Crood Awakening 'toon finally rises

It seems like a prehistoric age has passed since DreamWorks, flush with love for all things quirky, British and animated, proudly announced that they had snapped up the stone-age script Crood Awakening, penned by John Cleese and Kirk De Micco.

That was 2005. Now, two years later, the company isn’t so committed to British animators (buh-bye, Aardman), but it’s still found room for Crood.

There’s an interesting back-story to this, though… up until recently, Sanders had been hard at work on American Dog for Disney, which was generating healthy buzz within animation circles. But when Pixar executive John Lasseter arrived to oversee Disney’s animation department last year, he wasn’t exactly thrilled with what Sanders had been developing. And so, as of last December, Sanders was out, ditching Disney due to “creative differences” and now finding a home within the warm bosom of DreamWorks.

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