my headcanon:
- Flora: guardian over plant life
- Fauna: guardian over animal life
- Merryweather: guardian over wind and rain
I heard that they might be moving the release date from July 2nd to May 30th. Considering that this will put it only a week after X-Men: Days of Future Past, it sounds like the studio has confidence in this thing.
Looking for some stories?It just means they're expecting it to be financially successful, probably on the level of Alice In Wonderland or Oz the Great and Powerful. Or they could just be trying to fill the void left after The Good Dinosaur got pushed back 18 months.
As for quality, I'm planning to withhold judgement until we actually start seeing footage, which will now almost certainly be sometime this year.
edited 18th Sep '13 12:51:15 PM by Mort08
Looking for some stories?Do we have enough info to make a trope page, or should we wait until we get a teaser or something? I'm asking because I want to start a WMG page.
Looking for some stories?I technically mentioned that it could work, as long as we had a good actress, director, and writer.
I also pointed out that making her sympathetic would fall into the Wicked comparison trap, especially since Oz The Great And Powerful attempted to do that.
edited 26th Sep '13 6:25:40 PM by Sharysa
If you ask me, they ought to be taking inspiration from something like Grendel rather than Wicked.
edited 26th Sep '13 8:20:56 PM by Mort08
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Damn it. I hoped we'd at least get to the trailers before realizing how much this could suck balls.
I haven't watched Grendel, but I hear it was a mostly-okay adaptation of Beowulf. And I second the idea that they should draw from that instead of Wicked, but that's mostly because I don't want Wicked to get ruined by association.
Well, checking the Google doc for more ideas.
edited 27th Sep '13 10:11:40 AM by Sharysa
Double posting because watching Return To Oz has given me a thought. Disney should have made this back in The '80s, when they were still willing to be dark.
Looking for some stories?
More like they were trying to be dark. Tron and The Black Hole had already kept them from trying serious sci-fi, Something Wicked This Way Comes's failure, along with that of Black Cauldron and Return to Oz, scared them from dark fantasy.
The writer of Snow White And The Huntsman is apparently being brought in to help rework the first act.
Not sure if this is encouraging or yet another red flag. Sometimes this sort of thing helps in the end, sometimes it doesn't.
Another article quotes them as claiming that "the last 75 minutes are very entertaining." Bit of a broad statement, that. Although it would be entertaining if something like this
happened.
edited 10th Oct '13 12:31:43 PM by Mort08
Looking for some stories?And perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
Re-reading the summary, I'm finding myself hoping that Disney's misleading people with the wording to reveal "Guess what? Maleficent's true happiness is being evil for the evulz, and therefore cursing Aurora granted her that. The End!"
I read up on this a little more and found out that they've replaced the actress for Young Maleficent, so that explains part of it.
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I saw one with Queen Grimhilde where she was portrayed as being worried that Snow White ran away.

Speaking of destroying the original characters, is anyone else wondering what the logic behind changing the Good Fairies' names was?
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