Exclusive Clip | A Disney Legend Returns to ‘Tomorrowland’

There ain’t no future like yesterday’s future, because yesterday’s future had jet packs and world peace instead of planet-killing fossil fuels and… um, not world peace. That’s why fans of Brad Bird’s sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland had such a good time with the film. Tomorrowland celebrated a hopeful vision of our future instead of the tricked-out muscle car post-apocalyptic wasteland version. (A version which is sometimes, in its own way, pretty cool too.)

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To bring the world of Tomorrowland to life, Bird enlisted Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino (Up), whose particular brand of celebratory bombast well-suited the film’s fantastical concepts. But Giacchino didn’t work in a vacuum. He also incorporated the classic Disney song “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” into Tomorrowland to help marry the past and the future into a single musical entity.

“There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” like many of the great Disney songs was written by The Sherman Brothers, Robert and Richard, who also wrote the song scores to Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book. So it’s a very special moment we’re witnessing in this exclusive clip from the upcoming Tomorrowland Blu-ray, in which Richard Sherman – the sole surviving Sherman Brother – visits the set to tell a story about writing the song for Walt Disney, and to witness Giacchino’s re-orchestration. 

Give it a watch above, and check out Tomorrowland on DVD and Blu-ray on October 13th.


William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and watch him on the weekly YouTube series Most Craved and What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

 


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