I swear I’m the only person who’s pointed this out so far, but that new movie they’re making, Strange World, is literally just a massive ripoff of Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition. Everything from the creature designs to the premise to even the color palettes are uncannily similar to the book in question. What’s the premise you ask?
Basically a flying spaceship of sorts is sent to record and study the life on a planet known as Darwin IV; Meanwhile Strange World has a bunch of characters in a flying spaceship seemingly studying/recording the alien life that is strikingly similar to Darwin IV’s.
The whole book is essentially an exploration on what actual alien life would look like, and while fantastical in nature is still grounded in reality. There was a TV special for it that aired many years back called Alien Planet.
To give you an idea of what I mean, here’s some screenshots I took compared to illustrations from the book (sorry for the lack of spoilers, currently on mobile and also a newfag)
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There’s some other creatures that are harder to make out in the trailer, but they resemble creatures featured in Expedition.
There’s absolutely no way this was just a coincidence, “heavily inspired“ be damned. Not to mention Expedition is kind of an obscure book already, so it‘d be easy for them to get away with it. At the very least I hope they credit Barlowe if this is the case (although they probably won’t either way).
I was finally happy to see something fresh out of Disney, but I honestly shouldn’t have expected anything less.
(Edit: Picture files are acting retarded for some reason. Sorry about that, I’m not sure how to fix it. At the moment you can click and download the pictures via the links but that’s about it.)