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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

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#4776: Jun 14th 2023 at 9:31:34 AM

@sync: Tbf the creator of Chernobyl perhaps one of the best docu dramas of all time. Previous works were Scary Movie 3 and The Hangover 2. People can really surprise you outside their wheel house.

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#4777: Jun 14th 2023 at 9:39:53 AM

I know that (I was defending the prospect of TLOU even as a non-gamer purely because of how hard Chernobyl went, and ended up not liking it as much as Chernobyl lol)...but it is enough of a pattern with Disney to hand the reins to a $200M joint to someone with a currently-buzzy small film (in the MCU we'd observed Waititi/Thor, Zhao/Eternals, Da Costa/Marvels) to be obvious that it's not "creative potential that the public has not yet seen" that they are after.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 14th 2023 at 11:40:34 AM

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#4778: Jun 14th 2023 at 11:09:56 AM

I can't remember the name but there was an indie director who reported that Marvel contacted her about helming a movie and when she got excited about developing the story and action/VFX set pieces their response was "Don't worry about that." Kind of peels back the illusion of whose movie it really is.

It was probably Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi who set the precedent of hiring indie genre filmmakers for these superhero films. Beforehand big budget directors typically came from, believe it or not, music video directors.

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#4779: Jun 14th 2023 at 11:17:22 AM

It was Lucrecia Martel talking about Black Widow.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 14th 2023 at 11:18:50 AM

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#4780: Jun 14th 2023 at 11:17:56 AM

EDIT: Accidental double post.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 14th 2023 at 11:18:40 AM

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#4781: Jun 14th 2023 at 12:31:23 PM

Live action Fantasia when?

They kinda already have—or at least for part of it—with The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

...Okay, it's barely the same thing—but hence the "kinda"! :P

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Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#4782: Jun 14th 2023 at 3:07:37 PM

Give us a live-action "Rite of Spring" with photorealistic dinosaurs!

...or I can just rewatch Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV+.

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#4784: Jun 14th 2023 at 5:37:14 PM

[up][up][up]Oh god I forgot about that Nicholas Cage movie.

Edited by Ookamikun on Jun 14th 2023 at 8:37:30 PM

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#4785: Jun 14th 2023 at 6:07:16 PM

Live Action Fantastia sounds kind of dope, tbh.

Live action theatre performances and skits set to classical music or public domain music? If America didn't despise interpretive dance as much as it does, it probably would be dynamite.

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#4786: Jun 14th 2023 at 8:06:33 PM

Was on Rifftrax's Twitch channel and they showed a live action Aladdin film from 1990 that was apparently produced for The Disney Channel.

It features Barry Bostwick as the Genie.

It was certainly... an experience.

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#4787: Jun 15th 2023 at 5:47:29 AM

[up]I googled and oh my god. Why does it look like something from a theater play? Also interesting they kept Chinese aspects of it.

Edited by Ookamikun on Jun 15th 2023 at 8:47:54 PM

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#4788: Jun 15th 2023 at 10:45:27 PM

Still interesting how this might be one of the closest times Disney has gotten to a horror movie. Makes me wonder what a modern attempt would be like these days.

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#4789: Jun 16th 2023 at 10:23:31 PM

Disney also did Return to Oz way back in the 1980s and that movie had some pretty horrific moments in it.

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#4790: Jun 17th 2023 at 2:51:05 AM

The wheelers and the headless queen

-shudders-

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#4791: Jun 17th 2023 at 4:48:03 AM

[up] I honestly think the wheelers are far too goofy to actually be scary. They also don't have hands which kinda reduces the threat factor.

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#4792: Jun 17th 2023 at 4:51:37 AM

How someone convinced Disney to make a scary Oz movie I'll never know,all I can imagine is their horrified reaction afterwards

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#4793: Jun 17th 2023 at 6:04:51 AM

Interesting that Touchstone lasted up to 2016 despite Disney being willing to do visually mature films like Pirates

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#4794: Jun 17th 2023 at 2:04:48 PM

I do wonder why Disney decided to get rid of Touchstone Pictures. It was nice that Disney had another company that were able to make mature movies under their name.

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#4795: Jun 17th 2023 at 2:51:40 PM

@Rabbitearsblog I suspect it's down to not needing to.

To my understanding, Touchstone Pictures for a very long time wasn't a separate company from Disney in any meaningful way. It was essentially an alternate pen name or the film industry equivalent of a virtual brand.

Essentially, Disney wants to make more mature movies, but feared that the Disney Brand might be harmful to the movie (or vice-versa). People might assume the mature movie is for kids, or they might not believe that the guys at Disney could make a mature movie.

So, what did they do? They have their regular Disney team make the mature movie...and then just slap a different company's logo on it! Still a product by the same people, but people might approach it with different expectations than if they had openly sold it as a Disney product.

Nowadays, Disney is a bit more expansive and I don't think they need to pretend to be another company.

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#4796: Jun 17th 2023 at 4:54:09 PM

Yeah I remember reading how Roger Rabbit and Nightmare Before Christmas were going to be released under the Disney banner, but Disney got cold feet with both filns, and released them under Touchstone.

In fact Nightmare was going to be a part of the Disney Animated Canon before the switch, which explains why there was no Disney animated feature film in 1993.

Edited by Brandon on Jun 17th 2023 at 4:54:45 AM

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#4797: Jun 18th 2023 at 5:31:37 AM

Judging by the last few years of Touchstone seems like they ended up as a distribution company.

Edited by Ookamikun on Jun 18th 2023 at 8:31:45 PM

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#4798: Jun 18th 2023 at 1:15:35 PM

Aside from Touchstone, Disney had Hollywood Pictures too, and I believe they owned Miramax for awhile. Their goal with all of them was to expand the kinds of films they could produce without incurring any perceived "stain" on the Disney label.

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#4799: Jul 12th 2023 at 4:09:24 PM

I predict if Disney tried to a live action movie based off their Basil of Baker street movie they would absolutely have live action humans as actual characters alongside the mouse people

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#4800: Jul 12th 2023 at 4:59:49 PM

Edit: Just reread your post. That's not at all what you were saying. Sorry.

Edited by Brandon on Jul 12th 2023 at 5:00:26 AM

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