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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
Cuando era un bebé, Kal-El es enviado a la Tierra desde un Krypton agonizante por sus padres Jor-El y Lara. Su nave aterriza en Kansas, donde es adoptado por Jonathan y Martha Kent y criado como Clark Kent. Ya adolescente en Smallville, Clark es un chico reservado, aficionado al periodismo y enamorado en secreto de su amiga de la infancia, Lana Lang. Víctima de las burlas escolares, siempre se sintió distinto, pero sus poderes apenas comienzan a manifestarse poco antes de la repentina muerte de Jonathan Kent. Clark descubre entonces la Fortaleza de la Soledad y los primeros indicios de su herencia kryptoniana. En paralelo, Smallville atrae al brillante científico John Corben, experto en energías exóticas, obsesionado con los meteoritos verdes caídos la misma noche en que llegó Clark. Para el joven, Corben se convierte en un modelo a seguir y en alguien que le demuestra que no está solo. Pero la muerte de Jonathan lo impulsa a usar sus habilidades emergentes para ayudar a los demás, adoptando por primera vez el símbolo kryptoniano de la esperanza: la “S”. Corben, cada vez más obsesionado, descubre el poder colosal de la kryptonita y sospecha que Clark no es del todo humano. En un experimento arriesgado, fusiona su cuerpo con el mineral, quedando desfigurado y condenado a depender de él: nace Metallo, un arma viviente que considera a Superman una amenaza.
