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What fairy tales/books/legends would like to see Disney make into animated films?

I would love disney to do a good animated "jack and the beanstalk", and before anyone mentions "fun and fancy free", I'd just like to say that I mean a real movie of it, not a "segment". That story has so much potential, and let's face it, we've not had a good male lead since Tarzan in '99!!!

I'd love to see Disney do their own animated version of The Wizard of Oz that's more in-tune with Baum's original novel than the MGM musical. I know that would never fly, though, since the public would perceive it as a remake rather than a separate adaptation (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory faced this problem, though it still managed to do phenomenally, so there may be hope for a successful Disney Oz). The box office failure of Return to Oz may also scare Disney away from such a project even though audiences only responded that way because the film was live-action, making them assume it was a sequel to Wizard of Oz the film, not the book.

As much as I love Mickey's Christmas Carol, I would also like to see Disney make the story into a full-length animated feature, with human characters. I doubt they would make full-length theatrical feature that would only be watched one month out of the year, but you never know. I can never have too many versions of this story.

The Snow Queen, I have a live-action version starring Bridget Fonda. Unless they already have and I just never knew about it

A few years ago, "The Snow Queen" was at least a rumor...

I've always thought that "Rumplestilskin" would make a great Disney movie. And "The Goose Girl" (I liked that story growing up). Maybe they could make more movies about legends (like "Pocahontas" and the "Disney's Legends" shorts). Maybe about different legends about people in different countries...?

The Snow Queen and Rumpelstilskin are good ideas. I always thought Little Red Riding Hood would be good(doubt they'd do it after Hoodwinked).
Also Hansel and Gretel.

The Monkey's Paw

I know it's not a fairy/faerie tale, but it is a great story. I think that Disney could really pull this off, probably as a short subject (~20-30 minutes). I see it as being very stylized, kind of like a Mary Blair drawing, but not abstract as her paintings. The story is kind of disturbing, so it may not be suitable for children. Go PG rating!

Here is some pretty bad acting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhqLd1o ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp1pAPY5 ... ed&search=

Robin Hood with human characters.

Puss in Boots-Though people might confuse it with the character from Shrek.

The Emperors New Clothes-It would get some controversery because of the title and might get confused with TENG.

Pocahontas: The Little Hunchback Mermaid of Notre Dame

or an animated version of Babes in Toyland

I would like disney to animate Aida, I've never really understood why this was never an option.

The Wizard Of Oz would be awsome for Disney Animators to due it can have both elements of the MGM musicial and L. Frank Baum's classic.

I'm pretty much agreeing with most of you.... Rumplestilskin, The Snow Queen... and Aida! It'd be perfect.

I certainly agree with The Snow Queen. I'd also love to see Ye Xian, the Chinese version of Cinderella. I love nearly every form of Cinderella, and am greatly interested in Chinese culture.

Aida was in consideration, and there even awesome characer designs. I've never seen the play, but the characters are some of the best I've seen, very original and nothing like disney has done before. http://www.animationarchive.net/Deleted ... _large.jpg

I would love to see Disney do animated version of the Phantom of the Opera. Or a Disney Version of The Nutcracker.

my vote is for disney nutcracker...great idea....that sounds the best of all the ones i read so far!!!

steven132 wrote:Aida was in consideration, and there even awesome characer designs. I've never seen the play, but the characters are some of the best I've seen, very original and nothing like disney has done before. http://www.animationarchive.net/Deleted ... _large.jpg

They look like they should be on some lame saturday morning cartoon. No offense, but I'm glad it wasn't made.

I'd like more international fairytales like Aladdin, or with mythical creatures (eg. The Little Mermaid). It's funny: growing up, the words "Disney" and "Fairy Tale" were synonymous (sp?). I don't know many fairytales that I wasn't introduced to by Disney, and don't know what it's like to see Disney's interpretion of a story I grew up with (this will change, however, with Rapunzel and Frog Princess). I honestly don't know what I'd like for them to do next, except that I would love for Disney to make a musical, hand-drawn animated feature based on an international fairytale I'd never heard of, but a fairytale nonetheless.

TheSequelofDisney wrote:The Monkey's Paw

I know it's not a fairy/faerie tale, but it is a great story. I think that Disney could really pull this off, probably as a short subject (~20-30 minutes). I see it as being very stylized, kind of like a Mary Blair drawing, but not abstract as her paintings. The story is kind of disturbing, so it may not be suitable for children. Go PG rating!

Here is some pretty bad acting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhqLd1o ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp1pAPY5 ... ed&search=

Gotta love high school video projects! *sigh* That brought back memories. Used to do the same thing for our local access cable show Monthly Rewind, back in my senior year of high school.

Anyways, I'd still like to see The Velveteen Rabbit brought to life by way of Disney Animation. Sure, it's pretty much Pinocchio with a stuffed rabbit, but I always saw it as so much more (and wrote a play for my Children's Theatre class with my interpretation of it).

Escapay