Disney's Live-Action Thread

The image is real, it may look fake but I seen it streamed live on The Walt Disney Company's Investor Relations section.

Here's the official logo for Lady and The Tramp◊

If it's anything like Dumbo Lady and Tramp will be side characters while the focus is on their human owners,also expect a lot key characters to be cut and the plot to be radically different from animated film

I already see someone getting a headache over what to do with the spaghetti scene.

They'll change to their owners while the dogs look on,alternatively,there is no spaghetti scene.

Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 12th 2019 at 11:27:23 AM

No, they will cut to the restaurant owner and the waiter dancing, singing and their reaction shot .

No Siamese cat song I presume.

Well, they might be daring enough to combine the Siamese cats with the score of the song but without the singing….

Basically It's another human focused film with little in common with the animated film,Disney's live action films are rather predicable

At least the dogs will be voiced unlike in Dumbo.

Would be funny if all their dialogue was stock dog sound effects and the humans basically ended up with all their lines..

Honestly, if they did this, I wouldn't mind if the twist is that this time around, they show the whole story from the perspective of the humans, with the animals not talking at all. At least that could be fun.

I'm sure they'll try to create some backstory to explain why Aunt Sarah hates dogs.

I wonder how they decide on which movies should be made into a live action movie I'm thinking a blindfold and a dartboard approach,not that there's anything wrong with that per say..

Anyway,I've wonder lately about a live action film of The Aristocats

I said this on the Lion King "live action" thread, but I feel like if the way a Disney movie tells its stories and develops its characters is noticeably different from how it would be done now due to societal changes, then it should be remade. I feel like Cinderella (2015) and Maleficent were justified in that regard. Hell, Ella and Aurora both grew personalities beyond “generic, kind, and loves animals.” (Aurora less so, but we got to find out why Maleficent went the way she did, so it's still better character development overall.) The Cinderella remake also made the prince a character in his own right. And for all the criticism that the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland (2010) movies get, his style did make them uniquely different both visually and story-wise, while making references to obscure parts of the source material.^note Like, renaming "Wonderland" as "Underland"? Well, Underland was the original name Lewis Carroll used when he wrote the short story he later turned into the full book. He changed it to Wonderland later.

The films that shouldn't get remade are the ones where it's clear Disney didn't want to change a thing because they think people only want to see the stories they know and love like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, where the original animated versions still work perfectly well from a modern storytelling viewpoint. So they don’t need the remakes. As can be seen from them being almost word-for-word, scene-for-scene copies!

I think the Disney animated films that next deserve live action remakes would be Snow White and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Snow White and the Seven dwarfs won't ever get a remake,Hunchback is a little more likely but all depends on how the ones they're currently releasing do

I reckon The Little mermaid is next remake after The Lion,

Oh,and please take on board what people told you in the other thread,about not hating people who want to see the movies

Yeah, the average Joe won't care much about the originality and artistic merit of a film, they just want a good time so we shouldn't hate or judge them for that.

I do agree that it seem really pointless to remake a film without change it or challenge the original film's ideas. I still hold out for hope that they might want to remake Treasure Planet once their run out of stuff to remake. But the one which remake dreaded me the most is The Emperor New Grove. Just imaginate the terror of photorealistic lama.

See, the first thing that popped in my mind when you said Emperor's New Groove remake is that diner scene and tbh I actually would pay money to see that remake if it was executed well in live-action even with potential uncanny photorealistic CGI llama Kuzco

Edited by Nouct on Apr 14th 2019 at 10:39:31 AM

My first though is the " Pull the level" scene follow by the lab scene. But i think the Emperor New Grove will be pretty hard to remake into life action since it a comedy rely heavily on slapstick and 4 wall joke.

It'd probably end up a lot like a classic Three Stooges film, but obviously much longer.

The genre throwback to Looney Tunes and classic animation, however, means The Emperor's New Groove it's genuinely less adaptable to live action than most of the rest of Disney's animated canon.

Also, Disney seems to hate that movie - - so we're probably not liable to see a remake of any kind for it any time soon.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 14th 2019 at 10:56:44 AM

I doubt they’ll adapt their lesser known films any time soon. They briefly experimented with that by remaking Pete’s Dragon but it bombed, so they’re going to stick to the safe hits.

Pete’s Dragon bombed? News to me.

I think Disney is going for the scattershot approach,if it animated they'll make a live action,if it bombs it bombs,they'll keep doing it till it starts becoming unprofitable

Slight amend: the new Pete’s Dragon just barely made back its budget domestic, and made double total worldwide, but usually double domestic is what studios consider the win condition.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 14th 2019 at 11:10:42 AM

They also barely marketed it and pretty much didn't merchandise it.

IIRC, it was kind of noticeable that Disney didn't expect it to do too well and so didn't put a lot of effort behind pushing it - basically treating it like filler - and then was blindsided by the measure of the response it got: it did get a surprising amount of buzz simply from word of mouth, from what I can recall.

But - unlike their previous, similar blunder with Rey - while the movie did do reasonably well despite the lack of backup, it wasn't enough to get them to retroactively support it.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 14th 2019 at 11:16:50 AM

The movie was just okayish. You can watch it, but it has none of the charm of the original, nor is it even half as memorable. It is kind of ET meets mowgli.