Where is brave supposed to take place

Brave proves over and over that moms are the best. The directors scrapped that shot because when Elinor started sprouting hair, they feared audiences might think she was turning into Fergus and what a different movie that would be.

Merida is five feet four inches tall, and Bear-Elinor is nine feet tall when standing. Their height difference created such a challenge for animators that sometimes they sunk Elinor into the floor a bit in order to fit both characters in the same shot.

The script originally called for the triplets to distract Fergus by projecting a shadow on the wall using a bear puppet. The writers changed the puppet to a chicken on a stick because they thought it was funnier we agree.

Directors almost cut the touching flashback scene of Elinor and Young Merida singing a lullaby, due to the difficulty of animating Merida as a toddler. It's hard to fathom that Brave, Pixar's next feature film, is still almost a year away. To date, fans have seen the exciting, yet deliberately non-revealing, teaser trailer , a few concept images , and that's about it. The D23 Expo changed that, though, as attendees got a much better idea of what June 22, holds.

Director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian presented footage on Saturday while production designer Steve Pilcher and art director Tia Kratter explained the visuals on Sunday.

Combining the two panels, we learned a ton of new information. Is the Pizza Planet truck in the movie? When does the film take place? What visuals changed with the new director? After the jump, read 10 brand new Brave facts. It was more or less common knowledge that Brave takes place in ancient Scotland but there wasn't confirmation of specifically when. Now we know. It's the 10th century. Most of us figured this out when we saw Merida , the main character voiced by Kelly Macdonald , stand up to a bear in the teaser trailer but the scene shown at D23 expanded on that significantly.

Here's how it went down. The witch says she won't help Merida unless she buys a wood carving; in response, Merida buys the lot, trading for a necklace , but says she wants a spell that will change her fate as well. Merida asks for a spell that would change her mother, which she assumes will change her fate.

The witch conjures a tart for Merida to give to her mother. On Merida's way out, the witch thinks she forgot to tell Merida something about the spell, but she and her cottage disappear when Merida turns around to ask what the witch was saying.

After a brief conversation, Merida presents the tart to her mother, who takes a bite and immediately feels sick. Merida takes Elinor up to her room, where she rolls off her bed and Merida discovers that her mother has transformed into a bear. Fergus, downstairs in the hall, smells a bear, and he leads the lords upstairs.

Merida and Elinor, with the help of her the young princes Harris, Hubert, and Hamish , manage to escape the castle without Fergus finding them, and she and her mother retreat into the forest back to the witch's cottage.

The witch isn't present, but there is a cauldron where the witch appears and has left a cryptic message for Merida. She tells Merida that by the second sunrise the spell would be permanent unless Merida can repair a bond.

Merida and her mother exit the cottage and find shelter for the night, wondering how they'll be able to fix the curse. In the morning, Elinor has set out a breakfast of some found berries, which turn out to be poisonous, and some dirty water.

Merida finds a river and takes the time to teach her mother how to catch fish. The two bond, seeing different sides of each other. While in the forest, Elinor suddenly acts as if she's about to attack Merida but soon recovers as Merida remarks that her mother is turning into a true bear. They then come across some wisps and are led to the ruins of an old castle. Merida falls down a pit into an old throne room which she realizes is the palace of the four brothers from Elinor's story.

She finds an old stone engraved with the four brothers but finds a part with a brother that had been cut off, as when Merida had cut the tapestry of her own family earlier.

She realizes that the curse has happened before and that the brother who'd gone on his own path is now Mor'du. Then Merida is attacked by Mor'du, who lives in the ruins, but she escapes with the help of her mother. Merida realizes Elinor will become just like Mor'du, turning into a real bear if they don't break the spell.

They travel back to DunBroch to sew the family tapestry back together, thinking that it will break the spell. To get Elinor upstairs without being seen, Merida distracts her father and the lords who are fighting and thinking of starting a war on each other. From the back of the room, unseen, Bear Elinor uses makeshift sign language to help Merida give a speech that brings the kingdoms back together, in which she states that her mother had rewritten the ways of the kingdoms, that both she and the sons could marry whoever they wanted.

Everyone rejoices and travels outside, leaving Merida and Elinor to make it up to the tapestry room. While trying to sew the tapestry, Fergus goes into his room and finds Elinor's ripped clothes and broken bed when she'd turned into a bear. Fergus, believing Elinor has been murdered, bursts into the tapestry room to tell Merida the news and finds Merida and Bear Elinor.

Elinor assumes the disposition of a bear and fights with Fergus. Merida tries to convince Fergus that the bear is his wife, Elinor, but Fergus says Merida is talking nonsense and locks her in the tapestry room to protect her. Fergus then sets off with the lords to capture Elinor, while Merida is stuck in the tapestry room.

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