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Five unfilmed Pooh stories? Hmmm...These are the stories found in the two chapter Pooh books (I'm noy including the poetry compilations). Blue means it's been adapted by "Many Adventures." Red means it's been adapted by "Piglet's Big Movie:"

Winnie-the-Pooh
1. In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin
2. In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
3. In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
4. In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
5. In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
6. In Which Eeyore has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents*
7. In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath
8. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
9. In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
10. In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party and We Say Goodbye

The House at Pooh Corner
1. In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore
2. In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast
3. In Which a Search Is Organdized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again
5. In Which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees
6. In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings
7. In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In*
8. In Which Tigger Is Unbounced
9. In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing
10. In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It
11. In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, and We Leave Them There

* These was adapted into the featurette "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore", which some TV airings edit into the "Many Adventures" feature.

So if Disney combines the two Heffalump stories into one segment (or dumps the sequel portion), then we do, indeed, have five stories. Here's hoping Disney tweaks them enough to make them work. All of them are charming chapters, but there's a reason why they weren't previously chosen for adaptation: not much happens in them. Disney's going to have to take a bit more creative license with these than they did with the other chapters in order for each segment to feel like it's going somewhere. Still, it excites me that this is Milne-centered as it'll remove the temptation to make it pandering like the past few Pooh films have been.

In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings

this title made me

john lasetter was right about winnie the pooh being funny to even adults despite people thinking it's a strictly kids movie - here in australia i don't think children even realize 'many adventures' even exist.

Disneykid wrote: 4. In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One

This was confirmed to be one of the three segments today by John Lasseter at the D23 Expo. He even showed some concept art from this sequence.

Anyone who knows if this will be added to the canon or not? If a movie like Dinosaur could be included, as well as the first Winnie the Pooh movie (which was just a collection of three earlier shorts), I can't see why this one should be excluded as long as it is the main studio that produce it.

Already discussed in this thread

albert

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen ... 283255.stm

Has anyone else heard about this? I wonder if this new character or these new stories will be used.

For the 2011 film, I think we've established that the remaining Milne stories will be used, but I also wonder if the new Pooh book will inspire any upcoming Pooh projects.

PrinceAbubu wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen ... 283255.stm

Has anyone else heard about this? I wonder if this new character or these new stories will be used.

I was wondering that too. I'm sure they will take the opportunity to include the new character, that just means they can sell more merchandise. Disney loves those sort of opportunities.

Sadly, Lottie will probably get used and not Lumpy.

Yes, I'm still harping on the fact I want Lumpy back!

blackcauldron85 wrote:For the 2011 film, I think we've established that the remaining Milne stories will be used, but I also wonder if the new Pooh book will inspire any upcoming Pooh projects.

I agree. Considering the fact that the 2011 film is already towards the end of the writing stage (they already know which three segments of the Milne books they are adapting), I think it's safe to say that Lottie will not be in this film (and Lumpy probably won't be as well).

It's interesting to watch what Disney is doing with the Pooh franchise. They canceled My Friends Tigger and Pooh and then announced the first cannon sequel to Many Adventures. And now Home Entertainment is quickly rereleasing most of the non-cannon sequels and compilations (The Tigger Movie, Heffalump Halloween, Seasons of Giving, A Valentine For You) as if this is the last year in which they will be allowed to release some of these.

Could it be that David Benedictus (the author of the new book) may have contacted Disney about the new book. I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of people that don't even know of a book before Disney's adaptation. It would seem a wise business move on both companies part to add Lottie in the new 2D film, and use at least one story from the new book. The cross promotion would be perfect, and the timing of all of this seems a little uncanny.

Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/ ... -pooh.aspx

I'm so excited! As I think I've said before, the Pooh films have never been my favorites, but at the same time, I think that they're cute and I love the characters. I'm excited to finally see them on the big screen (I didn't see The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, or Pooh's Heffalump Movie in theaters.

I'm really excited for this. Thanks for the article, Amy!

Does anybody think that should release a new 2 disc version of the original film for a couple of reasons.

1. I would go grwat with the new film and could also be on bluray

and 1. They can't say it won't sell because pooh makes like 3 billion dollars a year, so if it doesn't sell as expected they still have the rest of that 3 billion and it is very important.

Just saying

schoollover wrote:Does anybody think that should release a new 2 disc version of the original film for a couple of reasons.

1. I would go grwat with the new film and could also be on bluray

and 1. They can't say it won't sell because pooh makes like 3 billion dollars a year, so if it doesn't sell as expected they still have the rest of that 3 billion and it is very important.

Just saying

I agree with Reason #1, it could potentially be on Blu-Ray. I'm a little iffy on Reason #1 though, because every company would be concerned about one title not making as much money as they hoped, even though their company as a whole makes "like 3 billion dollars a year".

albert

The budget of the new Winnie the Pooh movie will only be $35 million. Get ready for some DTV animation quality. Will this be the cheapest WDAS film ever made?

Finally, since there's been discussion here about what The Princess and the Frog really cost (the Wall Street Journal quotes a $150 million figure), I went to a Wise Old Disneyite who is in a position to know. She said:

"Management's told us that they want to 'do Winnie the Pooh for $35 million, which they said was one third of the P and F budget. Do the math. Thirty-five times three is $105 million."

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... -hall.html

Even the late 60s-early 70s Winnie the Pooh shorts (that this film will be trying to emulate) didn't have the most expensive animation. I hardly think that means this will look like The Tigger Movie, especially if it's being made by Walt Disney Feature Animation.

sotiris2006 wrote:The budget of the new Winnie the Pooh movie will be...$35 million. Only! (which is the one third of the Princess and the Frog budget)

Get ready for Direct-to-Video quality animation.

Will this be the cheapest Disney animated canon film ever made?

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... -hall.html

Winnie the Pooh never had the most expensive animation, plus The Princess and the Frog has had the retooling of the entire story. That would amount to higher costs. The Pooh movie should have a normal production, so it would be cheaper than that. I wouldn't be worried.

Actually, if the budget was too high, I would be concerned that they would be trying too many fancy-schmancy special-effects type stuff. Pooh belongs to a simple world, not very expensive to create. It's much better this way.

There isn't a cast of characters to be designed here. No art direction to be experimented with. It's classic Pooh, and Disney's archives provide all the necessary tools and reference material in order to make a Pooh film. There is no reason why it would have to cost more than $35 million. I would actually be worried if this movie came with a $105 million price tag.