Much as I like Nathan lane, I can't see him fitting into ANYWHERE in Astro-Boy. I could kind of sort of in my wildest imagination see him playing the Doc (the early dubs called him Dr. Elephant or something like that. I forgot his Japanese name). But other than something wildly cartoony and almost out of the style of the film, his voice just wouldn't be a good fit. Everyone else seems relatively characteristic.
Personally, Eugene would be better as Dr. Elephant.
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That's going to be quite hard with what they have under their belt after almost 80 years of being in the field. Unless you mean movies in which case I can see that. They've been getting stomped by Disney and Pixar so there's no point in even trying anymore.
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It's a report I heard a while back. Unless I misread it, WB animation is going through all this scrutiny right now due to poor decisions and gross mismangement. At the very least, they want to KILL their TV animation division. After mindless s**t like Loonatics Unleashed and Coconut Fred, it's almost no wonder. But it seems that once things started to get better (Tom and Jerry was a surprise hit on Saturday Mornings), they just decided to stop.
And I wouldn't be surprised if that carries into features too. Happy Feet may have been successful for them, but it's one in a long line of random companies knocking around Pixar and Dreamwork (and to a lesser extent, Blue Sky)'s business. Sooner or later the CGI bubble is gonna burst, due in part to oversaturization. The weaker companies will lose their CGI animation branches, and the stronger ones (Pixar, Dreamworks, and Blue Sky) will keep their leads.
But then again, maybe the Weinstine company FINALLY has enough heft to stand on its own feet, and they don't need Warners to help them. That would have been better news if the afforementioned management shake ups didn't endanger their chances of TMNT 2 (Imagi's, that is).