Disney's Gigantic

I surprisingly couldn't find a thread for this film yet.

Gigantic is Disney's next big 'princess' film currently set for 2020. It was announced several years ago as Giants but has since been renamed Gigantic. It's loosely based on Jack and the Beanstalk, in the same way Frozen is "loosely based on" The Snow Queen.

It takes place in Spain and involves a guy named Jack who befriends a blonde child giant in the sky named Inma.

Sounds sweet! Why all the blonde leading roles tho?

If it's set in Spain shouldn't he be Juan rather than Jack?

I've seen people mention that elsewhere. Maybe he's multicultural or not a Spain native? No one knows specifics yet.

Everyone Loves Blondes?

Apparently they're having trouble casting Inma. They want to do the Children Voicing Children angle but due to the film being in Development Hell their picks are aging out of the roles.

A few months ago a song was shown off. I doubt it'll appear in the final product, and if it does it'll be vastly changed:

Those in the room also got to hear a bit of the first song from Gigantic, as sung live by Lopez and Anderson-Lopez. The song occurs after Inma finds Jack in her room, to her delight. He struggles to explain that he’s a man, and she sings:

I love my little man, I love my little man, you can make him do this, you can make him do this. You can wash him in a dish, be care he gets ticklish, my teeny little man. In a life that’s kind of lonely, I thought if only, I had a little man.

They sang a very early version of a song which will be sung by Inma as she starts playing with her “little man:” “You can toss him in the air, you can comb his air, my itty bitty man, I love my little man.” It has lots and lots of jokes, like the Frozen song “Love is an Open Door.”

The song begins just as Inma’s discovered Jack- she thinks he’s a toy- and the song plays through all the ideas she’s got for her new tiny toy man. “You can wash him in a dish,” for example. He also makes a great bookmark (Inma fits Jack between two pages and slams the cover shut- Jack grunts in horrible pain). When Inma shoves him into a paper airplane (which crashes into a houseplant), he’s her “flying, crying, almost dying little man.”

"There are so many things you can do with a little man! You can toss him in the air, you can pet his tiny hair, my pretty pretty pretty little man. You can make him do this, you can make him do this, and he even makes a pretty good bookmark!" She plays with him like a doll, makes him shoot baskets, wear a dress, and yes, puts him in a book. "He's cutest when he's jumping on a sponge cake..."

edited 3rd Oct '17 5:27:32 PM by Pichu-kun

Disney has just shelved the movie.

Shame. I was really looking forward to this, much more than what I could say for their needless sequels and live-action remakes.

Sometimes things don't work, it's a feature of Disney. Although I do wonder what they could work on next, as they head into the next decade. I do hope they can revive another canceled film project they have shelved from earlier times.

Awwwwwww, and I was laughing out loud at the lyrics of that "little man" song.

Crud.

Aw great. :(

Didn't one of the bootleg DVD's Duke Weaselton was selling in Zootopia include a nod to ''Gigantic''◊? The joke's now a bit sad in retrospect.

edited 10th Oct '17 6:52:04 PM by chasemaddigan

Yeah now that in-joke will make even less sense.

They did say they have a replacement movie for that release date. I wonder what it could be!

I feel like they looked at Gigantic and decided it was too much of a gamble compared to say the squeals and remakes they are doing

Considering that they so recently had such huge hits as Frozen and Zootopia be original films, I wouldn't say that it's likely they only want sequels at all. If they're going to come out and say that the movie just wasn't working with no excuses or corporate speak, I'm inclined to believe them.

Sometimes it’s better to cut the losses and run.

And it's not like they haven't done this in the past. It's been a while since it's happened publicly (closest would be Pixar's newt), but their were attempts for decades to make a Beauty and the Beast film, but until they hit on the Broadway musical angle it always dragged in the middle.

edited 11th Oct '17 3:04:19 PM by BigMadDraco

I mean not everything they're going to release will be sequels!

We have Frozen 2, Wreck-It Ralph 2, and ... ... ...

Well, for now all we can do is hope that it gets picked back up again in the future.

Yeah, I get people were looking forward to this movie, but they're doomsaying it's canceled.

And I'm like "Guys? When a project is shelved, doesn't that mean it just hit a snag and the studio as a collective are like "we'll get back to you" or "let's put a pin on this for now"?"

Since when did "shelved" = "canceled"?

Sometimes a project just doesn’t work. Rather than release a mess to the public, just move on. You know what you get when you don’t? You get Suicide Squad.

To be completely honest, I would think it'd be incredibly hard to expand Jack And The Beanstalk (which is what this movie was going to be) into an Hour and 30 Minutes. I'm having a hard time imagining how to make it last longer then 30 minutes! I mean, the story is really simple the whole way through; a town is poor (sometimes because of the Giant), a boy sells his cow for magic beans, the beans grow to a stalk that reaches a castle in the clouds, which is home to unimaginable wealth and the Giant, the boy steals the Giants wealth, then escapes the Giant and tears down the stalk (which sometimes kills the chasing Giant as a result).

From what little I've heard of Gigantic, it seemed like they were going to pad it out by having a whole lot of Giants be involved (like a little girl Giant), which probably wasn't going to work well.

The last Disney animated film that came out that was "shelved" took DECADES to get back in production (Frozen). When something is shelved it indeed doesn't mean it's canceled, but people know it may as well be, because it takes a long time for it to come back!

edited 12th Oct '17 7:51:11 AM by kyun

And, knowing Disney, it'll probably be in essence an entirely different movie if it does come back.

edited 12th Oct '17 7:59:59 AM by IniuriaTalis

Did anyone see Jack the Giant Slayer? All I can remember about it now is RedLetterMedia calling it "Jack and the Giant Beanstalk."

Awwwww fuck. I kinda thought this might've been decent

I just learned the bad news a few nights ago. I was fumin' for hours. I can't believe they cancelled it!

I have heard a lot of Disney plans complain about Gigantic but it always just looked like the same ol' "Disney died after Frozen/Tangled/Tarzan" chatter that you always see from anti-CGI people.

I'm confused on why they scrapped Gigantic. It seemed to be doing well. Didn't they just announce some new stuff a few months ago? Tangled took like seven years to make, so Gigantic taking a while didn't seem abnormal.

I think the closest thing that we got to an answer was that they just couldn't figure out how to make the story work. Basically, studio-wide writer's block or something like that.