Talk:Don Bluth

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Contents 1 New article for Don Bluth Productions 2 WP:1.0 3 Rapunzel?? 4 Mr. Bluth's retirement

[edit] New article for Don Bluth Productions

Any objections to moving most of the info from "Career" to a new article about Don Bluth Productions? Most of that info applies to his production company and not him personally. — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:18, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

It's fine with me. Copperchair 5 July 2005 06:53 (UTC)

Ditto. -- user:zanimum

I dont know what the author means when he says that Don Bluth animation is more 'lively' than Disney animation, or that his films contain a mystical quality about them. If these were significant quotes from critics and commenters, they'd be okay, but they sound more like an appreciative fan than a concise description of the man and his work.

Can someone do a fact check on the Trivia? Someone put in that Don Bluth was HIV positive. I can't find any other reference to that on the internet.

I highly doubt a Mormon would be HIV postive -- CaptainAmerica 22:32, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. After all, everybody knows that Mormons have no blood and their immune systems are nothing like a normal human's. And since no Morman ever visited a hospital befor the 1990s, there is no possible way a Mormon could contract HIV. (By the way, this is sarcasm) 66.217.132.85 22:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Even though it is sarcasm, I think you have the Mormons confused with the Jehovah's Witnesses or a similar religion. Mormons have never had problems with hospitals, doctors or antything else of the ilk. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 04:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 should be mentioned after Robin hood regarding his work with disney.

[edit] WP:1.0

Bluth was one of the most influential animators of all time. Shouldn't we improve his page for the next CD Selection soon? (Also a high-priority asset for WP:US-TOON, which is being revived as of typing this.) --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 21:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rapunzel??

I noticed on Don Bluth's template a Rapunzel movie's in the works. Is this true and if so, where's the source information? Movingimage 12:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I wonder that too. According to the article on Barry Manilow he (Manilow) was contracted to write the score for three Bluth films (The Pebble and the Penguin and Thumbelina we already know, and supposedly one for Rapunzel), but the Dublin studio went belly-up after Pebble, so may have been a project that never came to fruition. I can find no evidence that a Bluth-led Rapunzel animated movie is in development now (there's a 1994 press release[1] suggesting the film will be released in 1995 but that clearly has not happened), so I'm removing it from the template per WP:NOT#CRYSTALBALL. There is a more exhaustive discussion of this on Talk:Rapunzel (film)#The Other Rapunzel (Bluth) - Disney are working on a Rapunzel film, but it's nothing to do with Bluth, nor is there any evidence to suggest he will be working on a version of his own. On a related note the music video for Scissor Sisters' single Mary has a Rapunzel-like sequence in it that Bluth did direct. Could this be the source of confusion? ~Matticus ^T_C 10:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Bluth's retirement

I don't know who said that Bluth was trying to find a funding for a "Dragon's Lair" movie, but that info is severely false. I know someone who personally knows Don Bluth, and he says that he really is retired for good. Right now, he's directing plays and doing stuff for younger people like that. He's no longer doing movies, especially since 2D animation is a thing of the past now. I suggest you contribute to directors who are still active.