Sotiris wrote:Prince Edward wrote:I welcome this news as I see it as one step closer (on a long road) to getting live action remakes of the movies I would really like to see: Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules.
That's not going to happen. Literary any other movie in the canon has more chance of getting remade than Pocahontas and Hunchback. Hercules maybe a little more but I wouldn't hold my breath for that either.
Pocahontas I agree is unlikely but I think Disney knows Hunchback has an audience. Even though the musical didn't make it to Broadway, Disney wouldn't have started production on it if they didn't feel it would be somewhat commercially successful. I think their Hunchback plans were also diverted because of Frozen because nothing tops Frozen nowadays. A cast recording was made and it was a best seller on Amazon from what I've heard.
Hunchback also has a huge audience in Europe, France for obvious reasons, but also Germany where the musical was a big hit (and where the current American musical basically immigrated from). Foreign box offices are just as important nowadays as the domestic box office. There's a reason Marvel movies keep catering to Asian markets like Korea and China, and why The Jungle Book's popularity in India helped to boost its critical and commercial reception way before it even reached the US. I think its sequel was also green-lighted before it even aired in the US.
Also Disney had a limited series Esmeralda TV show for ABC that was in the works a while back but it was cancelled. Now another company is making a live-action Esmeralda film and if that does well, well we've already seen that Disney gets jumpy when other companies adapt "their" stories like with Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Both of these films were confirmed after other filmmakers started work on their versions of the film.
