When it comes to his new movie Tomorrowland, director Brad Bird tells Entertainment Weekly, “We begin our movie asking what did [the future] used to be? What’s good about the future and what’s scary about it? And we wrestle with those things in a slightly mythical way.”
The film, set for release on May 22, 2015, stars Britt Robertson (“Under the Dome”) as Casey Newton, a Florida girl who dreams of the future while watching the launchpads of Cape Canaveral being disassembled. She goes exploring one day and, after landing in a bit of trouble, finds herself in possession of a mysterious pin. Touching it reveals a vision of a place that may not be a different world but simply a better one.
She will eventually come to meet Frank Walker (George Clooney), a former boy-genius inventor, jaded by disillusionment, and the two will embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as Tomorrowland. Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Thomas Robinson, Judy Greer and Kathryn Hahn co-star.
“What Hogwarts is to magic, Tomorrowland is to science: They are both easy to find if you are a wizard and very difficult to find if you’re a Muggle,” screenwriter Damon Lindelof (Prometheus) tells EW. “Walt Disney is not a character in our movie, but he is referenced as having some involvement in this mysterious place called Tomorrowland, as a huge futurist and aficionado of space travel, rocketry, cities of the future, and space travel.”
EW suggests there is more to come with regard to the film in the near future so keep your eyes peeled, but for now here are a couple pictures from the movie to go with the concept art above.
