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
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- Winnie the Pooh
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- Dumbo
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- Mulan
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- Pinocchio
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- Night on Bald Mountain from "Fantasia"
- Maleficent sequel
- Prince Charming
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- Aladdin prequel: Genies
- Sword in the Stone
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edited 15th Jul '17 2:12:16 PM by VeryMelon
Well, I suppose it’s a subjective matter. I’ll just say that I prefer Cruella and drop it.
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.So how long do we think it’ll be before they turn to adapting the animated series to live action film (Chip n Dale - another movie I will defend - not withstanding).
I mean, there’s the Gargoyles series in development, and the Kim Possible movie… forgot about those…
So how long before Gravity Falls gets this dubious honor?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Disney TVA is off-limits until they adapt every single Disney Animated Canon film and live-actionize it.
I'm predicting Bolt or the The Princess and the Frog next.
Good. I don’t even want them thinking about Gravity Falls or Owl House without the creators’ involvement.
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.I recently watched Cruella and I can say its actually a good standalone movie, its just a weird 100 Dalmatians prequel.
Like it works as a period heist movie centered around fashion like a more psychotic The Devil Wears Prada, but every time it makes a reference to 100 Dalmatians doesn't make sense because the movie makes too many changes.
The Cruella Deville song especially doesn't make sense in-universe.
Edited by slimcoder on May 26th 2025 at 1:31:00 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Fair point. It helps to think of it as an alternate universe take on the material.
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This is a tactic that some showrunners deliberately employ for shows with villain protags, after all. Unreliable Narrator is a trope that helps to bring subjectivity into these works, where you question what you saw, what was real, and what might have been embellishments. Hell, The Emperor's New Groove is amazing with this.
Edited by Ego-Man25 on May 26th 2025 at 3:00:35 AM
Self-professed Wild Card who thinks cynicism isn't so bad.Honestly. I think I would like Cruella more of the twists were less obvious. There is a lot of fun to be had with the Idea of an evil version of the Devil Wears Prada. Expect the entire time I am just waiting for the twist that I figured out awhile ago. Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are both at least fun though.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadWeirdly, I think Maleficent and Cruella (at least from what I've seen of the latter as I haven't watched it) are in more ways more accurate to the animated versions than some of the other live-action remakes. Some of the live-action remakes turn fun, over-the-top villains into more downplayed, stoics. That's not inherently bad, but part of the fun of Disney villains is that they are, well, Disney villains. With Maleficent and Cruella, though the are Anti-Heroes at worst in those films, they are allowed to be more flamboyant and over-the-top, like the originals.
dude I have to highly disagree with this, being made less flamboyant but still evil is being way more faithful to the original source material than making them over the top but anti-heroes, especially because some live action adaptation still do maintain over-the-topness while keeping them evil, beauty and the beast, the jungle book, the little mermaid, snow white, cinderella, etc...
they're villains, being actually evil should be the most important aspect of their character.
I wouldn't count the Live Action Evil Queen as a good adaptation.
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I disagree. Because the live action one is meant to be over the top but Gal Gadot just couldn't do it. She comes off as a kid in a play not someone who is payed millions of dollars for this.
Yes. She is meant to be that. At least in the animated one.
Edited by Bullman on May 27th 2025 at 10:27:41 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadThe whole idea of the original Evil Queen is that she doesn't go ham until she goes into disguise. It's supposed to be a very stark: she's initially very unemotional and reserved, until she becomes the Old Witch and she lets loose the wild evil inside.
Imo Tremaine is a better example of a classic Disney Cold Ham.

From my memory that style is Maleficent again and personality is an evil Devil Wears Prada but less memorable. Plus, I saw it's twists coming.
Edited by Bullman on May 26th 2025 at 1:37:14 PM
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