homeward bound the incredible journey 1993

'That could be cosmic,' Tippett recalls Verhoeven saying. And I said, 'Well I have an idea for a movie about dinosaurs.'' Verhoeven was instantly excited. 'We're sitting in this stairwell and everybody started bitching about how there were no good movies made anymore. 'We were doing the scene where ED-209 falls down the stairs,' Tippett tells SYFY WIRE. The idea for Dinosaur started way back in 1986 on the set of the ultra-violent RoboCop between director Paul Verhoeven and visual effects producer and animator Phil Tippett. And while it may not be remembered 20 years later and was a production plagued by difficulties, it was also one of the most important movies Disney had released at the time - for better or worse. While it wound up being a sizable hit for the studio, the stakes could not have been higher for Dinosaur. When Dinosaur finally opened in theaters on May 19, 2000, audiences were treated to a very different movie, full of cutesy characters and a familiar story. The prologue was also frightfully misleading. The fact that it was promoting a movie being released next summer was almost beside the point this was a breathless blast on its own, with all the drama and emotion and raw power of the best Disney had to offer. It followed a dinosaur egg as it careened through an unforgiving primeval landscape while accompanied by soaring, Lion King-esque music (intentionally so - as the song featured Lion King vocalist Lebo M) and some truly stunning visuals. If you saw Toy Story 2 when it opened theatrically in the winter of 1999 or owned a copy of Tarzan after its home video release in early 2000, you probably still remember it - a wordless, five-minute-long prologue that played before the film.

Homeward bound the incredible journey 1993