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Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
After the Fantastic Four's transformation, Victor von Doom has spent years studying the mysterious Negative Matter that gave him and the Four their powers. Believing it to be the source of his cosmic abilities, Victor has never realized the truth: the Negative Matter inside him is keeping him alive, and his powers are slowly killing him. Now running out of it, Doom returns to Latveria and begins constructing a massive particle accelerator capable of generating enough energy to tear open a doorway into the Negative Zone. In New York, Reed Richards meets Tony Stark, who seeks his help developing a new generation of Arc Reactor technology. Meanwhile, the Four's lives continue alongside Willie Lumpkin, Alicia Masters and Wyatt Wingfoot. When Reed detects massive energy consumption and strange electromagnetic, gravitational and seismic disturbances originating from Latveria, the team investigates. They soon discover Doom's accelerator and realize its purpose: he intends to force his way into the Negative Zone, where he can obtain the Negative Matter necessary to survive. The Fantastic Four travel to Latveria, hoping to stop Victor and reason with him. They fight through his labyrinth, Royal Guard and armies of Doom Bots, but ultimately fail. The accelerator reaches full power and tears open the Negative Zone, nearly destroying Earth. Doom's foresight saves the planet when a built-in failsafe destroys the machine and closes the doorway. But Doom's victory is not what it seems. As he confronts Reed, the doorway suddenly reopens. Bentley Wittman emerges, transformed into the Maker, the enforcer of Annihilus, ruler of the Negative Zone. Wittman reveals that Doom's experiment has shattered the dimensional barrier that once imprisoned Annihilus. Earth is now accessible to him, and Annihilus intends to make it an extension of the Negative Zone. The Fantastic Four have failed to stop Doom—and unleashed something far worse.
