Walt Disney Animation Studios is announcing its first movie inspired by a Marvel comic Thursday, an adaptation of a lesser known crime fighter series called "Big Hero 6."
Directed by Don Hall ("Winnie the Pooh") and due in 2014, the CG-animated movie will center on a robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot companion BayMax, who join a team of superheroes in a high-tech city called San Fransokyo.
Even die-hard comic book fans may have trouble recalling the Marvel series, which was created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998 and is something of a whimsical love letter to Japanese culture.
Characters in the original comic include a samurai, an agent who invented a nanotechnology-based Power Purse and a monster born from a child's drawings.
For Hall, the absence of a detail-obsessed fan base for the series was part of its appeal, as it left every character and setting open to interpretation reports LA Times.
"I was looking for something on the obscure side, something that would mesh well with what we do," Hall said. "The idea of a kid and a robot story with a strong brother element, it's very Disney."
The computer-animated movie, which will be released in 3-D on Nov. 7, 2014, is inspired by the 1998 Marvel miniseries Sunfire & Big Hero 6 featuring Silver Samurai, Sunfire and a group of super powered individuals who come together to save Tokyo.
The film marks the first time that Walt Disney Animation Studios has made a movie with Marvel characters since Disney bought the comic-book publisher in 2009.
For Hall, the movie itself is a mash-up of two passions. Animation and comic books.
"It's basically geek wish fulfillment," Hall said.
Watch the clip of "Big Hero 6" below
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