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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 Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2026)
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Clark Kent begins his life as Superman, splitting time between daring rescues and bumbling Daily Planet reporting. The world marvels at his power yet whispers of invasion and false gods. Lex Luthor seizes the paranoia, branding himself humanity's true protector while secretly developing kryptonite weapons through Project Cadmus. His crowning creation is Metallo, a wounded war hero transformed into a cyborg built to rival Superman. Their clash tears through Metropolis in a battle broadcast across the globe, fueling the very fears Lex has stoked. Kryptonite nearly breaks Clark, but his refusal to kill--even when victory seems impossible--turns the tide. Instead of destroying Metallo, he saves him, providing he is neither God nor weapon, but a man choosing compassion over conquest. Though the city breathes easier, Lex emerges untarnished, celebrated as Metropolis' visionary leader. Lois Lane, however, grows suspicious, quietly collecting evidence that Lex's hand was in every shadow. Post Credits: In a stark laboratory, Lex seals the glowing kryptonite rock in a containment case stamped with the LexCorp logo. The camera drifts across a wall of projects — files labeled "Cadmus," "Metallo," and "AMAZO Prototype." It lingers on a faded photo of a crashed spacecraft, marked 'Recovered: Smallville, 1980s.'
