Re: Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (Live-Action)
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:49 pm
We now have another credible source reporting on Walt's frustration with Alice and not wanting to adapt classic literature.Warm Regards wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 2:07 pmWalt tried to alter the storyline to fit the cartoon needs, at one time expanding the role of the White Knight as hero-rescuer. But he was intimidated by the threats of Lewis Carroll purists, and he returned to the original story. During storyboard sessions, Walt tried to maintain his normal enthusiasm, but it was difficult. Animation was as tedious as the story development. Walt kept asking his animators why the drawing was taking so much time. The unspoken answer was that the animators weren’t enjoying it. The animators sometimes arrived at brilliant invention, but it was punishing work. Everyone felt relief when Alice in Wonderland was finished. Especially Walt. He vowed never again to undertake a tamperproof classic.
Source: https://deadline.com/2023/10/walt-disne ... 235578555/Walt was delighted that Mary Poppins had become a hit — grossing about $30 million — but still was angry that, years earlier, he’d been talked into making Alice in Wonderland. “Idiots think whimsy can be easily translated to the screen,” he groused. He resented being pressured to finance a movie based on Don Quixote, sensing that “we’d be crucified if that doesn’t turn out perfectly.” Walt complained that “we’ll do better with The Ugly Dachshund than trying to make classics.”