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Becuase the amount of Live Action remake threads are getting cluttery, I made this thread so people could discuss all of them in one neat place. For ease of catching up, I'll post all the Live action Disney movies we have and the movies that will be coming soon.

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edited 15th Jul '17 2:12:16 PM by VeryMelon

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#326: Oct 26th 2016 at 4:11:55 PM

It sounds like they're trying to catch some of the success of the new Annie movie.

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#327: Oct 26th 2016 at 4:16:05 PM

[up] Is "success" another word for "flop" these days?

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#328: Oct 26th 2016 at 4:35:58 PM

I thought that the best words to describe the Annie remake were "slow", "motion", and "car-crash"?

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#329: Oct 26th 2016 at 8:49:33 PM

Whoever was associated with Annie, probably executive producer Jay Z, was blind to all the flaws it had and wanted to do something similar to Oliver Twist.

edited 26th Oct '16 8:49:45 PM by kyun

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#330: Oct 31st 2016 at 7:29:31 PM

Disney is developing a live-action version of the one film I thought they'd never do in live-action.

edited 31st Oct '16 7:29:49 PM by Aldo930

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#331: Oct 31st 2016 at 7:34:44 PM

Not that surprising. There's been three Snow White films in the past five years; it was never out of the realm of possibility for Disney to try.

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#333: Nov 1st 2016 at 5:49:42 AM

No, there's always a chance they'd do that.

Disney's historic reverence for the film that started it all, a reverence that ensured the film would not be released on video until long after every other Disney film was, made me think this would never even get to development stage.

How wrong I was. Nothing's sacred in Hollywood anymore.

edited 1st Nov '16 5:52:19 AM by Aldo930

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#334: Nov 1st 2016 at 7:40:07 AM

LA Snow White doesn't make me groan the way LA Hercules would. Everything about that film is just so bad. And it was always going to be because "Disney's Hercules" are two words that should never be assembled like that in the first place. They were better off never touching Greek myth, and they seem to have realized it given that they've still never touched Greek myth.

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#335: Nov 1st 2016 at 7:49:15 AM

I'd be interested in a live-action film that closely follows the actual myth, but Disney sure as hell isn't the right studio for it.

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#336: Nov 1st 2016 at 7:52:11 AM

I'm kind of surprised they weren't already doing one to be honest.

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#337: Nov 1st 2016 at 7:54:54 AM

Apparently the remake of Snow White will have new, original songs.

Well, at least they're not going all Gus Van Sant Psycho on the film.

EDIT: Disney is also developing a Don Quixote film.

edited 1st Nov '16 8:22:04 AM by Aldo930

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#338: Nov 1st 2016 at 8:26:32 AM

Hercules is a bit of a mess but I hesitate to say it's a bad movie, let alone everything in it being bad. I do agree that making a live-action version of it would be incredibly dumb, though.

Disney's Snow White being remade into live-action isn't an inherently bad thing, but I honestly couldn't care less about it.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#339: Nov 1st 2016 at 8:43:22 AM

[up][up] Well that'll be dumb.

Seriously is there just some policy at Disney that they have to do a certain number of films based off of totally inappropriate source material ?

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#340: Nov 1st 2016 at 9:56:01 AM

I just hope the Dwarves are funny,

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#341: Nov 1st 2016 at 11:01:20 AM

[up][up] It gets worse.

Reportedly this take on Don Quixote is supposed to be akin to the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, and might even spawn a franchise if it's successful...

I wonder if they realize that Don Quixote is supposed to be a comedy?

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#342: Nov 1st 2016 at 4:33:03 PM

A good video on why Hercules comes off as not a disaster, but not a classic either.

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#343: Nov 1st 2016 at 4:41:00 PM

Thinking about the Disney Don Quixote thing... I wonder, how much cocaine are the executives in Hollywood doing to think that ideas like this are even good?

Who but a Hollywood executive could look at Don Quixote and think "This would be great if we went all Pirates Of The Caribbean on it and made it a franchise!" Or, as the CW tried to do a year back, look at Little Women and think "This would be great if we set it in post-apocalyptic Philadelphia and made it all gritty and stuff!" (Of course, NBC's gritty, post-apocalyptic take on The Wizard Of Oz somehow is making it to the air...)

What exactly makes Hollywood executives think stuff like this would be good ideas?

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#345: Nov 1st 2016 at 6:10:38 PM

It may seem crazy, but much of Welles' idea seems to be in Cervantes' spirit, and he actually had a reason for it:

"What interests me is the idea of these dated virtues and why they seem to speak to us, when by all logic they are so hopelessly irrelevant."

Welles knew that Don Quixote is a story about a crazy old man who reads too many books of chivalry and thinks he's a knight errant. He knew it was a comedy.

This, however, is taking Cervantes' book and grinding it into a blockbuster franchise mold, made by people who seem not to understand that it is a comedy. It's not that the idea is crazy; it's that the idea is dumb.

(I daresay this'll end up another John Carter or The Lone Ranger.)

edited 1st Nov '16 6:16:33 PM by Aldo930

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#347: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:26:17 AM

Don't worry.

We know they won't finish it at all, because of the Don Quixote curse.

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#348: Nov 2nd 2016 at 10:28:25 AM

I never knew Hercules was so disliked, at least here.

edited 2nd Nov '16 10:28:31 AM by VeryMelon

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#349: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:07:33 PM

[up]You should read the mini-reviews of Hercules that show up in the British telly listings magazines whenever the film pops up in the schedules then. They routinely take the utter piss out of it, and award it an average of two out of five stars. They're often funnier than the entire running time. [lol]

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#350: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:10:28 PM

[up] Do you have any links? I need to see this myself.

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