director of the film. Anderson, like the protagonist of the film, grew orphan and was adopted. The study began to work with this idea in 2002, inspired by The incredible ones And looking for the aesthetics of the 50 of movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella o Peter Pan.
The elaboration process was complicated, since in the middle of the Disney production bought Pixar and John Lasseter became creative director of both companies. When Lasseter saw a projection of the tape, he suggested some changes and, as a result, Anderson’s team had to change around 60% of the initial idea.
We assume that the suggestions were good, because Discovering Robinsons He reaped good comments from critics and spectators, although there were several detractors that possibly influenced their bad box office results. The tape cost 150 million dollars and only reaped 170. A failure for the company just when it was at the center of the spectators. Disney had gone through a bad streak and sought to be what it was before. When discovering the Robinson he arrived at theaters in 2007 he failed to attract the public to the rooms but did helped the study carry out his particular rebirth. A few years later Rapunzel and Frozen would arrive, so it can be said that, at least, he said the way.
