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JeanGreyForever wrote:

milojthatch wrote:From a financial sense, Disney would be crazy not to. From a creative sense, this current trend of making remakes of their animated films really feels like the end of Disney's creative rope. What the hey are they going to do in 20 years?! I fear the trend that comes next from them!

Make remakes of the remakes.

Hand-drawn remakes of the remakes!!!

Prince Edward wrote:I only hope the fairytale/remake trend will last long enough for Disney to come to Pocahontas

I am not for the live-action remakes, but I question whether Disney will have the "guts" to make Pocahontas, due to potential backlash from the Native American community...

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.

I said it in many times already, but I just can't get past the fact they will add nothing new. It is a CGI remake and that's very dangerous.
I could understand if they were to use actual actors in a Broadway-esque adaptation (with songs from the Broadway musical). But this is just ridiculous.

Sotiris wrote: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.

Unfortunately (*Sighs*). Due to their position and reputation, they will most likely not receive a live action remake.

rodrigo_ca wrote:It is a CGI remake and that's very dangerous. I could understand if they were to use actual actors in a Broadway-esque adaptation (with songs from the Broadway musical).

I couldn't agree more. Besides, we already have a great CG remake of The Lion King.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPmpUTr22c[/youtube]

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.

Can Broadway songs be included? I guess He Lives In You could be kinda epic. Would be epic to play as Simba returns home. There needs to be something that sets this thing apart. Otherwise it's literally as soulless remake

I want to see the Be Prepared (Reprise), which I think in the DVD/Blu-Ray was called The Madness of King Scar.

JeanGreyForever wrote:I want to see the Be Prepared (Reprise), which I think in the DVD/Blu-Ray was called The Madness of King Scar.

You mean the scene where Scar attempts to rape Nala?

DisneyJedi wrote:

JeanGreyForever wrote:I want to see the Be Prepared (Reprise), which I think in the DVD/Blu-Ray was called The Madness of King Scar.

You mean the scene where Scar attempts to rape Nala?

Yes, I think it adds a lot to the film especially to Scar whose character tapers off after the first half of the film.

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Lion King’ Taps Jeff Nathanson As Writer
http://deadline.com/2016/10/lion-king-m ... 201836009/

Jon Favreau to Use VR Tech for Live-Action Lion King
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/7 ... -lion-king

...edit...Sotiris already posted it!

Why is this going to be a thing?! Why?

Every time I'm reminded of the existence this film another part of me dies inside.

I have to admit that how much I liked the live-action The Jungle Book makes me less bothered with this, although TJB did at least have a human anchor to play off all the CGI.

Sotiris wrote:Remember when Eisner wanted to remake the studio's 2D animated movies in CG? Well, it took a while but it's finally happening.

Perhaps it will be the next trend by Disney? It could happen.

The Lion King & Jungle Book 2 To Be Filmed Back To Back
http://comicbook.com/2016/12/02/the-lio ... k-to-back/

Damn, I wish Cinderella had done well enough for them to do Cinderella: A Twist in Time in live-action...

Disney Duster wrote:Damn, I wish Cinderella had done well enough for them to do Cinderella: A Twist in Time in live-action...

Same. I would have also liked an Oz sequel but I know that wasn't well-received critically even if the box office numbers were good.

Oh cool, you wanted a live-action Twist in Time, too. And yea, I feel Oz left room for like, many sequels, and I would have been interested.