Here's What Brad Bird And Damon Lindelof's 'Tomorrowland' Is Actually About

Since we first heard of a mysterious film called 1952 that would team up director Brad Bird and screenwriter Damon Lindelof, expectations and speculation have run rampant. Clues have pointed in all kinds of directions, from UFOs to Star Wars Episode VII. The film was then titled Tomorrowland, a few more clues were revealed but we all knew, eventually the truth was going to leak. The truth, after all, was out there.

HitFix has now gotten their hands on the description of Tomorrowland, which Disney will release on December 19, 2014. This is the description that's going around to agencies as Bird assembles his cast, beyond stars George Clooney and Hugh Laurie. If you'd like to keep the mystery alive for a bit longer, you're going to want to avoid this. But, sooner or later, this was going to get out there, so why not now?

According to HitFix, this is the logline for Tomorrowland:

A teenage girl, a genius middle-aged man (who was kicked out of Tomorrowland) and a pre-pubescent girl robot attempt to get to and unravel what happened to Tomorrowland, which exists in an alternative dimension, in order to save Earth.

No UFOs, no Star Wars, no conspiracy. Just the tale of a man, girl and robot who travel across dimensions to battle a crazy person obsessed with technology.

Confused? That's understandable. The HitFix story elaborates a bit. Here's more:

The "Tomorrowland" that they keep referring to in this break-down appears to be a place where science has blown past the world we live in, and when Frank Walker was a young man, he first encountered the promise of Tomorrowland at the 1964 World's Fair.  David Nix was there, showing off his own work, and he told Walker to come back when he was older and his inventions actually worked.  A girl named Athena saw great promise in 11-year-old Frank, though, and she snuck him into Tomorrowland.  Eventually, Frank was discovered by Nix and thrown out, but not before learning that the girl he loved, Athena, was actually a robot.

By the time we meet Frank in the film, he's much older, and George Clooney is set to play the part.  Nix is the role that Hugh Laurie is signed for, and by the point the main story of the film kicks in, Nix has been in charge of Disneyland for many years, and he's become rotten, corrupt.  Athena, unchanged since Frank was a young man, plays a key role in the film, and the hero is a girl named Casey who has a quick scientific mind that becomes important as the story unfolds.  Nix is a guy who values technical accomplishment over creative thinking, and when he throws Frank out of Tomorrowland, he's not alone.  Every creative thinker is banished, allowing Nix to focus purely on aesthetics and technical advancement for its own sake.

There's even more in the HitFix piece, including the reasons why they think is, 100%, what Tomorrowland is about. There's also a bit about the above description maybe being a red herring. But that's not likely.

Now that I've read this, it makes a lot of sense. This is a Disney movie after all, and it focusing on an-almost family unit seems like a much more likely big, blockbuster holiday release than a film about UFO cover-ups. This Tomorrowland sounds like grand adventure, which sounds good to me.

So, now that we have the truth, is this what you expected?