Age: 68
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Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.
This live action remake of the hit musical will have elements from the original movie and the Broadway show. In the kingdom of Arendelle, two sisters, who live in the castle, have been living in isolation from the citizens and each other while growing up. Young Anna is fun-seeking while older sister Elsa is hiding something from everyone. As young adults, Elsa and Anna open the gates inviting everyone to see Elsa's coronation as Queen of Arendelle. After Anna meets a seemingly friendly handsome prince and asks Elsa for a marriage blessing, they get into an argument which causes Elsa's anxiety to accidentally reveal that she has ICE POWERS! While running away, her power causes all of Arendelle to get covered in snow with temperatures dropping gradually. Anna sets out to find Elsa and set things right, with help from a mountain man ice salesman named Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and a talking snowman named Olaf.
