Peanuts have had a long and fruitful race in the comics, on TV and even in films, but we have seen less of them in recent years, especially after the passing, a quarter of a century ago by creator Charles Schulz. So when something fresh comes along, each peanuts tighten their blue safety blanket tightly and wonder if it will be what brings magic back.
Peanuts presents: a summer musicalArriving at Apple TV+ next month may be that moment, and mainly because the trailer goes where no peanut content in memory has passed before.
Peanuts presents: a summer musical, Arriving at one of the best streaming services on August 15 is at least based on the trailer that fell this week, a somewhat well -known peanuts story. The gang is back at summer camp, which is at risk of shutting down, and Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Franklin, Peppermint Patty and Snoopy have to merge and find a way to save it. The twist for most is that it is a musical, peanuts only in almost 40 years.
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As animated by Wild Brain, the film cuts close to Schulz’s original pen-and-ink style and the look and feeling of some of Peanuts’ classic TV specials, but with some remarkable exceptions. The picture is more dynamic and thanks to shade all the characters just have a little more dimension. It’s not CGI level at all like the somewhat poorly received 2015s The Peanuts movie (It was good, you just have to give it a try), but it’s still noticeable. It’s a look that was first introduced when Apple TV+ launched the “Snoopy Presents” series.
“It should be a bridge between The Peanuts movie full CGI and the simple 2D -style of The Snoopy show series. We created this hybrid, which we referred to as “enhanced 2D” – it was created by light effects and digital improvements, “Schulz’s son (and an executive producer for the film), Craig, told me via E email.
However, the trailer reveals 44 seconds, the trailer a decision that was so surprising, I caught the weather: There was the shortest representation on the screen and even a small animation of peanut figures when they looked in 1950 when Schulz first began to punish the iconic strip.
You will be forgiven for not noting that. I suppose most people who see the trailer assumed that the animation studio Wild Brain simply made a random decision to try to portray the characters they may have seen when they first began to attend their beloved camp. In reality, all the characters are exactly as they appeared in the first decade before Charlie Brown adopted his signature round head, and Snoopy grew from an opaque puppy into the man he is in town he is today.
It turns out they had used that style once before in an Apple TV+ Peanuts Special I missed.
“The children of the 1950s had not been used until we did Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie [2023] Special and introduced Carlin and some other kindergartens. This was the first time my father’s original 1950s role has been set for animation. It was my son Bryan’s idea, and one of my favorite moments in the movie, “Craig Schulz told me via E -Mail.
Still, I was so caught by the pictures and honestly that I was hardly aware of the rest of the trailer. I had to go back and see how the peanuts kids seem to be pulling together in actions and singing.
Peanuts presents: a summer musical Can also bring the magic because it is also written, partly by Charles Schulz’s son, Craig and grandson, Bryan, and it includes all the well -known tropes like Schroeder who plays his little piano, Sally’s seizures of frustration and anxiety, Charlie Brown Mister, Snoopy is incredibly cool, pig pen is dirty and adults.
A small side message here. When I was talking to the original A Charlie Brown Christmas TV producer Lee Mendelson in 2015 on how they first developed the adults “voices” he told me:
“We chose not to show the adult. So I asked our music director, Vince Guaraldi,” there would be an instrument we could use as a sound to emulate how an adult might sound like a child? “
Guaraldi worked on instinct a trombone player.
Everyone who heard the instrument’s “Wah Wah” sound loved it, including peanuts creator Schulz, who simply said, “It’s amazing.”
Maybe this new musical special will be great too. I have high hopes, especially considering how even the trailer just gave me all feelings.
