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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

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#5876: May 26th 2025 at 11:34:32 AM

Cruella though, has style and personality and some damn good twists.

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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#5877: May 26th 2025 at 11:45:21 AM

Well, I suppose it’s a subjective matter. I’ll just say that I prefer Cruella and drop it.

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Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#5879: May 26th 2025 at 12:01:10 PM

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?

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Dictionaryman616 Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#5880: May 26th 2025 at 12:06:53 PM

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.

BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#5881: May 26th 2025 at 12:09:45 PM

Good. I don’t even want them thinking about Gravity Falls or Owl House without the creators’ involvement.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#5882: May 26th 2025 at 1:30:46 PM

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."
BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#5883: May 26th 2025 at 1:38:10 PM

Fair point. It helps to think of it as an alternate universe take on the material.

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Kiobi20 Since: Sep, 2016
#5884: May 26th 2025 at 2:56:02 PM

If you look at it from this perspective maybe it could make more sense—you're looking at it from Cruella's point of view—how much of it can you really trust? You could argue that she's not as sympathetic as she presents herself as; she's just biased.

Edited by Kiobi20 on May 26th 2025 at 2:56:28 AM

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#5885: May 26th 2025 at 3:00:09 PM

[up]Also valid, if not more so than my view.

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Ego-Man25 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#5886: May 26th 2025 at 3:00:23 PM

[up][up] 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.
Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#5887: May 26th 2025 at 3:00:28 PM

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.

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TomWithoutJerry Tyranny Bad, Democracy Good. from Where Might Makes Right and I have no Might. Since: Dec, 2023
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#5888: May 27th 2025 at 6:32:47 AM

It didn't have Emma Watson to complete the trifecta, 0/10.

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king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Have Faun
#5889: May 27th 2025 at 6:40:01 AM

Weirdly, 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.

Kiobi20 Since: Sep, 2016
#5890: May 27th 2025 at 7:11:15 AM

[up] 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.

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#5891: May 27th 2025 at 7:12:43 AM

I wouldn't count the Live Action Evil Queen as a good adaptation.

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#5892: May 27th 2025 at 7:16:09 AM

Glenn Close still unmatched.

Kiobi20 Since: Sep, 2016
#5893: May 27th 2025 at 7:32:58 AM

[up][up] I disagre but that wasn't the point, the point was that they were more faithful because they were allowed to be evil as well as over-the-top that's the point.

king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Have Faun
#5894: May 27th 2025 at 7:33:08 AM

[up][up][up][up]I don't disagree that them being anti-villains is a big change, what I'm saying is that in many ways their personality is more similar to the original films.

[up][up]Yeah, she straight up is just Cruella De Ville but live-action. Perfect casting.

Edited by king15 on May 27th 2025 at 2:33:38 PM

TomWithoutJerry Tyranny Bad, Democracy Good. from Where Might Makes Right and I have no Might. Since: Dec, 2023
Tyranny Bad, Democracy Good.
#5895: May 27th 2025 at 7:48:30 AM

The problem with the Evil Queen was Gal Gadot wasn't enough of a good hammy actress to sell that kind of role. A different thespian might not have saved the script but at least might've made it sound better.

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Kiobi20 Since: Sep, 2016
#5896: May 27th 2025 at 8:21:30 AM

[up] except the evil queen was never that hammy, she was actually more restrained, she was only really over the top on her old hag form, but let's totally ignored that right?, considering that Gal gadot actually did ok

king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#5898: May 27th 2025 at 8:26:02 AM

[up][up] 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.

[up] 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

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5899: May 27th 2025 at 8:40:24 AM

The 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.

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#5900: May 27th 2025 at 8:41:41 PM

Since I never watched Cruella, did Emma Thompson do the iconic laugh?


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