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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
Brad Bird
Director
for Director in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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*This is a re-imagining of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, keeping only the preexisting titles, and some character names, though even those names may be reworked. Enjoy! Thirty+ years after the destruction of the second Death Star, and twenty-five years after the final battle of the Empire, the galaxy is now ruled over by the New Republic. Han and Leia Solo serve as heads of the new government, C3P0, R2D2 and Lando Calrissian as ambassadors, and Luke Skywalker as the head of the New Jedi Order. But something went wrong. Twelve years prior, the son of Han and Leia turned to the Darkside at the hands of a new and dark force. Luke, desperate to save their son, dispersed the new Jedi order across the galaxy in hopes of finding the new leader of the Sith Order. But when Luke learns the truth, he is so horrified, he goes into self-imposed exile. Now, in the present, the Force has gone into overload, and everyone and anyone who is even slightly Force-sensitive becomes very powerful in their abilities. Desperate for answers, Rey (Han and Leia's younger daughter), goes out in search with a small group of misfits, hoping to find Luke and put a stop to everything before a new Galactic Civil War breaks out.
