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.
In Production:
- Beauty and the Beast
thread
- Winnie the Pooh
thread
- Dumbo
thread
- Mulan
thread
- Pinocchio
thread
- Night on Bald Mountain from "Fantasia"
- Maleficent sequel
- Prince Charming
thread
- Aladdin prequel: Genies
- Sword in the Stone
thread
Released:
edited 15th Jul '17 2:12:16 PM by VeryMelon
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
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
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."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
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."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.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Apparently the remake of Snow White will have new, original songs
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Well, at least they're not going all Gus Van Sant Psycho on the film.
EDIT: Disney is also developing a Don Quixote film
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edited 1st Nov '16 8:22:04 AM by Aldo930
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."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.
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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?
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."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?
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."Crazy ideas don't need execs and drugs. Orson Welles planned a Don Quixote movie where Don and Sancho arrive in the modern day, fight movie screens, survive a nuclear apocalypse, and go to the Moon
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edited 1st Nov '16 6:08:22 PM by Tuckerscreator
It may seem crazy, but much of Welles' idea seems to be in Cervantes' spirit, and he actually had a reason for it:
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
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

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