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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
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A few months after the cosmic cloud incident in space, Reed Richards [JOHN KRASINSKI], Sue Storm [EMILY BLUNT], Ben Grimm [JENSEN ACKLES OR LIEV SCHREIBER] and Johnny Storm [*ZAC EFRON* OR DACRE MONTGOMERY] are now established Superheroes on Earth, called The Fantastic Four. Enter Harvey Elder, an American nuclear engineer and explorer, he is socially shunned due to his abrasive personality and unnerving appearance. Moving away to live in the sewers and taking the name 'Mole Man', Elder soon creates a legion of beings he calls 'Moloids', as hordes of terrible monsters in which he commands to do his bidding. It's up to the Fantastic Four to destroy these mindless creatures and defeat the Mole Man. Post Credit Scene: Stage magician, Joshua Ayers or 'The Miracle Man', is doing a trick for an audience. When audience members start to leave, Ayers begins lashing out, leading to a few people to be taken to hospital. A gas of smoke appears where 'Miracle Man' disappears. End Credit Scene: Reed and his old science friend from his first job, Victor Von Doom [MICHAEL FASSBENDER] meet up for a beer. Victor asks Reed how is he so relaxed having powers. He explains to Vic that his team just learnt to adjust and started to view their abilities as gifts rather than curses. Reed get a call from Tony Stark and leaves. Vic slowly hovers his hand over his bottle making it float, he than drops it and laughs, leaving the bar. As the camera focuses on his hand glowing green. PHASE 3 MOVIE 4
