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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
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Clark Kent works as an unnoticed stringer at the Daily Planet while quietly tracking a wave of “miracles” reshaping Metropolis—feats Lex Luthor publicly claims as proof of his own genius. Clark’s investigation exposes Luthor’s hidden agenda: Project Steel, a cybernetic soldier built from John Corben and powered by a mysterious green mineral recovered from a Smallville crater. When Corben becomes Metallo, the unstable energy source twists him into a walking weapon who nearly ends Clark’s life. Forced into the open, Clark embraces the symbol he’s been afraid to become, drawing strength from both his Kryptonian legacy and the values instilled by the Kents. As Metallo rampages and Luthor unleashes drone forces to maintain control, Clark inspires Metropolis to resist fear and reclaim their city. Amid the chaos, a LexCorp janitor transformed into the ravenous Parasite becomes another pawn in Luthor’s schemes, adding to the threat. Clark ultimately proves himself a true guardian of tomorrow—one defined not by power, but by hope. Post‑Credits: Deep within a sealed S.T.A.R. Labs vault, the containment cube that once held the green mineral begins to pulse with an eerie ping. Dr. Silas Stone observes the readings and notes the energy signature matches a signal originating from far beyond Earth, hinting at a looming cosmic arrival.
