Age: 68
male
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
Following the energy shock caused by Thanos' Blip, a new race of more evolved humans called "mutants" officially appears. Public opinion then begins to rise against them, fearing that they seek to dominate humanity, particularly because of the recent events involving Wanda Maximoff whose mutant nature has been exposed. Charles Xavier, one of the first mutants whose telepathic powers had manifested since childhood, uses Cerebro to find and recruit mutants in his Westchester mansion that he has been trying to open, in vain so far. He recruits Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake, Ororo Munroe and Kurt Wagner to help them master their powers. Meanwhile, an old friend of Xavier's, Erik Lensherr returns to the outside world after several decades spent in his lair on M Island. Having heard of the new wave of mutants that has spread throughout the world, Erik also recruits other mutants to create his brotherhood composed of Mystique, Toad, Pyro and the Blob. In order to overcome the mutant problem, the government calls on the services of Dr. Bolivar Trask who creates a new series of robots inspired by Stark Industries technology : the Sentinels, designed to target and track mutants.
