More 3D Bugs!

From what I can tell, someone in Hollywood decided that what the 3D Animated Film industry really needed was another film about bugs, as the Director of "Robots" and "Ice Age" is now set to direct a new film for Fox.



From Yahoo! Movies


The studio that made heroes of prehistoric mammals is turning to garden leaves and doodlebugs.

20th Century Fox Animation has optioned and is developing William Joyce's illustrated children's book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs."

Described as an epic adventure centering on ancient elfin magic, the book follows a troop of brave bugs who march off to save a garden, where they encounter an evil spider queen and must summon the mythical Leaf Men to save the day.

I liked "Ice Age" and "Robots," but do we really need another 3D bug film? It just seems that there are so many other possibilities for subject matter, and the bug thing has been done more than a few times already. It will probably be a good film, but much like "The Ant Bully," could suffer at the box office due to a subject matter that has already been covered a time or two.

Leaf Men article on Yahoo! Movies.