- For the video game based on the film, see Bee Movie Game.
Bee Movie is a computer-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy
Bates, Oprah Winfrey, and Patrick
Warburton. Produced by Dreamworks Animation, it is directed by Simon J.
Smith and Steve Hickner, and slated for release November 2, 2007 by Paramount Pictures. Its title is a play on the term
"B movie".
Bee Movie is the first motion-picture script to be written by Seinfeld, who co-wrote it with Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, and Andy
Robin. The cast and crew include some veterans of Seinfeld's long-running NBC
sitcom Seinfeld, including
writer/producers Feresten and Robin, and actors Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld
character David Puddy), and Larry Miller (who
plays the title character on the Seinfeld episode "The Doorman".)
The film was produced by Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Steinberg and Cameron Stevning. It
was written by Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Robin,
Barry Marder and Spike Feresten. The production was
designed by Alex McDowell, and Christophe Lautrette was
the art director. Nick Fletcher was the supervising editor and music for the film was composed by
Rupert Gregson-Williams.
Synopsis
Having just graduated from college, a bee by the name of Barry
Bee Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only
one career choice – honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of
the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New
York City florist named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that
the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is
to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey. Because of
this, Barry wins the lawsuit, and all honey in the world is confiscated and returned to the bees. But now, Barry and Vanessa
realize that now all the honey in the world is back, every bee has been put out of a job, and thus cannot earn money for their
families. Barry also realizes that without bees pollinating the flowers, the plant life is dying
and producing no more oxygen. To set things right, he and Vanessa must find a way to re-pollinate the flowers and get the bees
their jobs back before the balance of nature shifts for the worse.
Trailers
Two teaser trailers have been released for the film that feature Seinfeld dressed in a bee costume, attempting to shoot the
film in live-action. Eddie Izzard portrays the
director, and Steven Spielberg suggests to Seinfeld in the second trailer to just do it
as a cartoon. Upon the release of the first trailer, it was announced[citation needed] that three of the live-action
teasers would be released in total.
In the second trailer, Steven Spielberg is taking a picture of himself and a pretty female Assistant Director, referencing the camera gag Ellen
DeGeneres pulled on him during the 79th Academy Awards. Also in the second
trailer, the bear that jumps out at Barry is Vincent the bear from Over the Hedge, another Dreamworks movie.
The third trailer was released with Shrek The Third, but this was not a
live-action teaser. The fourth trailer was released on the Bee Movie official website, and revealed most of the film's
plot. According to a recent trailer, Cinnabon is featured in the movie.
In addition, 2 weeks before the release, NBC will air 22 humorous behind-the-scenes skits, all of which are staged and
tongue-in-cheek in nature.
Cast
Ray Liotta has a small cameo playing an animated version of himself. Megan Mullally was originally voicing the Queen of the hive and had even recorded her lines, yet due to
film cuts, her character was cut. Jerry Seinfeld still wanted her to have a part in the
movie, so he gave her the role of the Honex Tour Guide. At one point, Uma Thurman,
Rebecca Soler, Robert Duvall, and Tim Blake Nelson were all attached, yet they dropped out for various reasons.
References
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