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In the latest Screen RantPitch Meeting , Ryan George reveals what ( belike ) happened when DreamWorks Animation first decided to makeBee Movie , an animated movie in which Jerry Seinfeld sound a bee call Barry B. Benson . It may not have exactly been a hit , but at least it prompt its own eccentric subculture of memes .
Back in 1998 , both DreamWorks and Pixar released animated picture about the lives of ants -AntzandA microbe ’s Life , severally . Pixar ’s motion picture was the bragging achiever , but a decade later DreamWorks decided to take another stab at the worm kingdom withBee Movie , a movie about a bee who descend in love with a human woman and subsequently select the human slipstream to court for its theft of honey from the bee . Also at one pointedness the bees have to help safely land a plane .
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If that simple synopsis has you questioning howBee Movieever got made , well , you ’re not alone . But not only did it get made , it actually had a production budget of $ 150 million ! DreamWorks clear had a raft of faith inBee Movie ’s potential , so here ’s our guess at how the initial sales talk meeting fail down .
Like many great artists , Barry B. Benson was n’t truly appreciated in his own fourth dimension . However , in late yearsBee Moviehas seen a revivification in popularity thanks to the internet ’s deep love of all thing uncanny . From " beestiality " fan fabrication ( please do n’t Google it ) to aYouTube videoof the entire motion picture that rush along up every time someone suppose the word " bee,“Bee Moviecertainly has a unique bequest … though it ’s belike not the variety of legacy that Seinfeld had imagined .
Naturally there ’s been a raft of sake in a subsequence toBee Movieover the years . In a 2016RedditAMA , Seinfeld enounce that he had considered it but was interested that " it would make Bee Movie 1 less iconic . " However , by and by that same class he seemed to be mulling over the opening of Bee Movie 2 again , postulate fans onTwitter , " Should I ? Any interest ? "
Some might say that there ’s no way DreamWorks will ever make aBee Moviesequel , consecrate that the first movie was a boxwood government agency dud . But if you ’re one of those doubters , just remember that according to all cognise Pentateuch of airmanship , there is no way a bee should be able-bodied to vanish .
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