For the first time ever, Pixar will release two feature films in one year. The first one is Pete Docter's Inside Out, which will be in theaters on June 19. The second one is The Good Dinosaur, which is directed by Peter Sohn. The short film to play before The Good Dinosaur was revealed today by The LA Times, and it is titled Sanjay's Super Team.
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| Concept Art from Sanjay's Super Team |
The short film is directed by Sanjay Patel, an animator who has worked at Pixar since 1996 (his first film was A Bug's Life). Sanjay's Super Team is inspired by his real life experiences growing up with cartoons and comic books, while observing daily Hindu prayers and rituals with his father. Patel explains "My parents' whole world revolved around their gods, the Hindu deities. Our worlds were diametrically apart. I just wanted my name to be Travis, not Sanjay." This conflict was the influence for Sanjay's Super Team.
The seven-minute short begins with young Sanjay watching cartoons and eating cereal in a bland, beige room as his father jingles a bell, beckoning him to join in meditation. Reluctant and bored by the ceremony, Sanjay begins daydreaming a kind of ancient, Hindu version of The Avengers, with the gods appearing like superheroes. As the daydream progresses, the color, light and animation of the film grows increasingly dazzling and cosmic, and Sanjay grows closer to understanding his father's inner world.
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| Sanjay Patel, Director of Sanjay's Super Team |
Sanjay's Super Team is produced Nicole Paradis Grindle (associate producer of Toy Story 3 and Monsters University), and the score is by Mychael Danna (composer for Life of Pi). The short film will premier this year at the Annecy Film Festival and play in theaters on November 25 in front of The Good Dinosaur.
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