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I wonder if they've revamped the story.

Ugh, still not interested in this. If Disney can't do fairy tales properly anymore than I'd rather they not do them anymore. Or at least go the Frozen treatment, that the film has nothing to do with the original so they can be viewed as separate entities.

Welp, he spoke too soon. It's safe to say we all saw this coming.

Disney Shelves 'Jack and the Beanstalk' Film 'Gigantic' (Exclusive)
http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/10/breaking- ... -gigantic/

It's so unusual for them to announce that a movie is getting shelved and even release a statement about it. They didn't do that for other projects like King of the Elves. It's a shame. The project had potential. They just needed to make it into a more traditional male-led epic adventure like Aladdin and scrap the idea of a child giantess.

“It’s impossible to know when we begin a project how the creative process will unfold, and sometimes, no matter how much we love an idea or how much heart goes into it, we find that it just isn’t working,” said Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull. “With Gigantic, we’ve come to that point, and although it’s a difficult decision, we are ending active development for now. We are focusing our energies on another project that has been in the works, which we’ll be sharing more about soon, now set for Thanksgiving 2020."

Details regarding the new project were not revealed, although insiders said it would be an original feature.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... ic-1047482

Sotiris wrote:It's so unusual for them to announce that a movie is getting shelved and even release a statement about it. They didn't do that for other projects like King of the Elves. It's a shame. The project had potential. They just needed to make it into a more traditional male-led epic adventure like Aladdin and scrap the idea of a child giantess.

I'm glad they did. Would hate for it to disappear out of nowhere.

And that was exactly the problem. It tried to be Tangled meets Wreck-It Ralph. In other words, every single Disney movie they made this era. J&tB is a huge and epic adventure. It doesn't need dress-up and tea parties. It needs adventure and action like Aladdin.

disneyprincess11 wrote: It tried to be Tangled meets Wreck-It Ralph. In other words, every single Disney movie they made this era. J&tB is a huge and epic adventure. It doesn't need dress-up and tea parties. It needs adventure and action like Aladdin.

Right. The relationship between Jack and Irma seemed to be the focus of the film and that dynamic seemed too similar to that of Ralph and Vanellope. They could have done a lot a interesting stuff with a story like Jack and the Beanstalk as the basis if only they would step away from their formula of an unlikely duo going on a road trip for once.

I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that. The original story treatment still sounded promising but scrapping the supporting cast for Inma was an uninspired choice. I am curious what Disney will do now since they have no animated films announced aside from Wreck-It Ralph 2.

It's weird though. It seems like they just finally got their *poop* together with them hiring the crew members and such. I feel so devastated for them and especially Nathan Greno. It was fun to watch this grow over the years, but I knew in my heart it wasn't going to happen. A shame.

So WDAS have basically nothing except sequels now. Yay John Lasseter

rodrigo_ca wrote:So WDAS have basically nothing except sequels now. Yay John Lasseter

Its replacement is an original movie, thank God

disneyprincess11 wrote:Its replacement is an original movie, thank God

I'll believe it when and if they announce the new movie. Zootopia 2 seems a much more likely candidate to take the 2020 spot.

disneyprincess11 wrote:It's weird though. It seems like they just finally got their *poop* together with them hiring the crew members and such.

Yes, it's strange they announce the film is shelved so soon after that other news. But like you said, it's not unexpected either. It's a real shame. I don't know why it's so difficult for Disney to adapt this story. It's not the first time the project of adapting Jack and the Beanstalk has been cancelled. The original story is very good. Maybe the problem is that they already have a film about the tale, and they don't want to do a straight adaptation to differentiate it from Mickey and the Beanstalk. I agree with what some of you are saying, if they made it closer to the fairytale, they wouldn't have so many problems.

JeanGreyForever wrote:I am curious what Disney will do now since they have no animated films announced aside from Wreck-It Ralph 2.

They also have Frozen 2. It hasn't been confirmed that the film that will replace Gigantic is an original movie, so the only original film in the schedule from Disney or Pixar after this year's Coco is now the untitled Dan Scanlon film about a suburban fantasy world.

I was actually looking forward to this movie. One can only hope that it will be picked up again later. But considering it was supposed to be released in 2020, it could be ten years into the future if ever, and that's longer than I care to think about.

Sotiris wrote:

disneyprincess11 wrote:Its replacement is an original movie, thank God

I'll believe it when and if they announce the new movie. Zootopia 2 seems a much more likely candidate to take the 2020 spot.

I would hope that's the case, but after the direction they've been going with Wreck-It Ralph 2, I'm worried they'll find a way to botch up Zootopia's sequel as well.

I was looking forward to this movie!

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that. The original story treatment still sounded promising but scrapping the supporting cast for Inma was an uninspired choice. I am curious what Disney will do now since they have no animated films announced aside from Wreck-It Ralph 2.

From all the information I have, it sounded like Aline Brosh McKenna brought her Cinderella pitch to Disney and it must have been the story where Cinderella is cast out and left for dead for trying to stop the prince marrying a girl in an evil political plot, and she fights her through a forest and finds a rogue knight. But when they realized the Cinderella story was remixed so many ways before, they decided it was best to play it straight. It also sounded like they made it straight before Kenneth got on board.

I would like Disney to do Jack and the Beanstalk traditionally but honestly I wouldn't mind if they did the Tangled and Frozen route. Those movies aren't bad, after all.

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that.

The sad thing is in regards to traditional fairy tale films that they seem rare to the post-Shrek world we're living in now where it's all about cynicism and making fun of early tropes because if it's sincere, it's either too "girly" or "too baby-ish". That and people will look for issues with "plot holes" that if explained would ruin the mystery and magic. I don't need to know why the people in Belle's village aren't aware of the enchanted castle. I don't need to know why Maleficent is evil.

Disney Duster wrote:I was looking forward to this movie!

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that. The original story treatment still sounded promising but scrapping the supporting cast for Inma was an uninspired choice. I am curious what Disney will do now since they have no animated films announced aside from Wreck-It Ralph 2.

From all the information I have, it sounded like Aline Brosh McKenna brought her Cinderella pitch to Disney and it must have been the story where Cinderella is cast out and left for dead for trying to stop the prince marrying a girl in an evil political plot, and she fights her through a forest and finds a rogue knight. But when they realized the Cinderella story was remixed so many ways before, they decided it was best to play it straight. It also sounded like they made it straight before Kenneth got on board.

I would like Disney to do Jack and the Beanstalk traditionally but honestly I wouldn't mind if they did the Tangled and Frozen route. Those movies aren't bad, after all.

I'm glad Disney got to their senses then, especially since Cinderella was their first critical live-action success (unless you count Oz which was more mixed) in recent years. Not to mention, I'm sure the Cinderella we got was far better for merchandising which is what Disney mostly cares about anyway.

I like Frozen, but it has nothing in common with The Snow Queen except that both have northern settings and a single reindeer, so since the film essentially follows no source material, I can love it on its own. Tangled, as you know, I have no love for, both as a Rapunzel adaptation, but also as a film when viewed separate of the original source material. There's not a single character I find endearing (unlike Frozen where I basically love them all), not a single good song, and I find the mishmash of historical eras, countries, clothing, etc. really jarring. Gigantic may have had the songwriters of Frozen, but the plot sounded way more like something cooked from Tangled and even the song that was previewed wasn't well-received.

Tristy wrote:

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that.

The sad thing is in regards to traditional fairy tale films that they seem rare to the post-Shrek world we're living in now where it's all about cynicism and making fun of early tropes because if it's sincere, it's either too "girly" or "too baby-ish". That's the issue I am taking with the Peter Rabbit movie that's being released by Sony.

I'm actually a fan of the first few Shreks but I don't understand why every fairy tale film after has to resemble it, especially all these years later. Enchanted was a great return to form imo and Cinderella especially, and while neither clobbered the box office, both were hits especially at a time when Disney needed them either critically or commercially.
I saw that trailer of Peter Rabbit and I was pretty horrified. I had high hopes especially after Paddington, which I wasn't expecting to be a true family friendly classic at all, but I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

Tristy wrote:

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm so glad this film has finally been scrapped. Haven't been excited for it since day one. Disney cannot make traditional fairy tale films anymore it seems except maybe the live-action Cinderella and from what I remember Disney Duster saying, that was mostly because of Kenneth Branagh's vision for the film. I think Disney wanted to make her a warrior princess who doesn't want to marry a prince or some nonsense like that.

The sad thing is in regards to traditional fairy tale films that they seem rare to the post-Shrek world we're living in now where it's all about cynicism and making fun of early tropes because if it's sincere, it's either too "girly" or "too baby-ish". That's the issue I am taking with the Peter Rabbit movie that's being released by Sony.

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm actually a fan of the first few Shreks but I don't understand why every fairy tale film after has to resemble it, especially all these years later. Enchanted was a great return to form imo and Cinderella especially, and while neither clobbered the box office, both were hits especially at a time when Disney needed them either critically or commercially.
I saw that trailer of Peter Rabbit and I was pretty horrified. I had high hopes especially after Paddington, which I wasn't expecting to be a true family friendly classic at all, but I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

I think we get so many fairy tale films that are practically parodies because as I've said we are living in a cynical age. And when the imdb message boards were around or whatever, you keep getting all these weird theories that maybe characters act a certain way out of more negative reasons or people digging in too deeply looking for things to be offended by.

ugh nooo! I was so looking forward to this one.

I hope they aren't giving up on adapting fairy tales or making original fairy tale/folktale type films(like Moana). They seem to be the more profitable films for them anyway as far as long term prospects. Look how many years its been since Tangled and it still makes money for them thanks to the new tv show.

Who cares. The whole thing from top to bottom sounded like something I wouldn't care for and the title was pathetic, even compared to Tangled and Frozen.

Hopefully the Lopezes get another (original) project.