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A Fourth ICE AGE Film Is Already Titled, Quietly Underway, And Is A Departure From The Others??
Merrick here...
An AICN reader called, simply, The Collaborator, dropped us a line offering some details on the next ICE AGE movie.
I'm not referring to ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (trailer HERE) which hits theaters early July. We're talking about the film after that.
Didn't know there was one after that? I didn't either, honestly. Read on...
I haven't seen this reported anywhere, so hopefully this is of some interest.
Even though Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs hasn't even hit theaters yet, it seems a fourth Ice Age film has been well underway or the past few months. [SOURCE'S CONNECTION TO PROJECT DELETED BY AICN] friend of mine says the 4th installment sees Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Scrat frozen solid and accidentally defrosted in a museum in present day.
At this stage the film is being called "Ice Age Th4w". Guess that sees the end of any future Ice Age movies being set in prehistoric times but this could be an interesting new direction for the franchise.
This idea also mirrors recent events where a perfectly preserved (Frozen) baby woolly mammoth was discovered on a Siberian riverbank earlier this year.
Call me
The Collaborator
To the best of our knowledge, this is The Collaborator's first contribution to AICN (and hopefully won't be the last). As such, consider the above info as originating from an untried source until we learn more.
This said: shaking up the series like this...taking well established characters and throwing them such a whopping curve ball...could either be a truly brilliant and fun stroke, or a complete disaster. Interested to see how this pans out...
Even though Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs hasn't even hit theaters yet, it seems a fourth Ice Age film has been well underway or the past few months. [SOURCE'S CONNECTION TO PROJECT DELETED BY AICN] friend of mine says the 4th installment sees Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Scrat frozen solid and accidentally defrosted in a museum in present day.
At this stage the film is being called "Ice Age Th4w". Guess that sees the end of any future Ice Age movies being set in prehistoric times but this could be an interesting new direction for the franchise.
This idea also mirrors recent events where a perfectly preserved (Frozen) baby woolly mammoth was discovered on a Siberian riverbank earlier this year.
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The Collaborator
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Make an entire movie about Scrat. My cat fucking loves it when he's onscreen - Robert Mitchum was right in Scrooged, people - cat's want quality programming too.
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Fuck you all.
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Ice Age: People 5till Watch Thi5 5hit???
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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There is no such thing as a complete disaster...not in this situation. Little kids love the characters, they could care less where those characters are. Modern times, pre-historic times...you could set the movie during the Spanish Inquisition as long as it had the characters that the little kids already loved going in.
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oooh, oooh, anyone else want to see an Ice Age/Night at the Museum crossover?!?
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but was there really a need for 3 sequels?
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He's the funniest thing about these movies.
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I demand more jj abrams cock sucking or maybe some more news about how Michael Gay took a dumb and it was smelly. ALL PRAISE jj abrams micheal gay and their fagot writers!!!! For they are the greatest directors and writers hollywood has ever seen. All further news should be dedicated to their greatness.
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Jun 09, 2009 10:19:07 AM CDT
Wasn't scrat thawed out in modern times in the 1st film
by orionsangels
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ala Monsters vs. Aliens
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But in doing so, Scrat Prime alters the past and creates an alternate Ice Age reality where Scrat is now being played by Zachary Quinto.
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... Escape from the Planet of the Apes. That movie sucked too.
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The rest of the films will take place in the North Pole.
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The number "4" doesn't fit in the word "Thaw" at all. Unless they draw the four in a funky way to look like a strange lower-case "a" I suppose.
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after getting revived. Hears Kirsten Dunst singing and mistakes it for a mating call. Goes on a testosterone driven rampage through New York. Kraven decides to hang the beast's head over the fireplace in his living room. Enter Spiderman. All manners of madcap shennanigans follow.
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Everyone else is doing it...
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Ever notice that the number 4 has two vertical pointy lines and a horizontal bar, kinda like the capital letter A?
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Will not see another one, unless dragged. May rent the DVD. Rented the last one, no body ever really watched it. Madagascar gets watched. Has those penguins, and the lemurs.
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Magically transported to King Arthur's court.Or have Manny run into Ray Romano on the streets of New York, and inform him that he will have no career after Everybody Loves Raymond. And then Ray says, "Well, I'll just have to console myself by crying into the giant buckets of cash that I keep at my money warehouse."
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This development reminds me of the 2nd Toy Story film, which took an interesting turn by delving into Woody the Cowboy's celebrated past and made use of the sometime-hilarious obsessions the collectors of minutiae sometimes display. It was a brilliant sequel because it wasn't just a total rehash of what had gone before. This 4th Ice Age installment sounds similarly creative. I think it could rock to see Manny and the gang cope with a post-prehistoric world, so I'm gonna keep my eye on any reports of future developments. Never thought I'd care about an Ice Age sequel...the second one was pretty bad...
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Why not???
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Didn't the Dinosaurs die off in the Ice Age, leading to the rise of the mammals?
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Who knew we had a honest to god Mad Magazine writer in our midst?
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want this movie banned?? I mean it teaches kids the completely incorrect theory of evolution. Where the obvious and more logical theory of creationism is completely ignored!!! This will destroy the families of America!!!
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Jun 09, 2009 11:28:06 AM CDT
The only way this would be a departure from the previous films..
by renonevada2000
... is if it were actually entertaining.
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Encino Man with animals to me.
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Sounds like a little like he read the story of the perfectly-preserved frozen wooly mammoth, coupled with the Ice Age 3 marketing brewing, thought of the title of what WOULD make a hi-lariious fourth parody title of an Ice Age sequel, then sent it in to AICN.
I don't blame him -- I'm just jealous. I mean th4w. TH4W. Material that good doesn't just flop out your noggin on a bi-hourly basis now, does it.
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A storied franchise if there ever was one!
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Saw the trailer in front of TERMINATOR (because the crowd going to see the movie about robots trying to wipe out humanity in a post-apocalyptic environment is the same crowd that's dying to see the animated adventures of a group of animals) and it seems they find a sort of "lost world" still inhabited by dinosaurs.
I'm not going to see it, but now you know - and knowing is half the battle. -
Hahahahaha. Really. Like you couldn't see this coming. Seriously???? Man this people on this planet are becoming more Idiocracy by the day...
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make it happen in Ice Age 4 : Rise of the manhood
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Folks who lisp are going to have a rough time of it when they buy a ticket to see the latest installment of "Saw," only to be directed to the wrong screen because their tickets are for "Th4w." They will then vent their anger and frustration by shouting, "Sassafrass!" to comedic effect.
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a feature-length Scrat movie. Without all that other lazy-arse shit. The Scrat stuff is like prime Warner Bros amina-mation.
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They're going to milk this until the last drop. And none of them will be as good as TOY STORY 1&2 (and possibly 3). Although, this rumored news about Monsters, Inc. 2 being in the works does worry me a bit. I'd rather have Pixar create original stories than make sequels to movies that don't really need a sequel. Monsters, Inc., for example, had a perfect ending.
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FUCKIN A!!!!
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...that we're stuck down there in the Wal-Mart discount bin with Land Before Time sequels.
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complete with a ben stiller cameo..
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how this one can be 'dawn of the dinosaurs'...when dinosaurs came BEFORE the ice age....this is really going to screw up history with kids. unless this is the uber-christian version where everything existed simultaneously together, man, mammal and dino, only 3000 years ago.
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Everybody wasn't cracking up during that last bit in the Ice Age 3 trailer where Sid tries to milk that yak thing.
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Jun 09, 2009 1:25:03 PM CDT
At some point Ice Age should converge with The Land Before Time
by robertbaron
BTW, am I the only one thought they were already on #4?
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Or, perhaps, ICE AGE 4: SCRATATOUILLE.
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When Scrat gets frozen in ice and wakes up in the present day. Could they be trying to fit that into continuity? Am I thinking about this too much?
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I saw Ice Age 3 by the way, and it's the best of the 3. Simon Pegg's character is awesome.
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One of Blue Sky's first efforts, the concept of the human baby made it work, along with Diego the anti-hero, who has now been toned down a la Wolverine unfortunately.
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I'd like to see more. And, we will. But the strength of Toy Story 2 suggested, to me, that Pixar has an entirely different, and extraoridinarily potent, methodology for creating sequel story lines. It built on what was there before, touched on important points without essentially repeating the plot of the original. Since Monsters, Inc. tied up so neatly, I'm atually anxious to see what kind of new, novel story they end up telling in that universe. And I'd love a sequel to The Incredibles.
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It'll be a merchandising bonanza. Manny and the gang, through a series of misadventures, end up in space! And they have to fight the aliens!
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I could understand the second one in a way, but, to do two more, and then have them in our time, just seems a little too cliche. It'd be like so many other things that have been done. These characters aren't that interesting anymore.
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THAT FUCKING RAY RAMONO MAMMOTH WAKES UP, AND THE TALIBAN DRIVES A TRUCK BOMB RIGHT UP HIS ASS. THE SCREEN IS LITTERED WITH BLOOD, MEAT, AND FUR. THE KIDDIES WILL LOVE IT!
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Even beyond the Scrat stuff, it had a warm glow to the sharacter interactions, and the "return the baby to its tribe" MacGuffin gave it a genuine dramatic thrust. Ice Age 2 just upped the Scrat scenes and added a LOT more disgusting body-function jokes (a la Austin Powers 2), and had a less-compelling storyline. Ice Age 3 looks to be more of the same, but that trailer with the Scrat meeting the female squirrell-thingy and falling off the cliff is fucking hilarious.
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story sounds as lame as the third Ninja Turles movie.
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ice age 3 looks pretty fun.
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only to thaw out in the future and STILL lose his beloeved nut? I don't remember if it was the end of Ice Age 1 or two...
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So is this report 2 years old, or just badly informed?
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...but grilled only last month. It was deeeeeelicious.
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Someone's pulling a joke on the Night at the Museum connection.
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It's the only character people like anyway. Why else would the teaser be about it exclusively?
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The first sequel to Ice Age really sucked. There was nothing to it other than milking the audience. I suspect this third movie will be more of the same. Like Shrek, Ice Age has'nt got material or characters that can be stretched into eternity. It simply isnt built of the same cloth as the Pixar movies.
That being said, and if this rumour has a bit of truth to it, it would be a fun idea to have then wake up post-humanity. Tragedies travels in circles... They could make all sorts of wisecracks about the leftovers of humanity that they find on their way etc. Hmmm now that I think of it, it could also be a really bad idea... After all its Ice Age. Not Highlander. Maybe they should just stay extinct. -
Scrat thaws out of ice on the shore of a tropical island at the end of part 1 (though it isn't specified that he's actually woken up in the present day.) The short Scrat film that's included on the DVD for part 2 has Scrat discover a time machine and shoot about in time, eventually ending up in the future, where oak trees have died out (so, really, he shouldn't feature in any more movies.)
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Good stuff! Harmless fun.
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Jun 09, 2009 6:16:15 PM CDT
This should have died a quiet undignified death after No. 2
by outlawsdelejos
If this idea is real it sounds, like Ice Age meets Madagascar meets Night at the Museum or some shit. Fuck I hate these movies.
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See my previous post.
On another note, I just got back from a "date" and all I got out of it was mildly drunk. Seeing her again next week, but that doesn't mean shit for my dick - he is not happy. -
I am very proud of this fact.
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clear influence, not interested
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They should have stopped at the first one. it was an okay idea, but artistically, its no where near pixar level and needs to stop. only quality, please! childrens need quality.
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I fucking hate that stupid ass shit. People that put numbers in the middle of words for movie titles should be FUCKING SHOT. Not really, but fuck them.
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Think of how much more box office Trek VII would have made?
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... should have been IC3 AG3 or 3 ICE 3 AGE. Personally, I blame the kids and their fucking Twitter-speak. Somebody should roll back prices to 1965 and make today's youth write longhand on paper and calculate shit on an abacus.
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...buried in arctic ice, and they'll say, "Well it's official, global warming was shit." And then they'll thaw him out and he'll have to deal with a post-Obama world, which means that after destroying the US economy and getting trashed by every nutbar Muslim fascist/Russian dictator in the world, the Dems have been out of power for the past 10,000 years. Hilarity ensues.
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"but this could be an interesting new direction for the franchise."But it's not. By that I mean it is neither new nor interesting.
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