Bird to make live-action feature

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After numerous awards and accolades for Brad Bird’s two Pixar features (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), he is now going the live-action route for his next project 1906.

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the feature will be a co-production between Warner Bros. and Disney/Pixar, with the historical San Francisco earthquake as its backdrop.

The story centers on a college student who begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.

Bird is rewriting the original John Logan script.

“1906” will mark a return for Bird to the studio that released his 1999 2-D-animated film “The Iron Giant.” The movie was critically acclaimed though failed to muster much muscle at the box office, causing some to suggest that Warner Bros. had failed to market the film aggressively enough.

Bird is no stranger when it comes to live-action as he directed one of the episodes for “Amazing Stories” in 1987.

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