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disneyprincess11 wrote:No news (Most likely this August, we'll get something), but look what I found while I was reading that foolish article from LATimes that was saying that Tangled was the last fairytale:

"Films and genres do run a course," said Pixar Animation Studios chief Ed Catmull, who along with director John Lasseter oversees Disney Animation. "They may come back later because someone has a fresh take on it … but we don't have any other musicals or fairy tales lined up." Indeed, Catmull and Lasseter killed two other fairy tale movies that had been in development, "The Snow Queen" and "Jack and the Beanstalk."

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21 ... d-20101121

Interesting that this was the only official confirmation we have in this movie. Also, it's weird that the next day this was released, Disney took it on Facebook to call the article "100% false". I wonder if this was pre-written and they were just waiting to see if Tanged failed to make this article public.

disneyprincess11 wrote:Interesting that this was the only official confirmation we have in this movie.

disneyprincess11 wrote:Also, it's weird that the next day this was released, Disney took it on Facebook to call the article "100% false". I wonder if this was pre-written and they were just waiting to see if Tanged failed to make this article public.

Sotiris wrote:

disneyprincess11 wrote:Interesting that this was the only official confirmation we have in this movie.

I'm not sure if that was even the same movie. That version was to be directed by Chris Buck.

Sotiris wrote:Before Tangled's success, the plan was indeed to stop producing more movies based on fairy tales because fairy tales weren't considered commercial in the aftermath of TPatF's under-performance. But when the article got published, there was a huge backlash and controversy over this and so Catmull retracted and blamed the article for misinterpreting his words. At least, that's my understanding of what happened.

A headline in today’s LA Times erroneously reported that the Disney fairy tale is a thing of the past, but I feel it is important to set the record straight that they are alive and well at Disney and continue this week with Tangled, a contemporary retelling of a much loved story. We have a number of projects in development with new twists that audiences will be able to enjoy for many years to come. - Ed Catmull

Greno and Howard are working on their next film, which he says is an original story, not an adaptation of a classic tale. The title is “Giants,” with a release set for sometime in 2018. The story is loosely based on the fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk.” We take it with a title like that, it’s a big project — though Greno couldn’t say more about it.

disneyprincess11 wrote:Ummmm.....if it is loosely based on Jack & the Beanstalk, then it is an adaption of a classic tale?

[UPDATE] As for Briggs’ different film, he followed up to say there’s something else he’s on full-time that has yet to be announced.

disneyprincess11 wrote:Paul Briggs is working on Giants!

Paul Briggs wrote:Actually, I’m very lucky to be working on a film with Dean Wellins right now who not only worked on The Iron Giant but is insanely talented too.

Prince Kido wrote:Nope.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is acquiring Beanstalk, a revisionist take on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale that is based on a detailed outline by Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan. Gilligan has tapped Thomas Schnauz–who has won two Emmys writing for both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul–to write the script. Gilligan will eye it as a possible directing vehicle, but it’s very early days on the project. Gilligan and Mark Johnson will produce. The most recent crack at the fable was the Bryan Singer-directed Jack The Giant Slayer, a pretty good movie that unfortunately cost about what it grossed globally.

unprincess wrote:yeah, they have this and also a new version of Big Friendly Giant with Spielberg. I have a feeling they canned Giants, b/c the other 2 giant projects are less risky.

OH right he also said that when he originally pitched Frozen to John Lasseter he pitched 3 other ideas at the same time (he said that John asks everyone to suggest more than one idea because if you’re only focused on developing one idea to pitch then you have a much more personal attachment to it which will be more upsetting if it gets rejected)
one of them was for a movie set in the Amazon that was rejected for feeling too similar to Madagascar
he couldn’t say anything about the other two because one of them is actually in production right now, John liked it so much that he put it into production as well but under a different director so Chris could work on Frozen
I’m ASSUMING the one that is in production is Giants, because Byron Howard was the one who pitched Zootopia, and Ron Clements & John Musker pitched Moana in 2011 after Mort was cancelled

http://kristoffbjorgman.tumblr.com/post ... originally

@brendonconnelly They are separate projects, but don't assume both will make it all the way through development.

@brendonconnelly At least 18 months from actual animation production, I understand. A long way to go yet.

disneyprincess11 wrote:He couldn't say anything about the other two because one of them is actually in production right now, John liked it so much that he put it into production as well but under a different director so Chris could work on Frozen.

Mike Gabriel wrote:I am gratefully production designing Nathan Greno's next film.

Mike Gabriel wrote:I'm working on one now that's coming out in 2018. It's going to be good. It's going to be special. It's a fairy tale, it's going to be a musical, and to know I'm still in that game, doing these stuff is too good to be true.