Even with tuned-up ‘toon Happy Feet about to dance into cinemas, penguins are so last year.
The new hot bird on the block is the flamingo. Or at least, that’s what Disney hopes.
The company has kicked off shooting documentary Dreamscape, which will follow the lifecycle of the long-legged wading types in one of the world’s toughest environments: Tanzania’s Lake Natron, where they survive by following rain patterns.
The film will shoot for 50 weeks and should be out in 2008. Somehow, we’re not convinced that flamingos will be a cult sensation like those penguins (less of the cute factor) but you never know…