Prepare for Uncanny Valley Beast! And again still when he's a human,
Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, now this...
We'll have a live action Home On The Range before fifteen years. Mark my words.
REMAKE OOLLLLLL THU ANIMATED FILMS!! BWWAAAAAAAAH! -destroys everything-
Honestly, of all the Fairy Tales, I want to see a new Live Action Peter Pan movie.
Honestly, of all the Fairy Tales, I want to see NO movie remade.
Queen of Good Things, Honest
I want to see The Lion King remade.
With actual lions.
Yes.
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Well, good-bye, crew, on THAT one! :D
^^Next, Finding Nemo with actual fish!
Hollywood, specifically Disney, is - likely in part (if not a large part) to cash in on the popularity and conventions of a previous version - making a live action version of everyone's favorite nearly three hundred year old story of love transcending beauty .
Surely this act, which has happened at least a half dozen times (though if it's a live action musical, watch out, because then that would mean it's only happened once or twice before instead of all the damn time) since the birth of film, is a portent of terror. Since every time a story gets made that had a movie before, that's what it inevitably is.
Seriously, guys. Beauty and the Beast is one of the most re-adapted stories ever (though apparently Cinderella is #1). Grimms tales get re-adapted a lot, and it's not like just because Disney made a particularly iconic one that means there's no room for it to be adapted any more.
Hell, the animated film was arguable a updated remake of an earlier film adaptation of the story. It's not that critical.
Personally, I'd prefer it if they continued with a live action set of Oz movies, but I'm game for anything. Cautious, perhaps. But not about to throw the idea away after just hearing about it.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Pirate AND writer!
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They're supposedly going forward with the Oz series as well.
It's been reported that some guy named Joe Ahearne is going to write it.
And that they're dropping the first two words of the title. -braces for backdraft-
Lionheart 0: I actually mostly liked the Peter Pan live action movie from a few years back.
If Fox didn't own the rights for X-men films...
damn. and here I thought this thread was about the Guillermo del Toro movie.
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Just awesome like that
Glad somebody said it so I didn't have to.
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Now that I know tihs is more based on the original tale rather than the 1991 film, I feel better about this.
Just awesome like that
Why would you assume it's based on the animated movie?
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Because a few years ago, a film adaptation of the stage version of the animated film was rumored to be in-development.
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Because it's from Disney.
It was a kind of 50/50 chance, since Burton's Alice didn't drink from the 1955 movie at all (then again, that might have been just because TIM BURTON. Other creators might have picked a lazier approach using the animated movie as their crutch), but Maleficent is clearly inspired by Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Just awesome like that
But I thought that Tim Burton's Alice adaptation was supposed to be drawing more from the original books, particularly Through The Looking Glass.
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Yeah...not really. Both the 1955 and Tim Burton films pick elements from both books at random so neither of them are very faithful. At all. The Tim Burton one gets a bit of a pass, at least for me (that no one gave it apparently) because it was a sequel, so it would make sense that it wasn't identical to the original.
because it was a sequel, so it would make sense that it wasn't identical to the original.
A lesson Superman Returns should have learned, but alas...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/12/beauty-and-the-beast-disney-makeover
I won't express my reaction to this, as your reaction is 99% identical to mine.
"Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, received solid if unspectacular reviews from critics but is being tipped as one of the year's biggest films." "One of the YEAR'S"?!??!? IT'S NOT EVEN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH AND YOU'RE JUDGING A FILM EVEN BEFORE MOST OF THE YEAR IS OVER!!!!
edited 12th Mar '13 8:29:00 AM by kyun