Is earth the movie version of the Planet Earth TV series?
AF: That’s not true at all. Let me explain exactly what happened. The movie and the TV series were commissioned together at the same time. We always had a separate script and a separate budget. We were going to concentrate on three key characters that made the movie. There is some shared material between the TV series and the movie. If we shot the whole movie independent of the TV series, the budget would have been astronomical. The movie shows a range of habitats and extraordinary new behavior. The two projects benefited from each other’s budgets, but there was always separate vision. The experience on the big screen, with surround sound, is much richer and different from the TV at home. Tell me about Disneynature. AF: It’s Disney’s first new label that they’ve released for 60 years. There are already six movies commissioned. The long-term vision is that they will release a movie every year. Mark and I are involved in two more. It’s great that Disney is returning to the original tradi
