Inspired by the animated short film Pigeon: Impossible, by Lucas Martell, Spies in Disguise is about super-suave spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith), who has to team up with almost the opposite of him, super-unsmooth scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland), who creates the gadgets Lance uses on his missions. When events take an unexpected turn and Lance becomes a pigeon, the spy must trust and team up with Walter to complete an impossible mission.
The film is directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, who are no amateurs when it comes to animated films. Bruno is known for working Rio, Rio 2, Epic ...
The film is directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, who are no amateurs when it comes to animated films. Bruno is known for working Rio, Rio 2, Epic ...
- 12/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Fox Animation, Chernin Entertainment, and Blue Sky Studios have announced a new animated comedy called Spies in Disguise and they've cast Will Smith and Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming) in the lead roles. They also have offered a couple images giving us a first look at their characters. Here's the synopsis:
Set in the high octane globe-trotting world of international espionage, Will Smith (Men in Black) voices Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, saving the world is his occupation. And nobody does it better. Almost the exact opposite of Lance is Walter, voiced by Tom Holland. Walter is a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the gadgets Lance uses on his missions.But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and...
Set in the high octane globe-trotting world of international espionage, Will Smith (Men in Black) voices Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, saving the world is his occupation. And nobody does it better. Almost the exact opposite of Lance is Walter, voiced by Tom Holland. Walter is a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the gadgets Lance uses on his missions.But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and...
- 10/10/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Photo Credit: Blue Sky Studios.
Fox Animation, Chernin Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios have announced the voice casting for their upcoming animated film Spies In Disguise.
Spies In Disguise is a buddy comedy set in the high octane globe-trotting world of international espionage. Will Smith (Men in Black) voices Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, saving the world is his occupation. And nobody does it better.
Almost the exact opposite of Lance is Walter, voiced by Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming). Walter is a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the gadgets Lance uses on his missions.
But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if...
Fox Animation, Chernin Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios have announced the voice casting for their upcoming animated film Spies In Disguise.
Spies In Disguise is a buddy comedy set in the high octane globe-trotting world of international espionage. Will Smith (Men in Black) voices Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, saving the world is his occupation. And nobody does it better.
Almost the exact opposite of Lance is Walter, voiced by Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming). Walter is a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the gadgets Lance uses on his missions.
But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if...
- 10/9/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Based on the original animated short Pigeon: Impossible
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- 10/9/2017
- by Spencer Perry
- Comingsoon.net
Will Smith and Tom Holland will voice the lead characters in animated film Spies in Disguise, from Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios and Chernin Entertainment. The pic, based on Lucas Martell’s original short Pigeon: Impossible, is set in the high-octane, globe-trotting world of international espionage. Smith will voice the super-killed spy Lance Sterling, and Holland is Walter, a scientific genius who invents the gadgets Lance uses on his missions. When events take an…...
- 10/9/2017
- Deadline
Will Smith and Tom Holland are set to star in a new animated feature, Spies in Disguise.
The project, based on an original animated short, Pigeon: Impossible, comes from Fox Animation, Blue Sky and Chernin Entertainment and is described as an odd-couple comedy.
In the pic, Smith will voice Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, Sterling's occupation is saving the world. Holland will play Walter, a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills, though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the...
The project, based on an original animated short, Pigeon: Impossible, comes from Fox Animation, Blue Sky and Chernin Entertainment and is described as an odd-couple comedy.
In the pic, Smith will voice Lance Sterling, the world’s most awesome spy. Cool, charming and super-skilled, Sterling's occupation is saving the world. Holland will play Walter, a great mind but perhaps not a great socializer. What he lacks in social skills, though, he makes up for in smarts and invention: Walter is the scientific genius who invents the...
- 10/9/2017
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Austin Film Festival has compiled a slate of short films for "An Evening of Texas Shorts" as part of their 20th anniversary celebration. This Wednesday evening at the Texas Spirit Theatre of the Bob Bullock State History Museum, 11 shorts with Texas ties from past AFFs will be shown (tickets are $5, free for Aff members).
In the program:
Some Analog Lines (2006), David Lowery
An essay film about technology. Lowery's buzzworthy feature Ain't Them Bodies Saints comes out later in August.
The Significant Other (1994), Tassos Rigopoulos
A single woman's friends bug her about finding a guy. Filmed at an Amy's Ice Creams (it looks like it's the original Guadalupe location) in 1993 and shot on 16mm.
Oh My God (2004), John Bryant
Looks like this one is a very dark comedy. Jette says, "I had to watch it peeking between my fingers over my eyes, but it was hilarious." The short also screened at Sundance Film Festival.
In the program:
Some Analog Lines (2006), David Lowery
An essay film about technology. Lowery's buzzworthy feature Ain't Them Bodies Saints comes out later in August.
The Significant Other (1994), Tassos Rigopoulos
A single woman's friends bug her about finding a guy. Filmed at an Amy's Ice Creams (it looks like it's the original Guadalupe location) in 1993 and shot on 16mm.
Oh My God (2004), John Bryant
Looks like this one is a very dark comedy. Jette says, "I had to watch it peeking between my fingers over my eyes, but it was hilarious." The short also screened at Sundance Film Festival.
- 8/13/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
Here is a sweet short film from our friends at Fim School Rejects called Pigeon: Impossible. The video was directed by Lucas Martell and was first released in 2009 at the Austin Film Festival. If you get a kick out of bird-related comedy, you will love this film. Check it out below and share your thoughts.
If you have not seen Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, you owe it to yourself to see it in theaters. What are your thoughts?
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If you have not seen Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, you owe it to yourself to see it in theaters. What are your thoughts?
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Source: Fsr (http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/short-film-of-the-day-pigeon-impossible.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FilmSchoolRejects+%28Film+School+Rejects%29)...
- 1/12/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Why Watch? Because Guest Week continues here on Short Film of the Day, and I’m picking a bunch of silly animated shorts that Cole would almost never touch. Perhaps he’s got a thing for the real world. Perhaps I’ve got a child’s mind. Either way, we’re featuring a lot of fun shorts this week. Today’s short is one that will be familiar to anyone who’s been reading Film School Rejects for several years, as I wrote about it way back in 2009 when it played the Austin Film Festival. Lucas Martell’s Pigeon: Impossible is part spy story, part bird-related comedy and all smooth animated bliss. It’s the tale of Walter, a rather green secret agent who must learn on the fly when a curious pigeon ends up in his multi-million dollar nuclear briefcase. It’s a short that took 5 years to make, but...
- 1/11/2012
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Austin film news has been cropping up all week, getting bigger and better as the week progresses. Here are the highlights:
The biggest news: SXSW Film just announced a half-dozen more titles for this year's festival (two months away!) -- no Austin connections (update! see comments below) but certainly all interesting. Jodie Foster's movie The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson and scripted by Austinite Kyle Killen, will have its world premiere, as will Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, a documentary about the comedian's tour during his recent break from television; Ti West's latest movie, The Innkeepers, about amateur ghost hunters trying to prove a hotel is haunted; It's About You, a documentary on John Mellencamp; and Square Grouper, a movie set in the 1970s about pot smuggling in Miami. The latest movie from Greg Mottola (Adventureland) will also be shown at SXSW -- Paul, a movie about a hitchhiking alien,...
The biggest news: SXSW Film just announced a half-dozen more titles for this year's festival (two months away!) -- no Austin connections (update! see comments below) but certainly all interesting. Jodie Foster's movie The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson and scripted by Austinite Kyle Killen, will have its world premiere, as will Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, a documentary about the comedian's tour during his recent break from television; Ti West's latest movie, The Innkeepers, about amateur ghost hunters trying to prove a hotel is haunted; It's About You, a documentary on John Mellencamp; and Square Grouper, a movie set in the 1970s about pot smuggling in Miami. The latest movie from Greg Mottola (Adventureland) will also be shown at SXSW -- Paul, a movie about a hitchhiking alien,...
- 1/14/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
From attention-grabbing promos to thoughtful documentaries, a new crop of directors is creating innovative and daring pictures that are cheap to make, easy to share, and finding an audience as never before. Here, we speak to those responsible for some of the best
Are we in the middle of a short‑film revolution? Not long ago, if you wanted to catch short work by exciting new film-makers, you had to travel to a festival, hunt down a compilation on DVD, catch a charitable showing on TV or, if you were uncommonly lucky, before the main feature at the cinema. Now all you have to do, assuming you have internet access and a passing familiarity with video-hosting websites, is switch on your computer.
The curious thing about short films is that, regardless of audience and financial incentive, people have continued to make them with great enthusiasm. This is in part because...
Are we in the middle of a short‑film revolution? Not long ago, if you wanted to catch short work by exciting new film-makers, you had to travel to a festival, hunt down a compilation on DVD, catch a charitable showing on TV or, if you were uncommonly lucky, before the main feature at the cinema. Now all you have to do, assuming you have internet access and a passing familiarity with video-hosting websites, is switch on your computer.
The curious thing about short films is that, regardless of audience and financial incentive, people have continued to make them with great enthusiasm. This is in part because...
- 12/19/2010
- by Killian Fox
- The Guardian - Film News
At Fantastic Fest this year, I was pleased to see that one of the animated shorts was from a local filmmaker -- Lucas Martell's Pigeon: Impossible. I was even more pleased that it turned out to be one of the funniest shorts in the collection.
The film is about a secret agent with a briefcase and what happens during an encounter with, well, a pigeon. The street where the action takes place is supposed to be set in Washington, D.C., but I noticed some oddly familiar landmarks, like the Driskill and the Paramount. Look at the picture on the right to see what I mean.
Martell's short animated comedy also played Austin Film Festival this year. Pigeon: Impossible is now available online for everyone to enjoy. It's a little more than six minutes long, and just what you need to add some fun to your morning. Check it...
The film is about a secret agent with a briefcase and what happens during an encounter with, well, a pigeon. The street where the action takes place is supposed to be set in Washington, D.C., but I noticed some oddly familiar landmarks, like the Driskill and the Paramount. Look at the picture on the right to see what I mean.
Martell's short animated comedy also played Austin Film Festival this year. Pigeon: Impossible is now available online for everyone to enjoy. It's a little more than six minutes long, and just what you need to add some fun to your morning. Check it...
- 11/30/2009
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Pigeon: Impossible is an awesome little short film that I caught a while back it played at the Austin Film Festival -- well, by caught I mean that I skimmed right by it as I blasted through screeners of short films on my way to judging the Student Short Films category. And unfortunately, this brilliant little short by first-time director Lucas Martell wasn't in my category, and it was unfortunately passed over. Then like all great pieces of work, it stuck around and reemerged this week over at Laughing Squid, a site I read daily. They posted a YouTube embed of the short, which follows a rookie secret agent who faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. You can watch the short below, and find more at PigeonImpossible.com. You can also follow Lucas Martell, who...
- 11/20/2009
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
What do you get when you cross a secret agent carrying a hi-tech briefcase and a pigeon? Find out what happens in the CG animated short Pigeon: Impossible from director Lucas Martell. The full version has now officially arrived on Youtube in glorious HD after hitting the festival circuit while racking up multiple of awards in the process. Here's how the press release described it: Pigeon: Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
The film took nearly 5 years to complete and is the first attempt at animation by writer/director Lucas Martell: "When the project started, it was mostly an excuse to learn 3D animation, but by the end of the project I had spent so much time reworking and polishing...
The film took nearly 5 years to complete and is the first attempt at animation by writer/director Lucas Martell: "When the project started, it was mostly an excuse to learn 3D animation, but by the end of the project I had spent so much time reworking and polishing...
- 11/19/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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