Watching the trailer for “Strange World,” the latest film from Disney animation, it’s easy to get a Jules Verne vibe. And according to director Don Hall, that’s entirely on purpose.
Hall said recently that when he was first imagining the look of the new sci-fi fantasy film, he looked immediately to the quintessential turn-of-the-century adventure story for inspiration.
“‘Mysterious Island’ and ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ and some of these just very early adventure stories, [I] kind of Immersed myself in them,” he said of his research for the film. However, he didn’t stop there, drawing more modern inspiration for the film as well, adding he wanted to see how adventure stories grew and changed through the 20th century, “all the way through ‘King Kong,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (and) ‘Star Wars’ essentially, the movies that I grew up with in the 70s and 80s that made me want to make movies.
