The peanuts have had a long and fruitful race in the comics, on television and even in the cinema, but we have seen less in recent years, especially after death, a quarter of a century ago, by creator Charles Schulz. Then, when something cool appears, each Peanuts fan clicks their strong blue safety blanket, wondering if this will be what the magic brings back.
Peanuts presents: a summer musicalReaching Apple TV+ next month could be that moment, and mainly because the trailer goes where it has not gone before peanut content in memory.
Peanuts presents: a summer musical, Reaching one of the best transmission services on August 15, at least based on the trailer that fell this week, a somewhat familiar peanut story. The gang is back in the summer camp, which is in danger of closing, and Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Franklin, Peppermint Patty and Snoopy must join and find a way to save it. The turn for most people is that it is a musical, the first of Peanuts in almost 40 years.
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According to the animated by Wild Brain, the film is closely in the original style of Pen-And-twins by Schulz and the appearance of some of Peanuts’s classic television specials, but with some notable exceptions. The images are more dynamic and, thanks to the shading, all the characters have a little more dimension. It is not at all at CGI level like 2015 something badly received Peanut’s movie (It was good, you just have to give it a chance), but it is still remarkable. It is an aspect that was first introduced when Apple TV+ launched the series “Snoopy Present”.
“It was being a bridge between Peanut’s movie Complete CGI and the simple 2D style of Snoopy show series. We created this hybrid to which we refer as “improved 2D”: it was created by lighting effects and digital improvements, “Schulz’s son (and an executive producer of the film) told me by email.
However, 44 seconds later, the trailer reveals a decision that was so surprising that I breathed: there was the shortest representation on the screen and even a small animation of peanut characters as seen in 1950, when Schulz began writing the iconic strip.
You would be forgiven for not realizing it. I suspect that most of the people who saw the trailer assumed that the Wild Brain animation study simply made a random decision to try to represent the characters as they could have seemed when they began to attend their beloved camp. Actually, all the characters are exactly as they appeared in the first decade before Charlie Brown adopted his round signature head and snoopy grew up a little puppy the city’s dog that is today.
It turns out that they had used that style once before in an Apple TV+ Peanuts special that I lost.
“1950 -style children had not been used until we did the Snoopy presents: single Marcie in its kind [2023] Special and introduced Carlin and some other Kindergarten children. This was the first time that my 1950’s original style cast was in animation. It was my son Bryan and one of my favorite moments in the movie, “Craig Schulz told me by email.
Even so, the images surprised me so much that, honestly, I moved, that I barely paid attention to the rest of the trailer. I had to return and see how Peanut’s children seem to meet in actions and songs.
Peanuts presents: a summer musical It can also bring magic because, it is also written, partly by the son of Charles Schulz, Craig and Nieto, Bryan, and includes all family tropes such as Schroeder playing his little piano, Sally’s Bouts of Frustration and Ansyty, Charlie Brown losing, Swoopy being incredibly threatened, Pig Piger and adults who smile like trumbones.
A small note here. When I spoke with original A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Television producer Lee Mendelson in 2015 about how they developed the “voices” for adults, told me:
“We chose not to show the adult. Then I asked our musical director, Vince Guaraldi, ‘would there be any instrument that we could use as a sound to emulate how an adult could sound for a child?'”
Guaraldi, by instinct, recruited a trombonelante.
Everyone who listened to the “Wah Wah” sound of the instrument loved it, including the creator of Peanuts Schulz, who simply said: “That’s great.”
Maybe this new musical special is also great. I have great hopes, especially considering how even the trailer gave me all the sensations.
