Raya and the Last Dragon

[DisneyFan97]

Do you think Alan Tudyk vill have voice role in this ?

[rodrigo_ca]

Raya and the Last Dragon's release date has been occupied by Pixar's Soul, and is now being released in March 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/DisneyStudios/statu ... 0051299335

[Farerb]

I saw that coming. Sad.

[Disney's Divinity]

Darn. I would've rather Soul was delayed to next year, but I guess PIXAR already got screwed with Onward.

[disneyprincess11]

Yup, this was inevitable. There's no way animators could finish this on time.

Really sorry, DisneyFan97

[Farerb]

Yup, this was inevitable. There's no way animators could finish this on time.

They could have. They are working on it from their home.

[Sotiris]

Yes, this is not about finishing the movie on time, but giving Pixar its spot on the release schedule. I'm tired of Disney treating WDAS as the ugly stepchild and Pixar as their golden boy.

[estefan]

I don't think this is a case of Disney showing preference for Pixar. Moving Soul to November was the logical choice, since theatres obviously won't be open in June. March, June and November have now become Disney's preferred months for releasing their animated films, so this was pretty much expected.

Soul is also close to finished, while Raya has many, many scenes left to animate. It's also not unusual for them to tinker with the story even less than a year before a film's release, so they're probably still storyboarding several sequences, too. Disney is not going to sit on a completed animated film for another year, especially when they've already released two trailers.

March is a perfectly fine release for Raya. Zootopia made a billion dollars in that spot, so it may even benefit Raya by opening in the spring.

[DisneyEra]

Following in Gigantic's footsteps. Expect Raya's cancelled announcement this Fall. What a mess for Walt Disney Animation Studios

[Farerb]

Following in Gigantic's footsteps. Expect Raya's cancelled announcement this Fall. What a mess for Walt Disney Animation Studios

Yes cause both are exactly the same situation.

[disneyprincess11]

Yup, this was inevitable. There's no way animators could finish this on time.

They could have. They are working on it from their home.

Yeah, but this isn't a 30-second thing like the Olaf specials, which is put together by one guy. And there's a lot more people on the movie than animators.

Following in Gigantic's footsteps. Expect Raya's cancelled announcement this Fall. What a mess for Walt Disney Animation Studios

There's no comparison to Gigantic on this. Raya is clearly delayed because of coronavirus like how SOUL is moved to November. Gigantic became a cluster *beep* ever after it got negative feedback from D23 Expo and they couldn't find a decent solution. But, I was just thinking how Gigantic is lucky that it got cancelled. Getting moved to ANOTHER year. Its cancellation was again 100% inevitable after it was moved from 2016 to March 2018, THEN to November 2018 and then ALL THE WAY to 20...wait for it....20.

Yes, this is not about finishing the movie on time, but giving Pixar its spot on the release schedule. I'm tired of Disney treating WDAS as the ugly stepchild and Pixar as their golden boy.

Again, clearly not comparable to Soul, which is suffering the same fate as RAYA. But, WDAS really needs to have summer slots again.

[DisneyEra]

When February passed, with NO new announcements, I knew Raya was in trouble. The previous 2 years, there were teaser trailers for both the Ralph/Frozen sequels in February. Nothing, no new announcements have been made since Raya's reveal at D23 last August. So now they're using the Pandemic as an excuse to delay Raya, when prior to the Shutdown in March, they made no official announcements for over 6 months. This film was clearly gonna be delayed even if the Pandemic didn't happen.

[Tristy]

They could have. They are working on it from their home.

Yeah, but this isn't a 30-second thing like the Olaf specials, which is put together by one guy. And there's a lot more people on the movie than animators.

Following in Gigantic's footsteps. Expect Raya's cancelled announcement this Fall. What a mess for Walt Disney Animation Studios

There's no comparison to Gigantic on this. Raya is clearly delayed because of coronavirus like how SOUL is moved to November. Gigantic became a cluster *beep* ever after it got negative feedback from D23 Expo and they couldn't find a decent solution. But, I was just thinking how Gigantic is lucky that it got cancelled. Getting moved to ANOTHER year. Its cancellation was again 100% inevitable after it was moved from 2016 to March 2018, THEN to November 2018 and then ALL THE WAY to 20...wait for it....20.

Yes, this is not about finishing the movie on time, but giving Pixar its spot on the release schedule. I'm tired of Disney treating WDAS as the ugly stepchild and Pixar as their golden boy.

Again, clearly not comparable to Soul, which is suffering the same fate as RAYA. But, WDAS really needs to have summer slots again.

Thank you, disneyprincess for summing up. I know we on this forum are getting so used to everything at Disney just falling through the cracks and getting disappointed and that will probably continue to happen but in this case, just take it easy and relax. Because we are dealing with a huge global issue that's bigger than whether or not a movie is getting released. Believe me. I'd love it if things weren't like this. But they are and it's because of serious issues at hand and I think it's best if we put aside our panicking over Disney doing certain things or sucking up to Pixar (which I do agree that they are doing but that is really besides the point right now.) and just calm down.

[Farerb]

When February passed, with NO new announcements, I knew Raya was in trouble. The previous 2 years, there were teaser trailers for both the Ralph/Frozen sequels in February. Nothing, no new announcements have been made since Raya's reveal at D23 last August. So now they're using the Pandemic as an excuse to delay Raya, when prior to the Shutdown in March, they made no official announcements for over 6 months. This film was clearly gonna be delayed even if the Pandemic didn't happen.

That's nonsense. Disney started promoting all the women who worked on Raya. Ralph's teaser came at the last day of February, and even so both Ralph and Frozen are sequels. Raya is not. Coco's teaser on the other hand was released in March 15th and wow that wasn't cancelled, was it?. I wonder why Raya is the only film you determined to label as having issues when literally all Disney's films were postponed (regardless of the studio). Why would Disney release trailers and teasers when everything is so uncertain at this point.
TBH you spreading misinformation is tiresome at this point.

[UmbrellaFish]

During this pandemic lots of movies have been “delayed indefinitely.” While I expect most of not all of those films to receive a film release at some point, if Disney was going to cancel “Raya” wouldn’t it make more sense to say it was “delayed indefinitely” instead of giving in a concrete release date?

[Farerb]

During this pandemic lots of movies have been “delayed indefinitely.” While I expect most of not all of those films to receive a film release at some point, if Disney was going to cancel “Raya” wouldn’t it make more sense to say it was “delayed indefinitely” instead of giving in a concrete release date?

That's just DisneyEra. They think WDAS won't release anymore films ever for some reason.

[DisneyEra]

When February passed, with NO new announcements, I knew Raya was in trouble. The previous 2 years, there were teaser trailers for both the Ralph/Frozen sequels in February. Nothing, no new announcements have been made since Raya's reveal at D23 last August. So now they're using the Pandemic as an excuse to delay Raya, when prior to the Shutdown in March, they made no official announcements for over 6 months. This film was clearly gonna be delayed even if the Pandemic didn't happen.

That's nonsense. Disney started promoting all the women who worked on Raya. Ralph's teaser came at the last day of February, and even so both Ralph and Frozen are sequels. Raya is not. Coco's teaser on the other hand was released in March 15th and wow that wasn't cancelled, was it?. I wonder why Raya is the only film you determined to label as having issues when literally all Disney's films were postponed (regardless of the studio). Why would Disney release trailers and teasers when everything is so uncertain at this point.
TBH you spreading misinformation is tiresome at this point.

I talking prior to the Pandemic, what did Disney announce new regarding Raya? Having the Animators talk about working on the film is not releasing any new content. I'm not talking about a trailer now, I'm talking about prior to the Shutdown in mid March. So, your saying in December, January or February, Disney couldn't release a teaser or a new piece of concept art regarding Raya? When the prior 2 years they had no problem doing just that? You got people on Twitter now not knowing anything about Raya, let alone it's Thanksgiving release. As for Spreading misinformation, you can believe whatever you want.

[Farerb]

Why would Raya and the Last Dragon have an official Facebook and Twitter if Disney's not sure about releasing it?!

[Farerb]

I talking prior to the Pandemic, what did Disney announce new regarding Raya? Having the Animators talk about working on the film is not releasing any new content. I'm not talking about a trailer now, I'm talking about prior to the Shutdown in mid March. So, your saying in December, January or February, Disney couldn't release a teaser or a new piece of concept art regarding Raya? When the prior 2 years they had no problem doing just that? You got people on Twitter now not knowing anything about Raya, let alone it's Thanksgiving release. As for Spreading misinformation, you can believe whatever you want.

You gotta stop comparing it to how Disney used to promote films back then. They are not doing that anymore because they don't want to come to the same situation where they cancel a film and everyone knowing about it. Why is it so difficult to understand that they are more discrete about their projects now (and not just them but Pixar too) so when they announce a film it's 100% going to be released. We already could tell that they usually start promoting their films 7-9 months so yeah the time to promote Raya came approximately at the same time the pandemic started to spread worldwide. I don't know where you're from, but it gotten really bad at some places by the end of February, it was even bad in the US, but the government acted later than they should have, but I remember hesitating going to Onward because of the Situation. So yeah Disney didn't promote the film because of uncertainty, not because of issues in production. Anyway, if there are problems, you don't go about the people involved with the production, telling about the production, which they did. Probably because they were ready to start promoting the film.

[disneyprincess11]

All movies before RALPH 2 had their teasers first appear in June. I'm guessing RALPH 2 was released early because basically no one knew about the first movie and wanted to remind the world about the first movie. For only everyone to completely forget about the franchise entirely 2 years later. Vanellope isn't even on Disney Princess/Heroine fan art.

Heck, FROZEN 2 might had been released only because Disney was panicking over the overly-negative response to the Blue Genie Super Bowl teaser from the literal night before. If it was truly planned, it would have aired during the Super Bowl.

You're jumping to conclusions and being gloom-and-doom too early on WDAS, DisneyEra. Raya is clearly doing fine.