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Confirmed: Albert Brooks is Back for 'Finding Nemo 2'

News has been relatively quiet on the Finding Nemo sequel front ever since it was first announced last year. Today, Deadline has an update as they report that Albert Brooks is expected to return to voice Marlin. Andrew Stanton is returning to direct the Disney•Pixar film and is co-writing the script with Victoria Strouse. Plot details are currently unavailable, but it was previously reported that Ellen DeGeneres is planning to return in the role of Dory.

The 2003 original won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for three others. With a total of $867.6 million worldwide, it was the second-highest grossing film of 2003. Brooks recently starred in Judd Apatow's This Is 40 and was, prior to that, nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. A 2016 release date is being projected for the Finding Nemo sequel.

runandtelldat 12th-Feb-2013 07:55 pm (UTC)
I watched a documentary on them one night out of boredom, and it was like watching a serial killer at work. They are scary smart and relentless when they want something dead.

From an article I just googled about Orca's killing Great Whites:

"The orca will use its tail to drive the shark to the surface. They don't even touch it. Using an up-thrust of its tail it creates a vortex which pushes the shark up on they current they create with their movements.

"Once the shark is at the surface, the killer whale pivots and lifts its tail out of the water and comes down on top of it like a karate chop."

The orca then grasps the shark and turns it upside down - suggesting that they may somehow understand shark biology.

When sharks are quickly flipped upside down, they enter a paralysed state known as 'tonic immobility'.

"It's not that the orca understands the physiology of the shark," said Dr Visser, from Tutukaka, North Island, New Zealand.. "But it does demonstrate that they understand the behavioural consequences of what will happen if they take a certain action."

Evil geniuses of the sea tbh.
infinite_drag 12th-Feb-2013 08:20 pm (UTC)
I've read that they also go after HUGE-ASS sperm whales. Like their young (even though the pod always forms a protective circle around them), and also the older, slow ones or those that are sick or injured.
monpochi 13th-Feb-2013 04:33 am (UTC)
Oh yeah, I've seen that in NatGeo or sumthin'... the one where the mom and baby are going back to colder seas to the North months after it was born.

The pod of Orcas pretty much ambushed them and the young was DECIMATED to a carcass at the end of that bit with the mother going back to the North alone. UGH.....

They are SCARY in the wild.
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