Disney's Don Quixote??

BigFish · Post by **BigFish** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:37 pm

Jim Hill had an interesting article today that mentioned that Don Quixote was in the works as an animated feature for Disney in the 90s.

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/ ... y-for.aspx

If The Frog Princess is successful in bringing back 2D animation, how great would it be if Don Quixote were back on track as a Disney animated movie musical? It has such great, fun characters and an imaginative, timeless story. Anyone else agree?

numba1lostboy · Post by **numba1lostboy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:12 pm

At this point, I would love to see ANY 2D animation.

jeremy88 · Post by **jeremy88** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:14 pm

Seriousley I mean as long as I see something 2-D any story is cool in which The Little Matchgirl brought back my hope.

Don Quixote sounds interesting though. Im sure Disney could think up something amazing.

Chernabog_Rocks · Post by **Chernabog_Rocks** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:26 am

I too am missing the 2-D, it's so much more personal because the artist drew it by hand frame, by frame. I don't care much for CGI, small amounts of it is ok, like The Big Ben scene in Great Mouse Detective. Don Quixote does sound interesting, I've never really heard the full story on what it's about, just references to it in other movies,books etc.

UncleEd · Post by **UncleEd** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:46 am

I don’t think Don Quixote will get green lit as it would be an animated epic and that’s what Disney got in trouble for in the first place. I think they’ll be playing it safe with fairy tales and talking animal films for some time.

And for those of you unfamiliar, Don Quixote was first proposed by Walt but he couldn’t escape the dark aspects of the story and you can find tons of pictures and info about it in the fantastic book “The Disney That Never Was”. IN the late 90’s the Brizzi brothers developed it again but the Paris studio shut down before production could begin.

The Disney film I want to see finally made is the grand daddy of them all, Chanticleer and Reynard. Do you think enough time has passed since Rach-A-Doodle to finally give it a go?

mariadny · Post by **mariadny** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:29 am

ufff, the most famous spanish book....
I wish a disney's version, but I think It is impossible

MagicMirror · Post by **MagicMirror** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:19 pm

There is some information and art on Don Quixote at animation archive: http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20A ... 20Quixote/

I personally would have loved to see it. I don't know whether I'm getting confused with Terry Gilliam's version, but I think it is possible that Don Quixote was going to be voiced by none other than Christopher Lee.
I say this because Lee, in an event I went to a few years ago, mentioned playing Don Quixote in an animated version of the tale.

There have been subsequent quotes from him saying that he wants to play the character - he's even sung the part - but they have been linked by the press to Terry Gilliam's "Death of Don Quixote", in which I think the character is going to be played by John Cleese.

Of course I could be wrong in my assumption, but that would have been great. Even without him, though, it looked to me like a great idea.

SpringHeelJack · Post by **SpringHeelJack** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:09 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Don Quixote" is cursed. It can never be filmed right. At this point, we should stop trying.

Super Aurora · Post by **Super Aurora** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:51 pm

Yea I heard that it was too dark to be made. One illustrator/ concept artist (he did hunchback of Notre dome as well I believe) did an illustration and the exectative fond it to dark and scary so they canceled it.

Anyone know links were I can view the illustrations?

BigFish · Post by **BigFish** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:27 pm

Here's some pretty cool artwork:

http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20A ... /index.php

"I don’t think Don Quixote will get green lit as it would be an animated epic and that’s what Disney got in trouble for in the first place. I think they’ll be playing it safe with fairy tales and talking animal films for some time. "

First of all, I'd say that Don Quixote is probably more of a fairy tale than it is an epic - I mean, the basic concept of the story is the wild adventures he makes up in his loony imagination. And what are you refering to when you say "that's what disney got in trouble for in the first place"? I'd say that The Lion King, Hercules, and Pocohantas are all pretty epic stories, and they by no means got Disney "in trouble."

Super Aurora · Post by **Super Aurora** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:28 pm

He probably reffering to Black Cauldron which was suppose to be an epic story but fail. I think that's what he ment.

UncleEd · Post by **UncleEd** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:59 pm

"First of all, I'd say that Don Quixote is probably more of a fairy tale than it is an epic - I mean, the basic concept of the story is the wild adventures he makes up in his loony imagination. And what are you refering to when you say "that's what disney got in trouble for in the first place"? I'd say that The Lion King, Hercules, and Pocohantas are all pretty epic stories, and they by no means got Disney "in trouble.""

After Beauty & the Beast was nominated for Best Picture, Katzenberg became obsessed with winning the Best Picture Oscar. Lion King and Aladdin were too far along production to change so he tampered with Pocahontas. He surmised thast since animation tailor makes the perfect film that he could tailor make the perfect Oscar winning film. This is why most of the films became epics. Pocahontas, Hunchback, Mulan, Tarzan are all epics with varying success. Hercules was forced upon John and Ron as an animated epic in exchange for Treasure Planet being made. Their humor steered it into more fun waters though but even that didn't escape changes in the story made to accomidate a cheapquel that was never made. The Emperor's New Groove started as an epic called Kingdom in/of the Sun and was shutdown after all of these epics were losing money at the box office. Emperor's New Groove was the result. Even Home on the Range started as a western epic. When Katzenberg went to Dreamworks he only made epic animated films. By trouble I mean they were not financially successful.

By the way, I think Lion King is way over rated. It's not the best film Disney made in the 90's.

BigFish · Post by **BigFish** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:33 am

Aladdin from Agrabah · Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:34 am

Hmm, I'm not a very open-minded person and that's why I want the hero of a 2-D animated classic to be a handsome young man like Aladdin who fights a really terryfying villain for the love of a beautiful princess. A film with an old, comedic guy who fights creatures that only exist in his imagination doesn't sound interesting to me. Don Quixote may be a wonderful book and a real classic, but books are books and films are films.

SpringHeelJack · Post by **SpringHeelJack** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:23 am

But there's many classic Disney movies that don't rely on a young man fighting a villain for a Princess' love already..."Bambi", "Pinocchio", "The Sword in the Stone", "The Rescuers", "Brother Bear" etc., so it's not like it would be too new territory here. A bit different yes, but a wild leap in another direction.

Lars Vermundsberget · Post by **Lars Vermundsberget** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:37 pm

Hm, "not a very open-minded person" - interesting that someone would give such a characterization of oneself!

After all, more that just one strict formula has been used in Disney's "Classics". But, without saying anything about this particular story, it is very true that what works in one medium (such as a book...) may not necessarily work in a different medium.

Aladdin from Agrabah · Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:43 pm

SpringHeelJack wrote:But there's many classic Disney movies that don't rely on a young man fighting a villain for a Princess' love already..."Bambi", "Pinocchio", "The Sword in the Stone", "The Rescuers", "Brother Bear" etc.

...and that's why I don't like these movies!!

The only exception is "The rescuers" because of its dark atmosphere, Madame Medussa and the cute couple; Bernard and Bianca. In a way Bernard is a hero and Bianca is the princess of his heart. Anyway, the fact that I like that movie doesn't mean that it's one of my favourites.
Needles to say also that many of the most popular and successful Disney movies are the Princess Movies. Everybody cares more for a film if there's a princess, a hero and a villain in it, IMO.

Lars Vermundsberget · Post by **Lars Vermundsberget** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:07 pm

Aladdin from Agrabah wrote:Everybody cares more for a film if there's a princess, a hero and a villain in it, IMO.

Wow, that's some "overly simplistic" statement!

deathie mouse · Post by **deathie mouse** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:32 am

BigFish wrote: I mean, the basic concept of the story is the wild adventures he makes up in his loony imagination.

You couldn't be more wrong.

blackcauldron85 · Post by **blackcauldron85** » Sat Oct 06, 2018 1:44 pm

D82 put a link in the Ralph Breaks the Internet thread for a new WIR book, and what other book is on the site?

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book ... 1506712161

At least Disney's doing something with this story!

Treasure Island & Moby Dick are also coming out in Disneyfied graphic novels per that site.

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