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OK, this is getting ridiculous.

Disney to Adapt Iconic 'Fantasia' Sequence Into Live-Action Movie (Exclusive)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... nce-799554

Indeed.

I was going to start a new thread about this, haha.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOB0lU_1kMc[/youtube]

Is nothing sacred anymore?

I don't even know how to respond to this...

These live-action remakes are DTV cheapquels of the new millennium.

Mooky wrote:These live-action remakes are DTV cheapquels of the new millennium.

You said it.

This is actually a story I would like to see turned into a movie…. but reading that it will probably get the Maleficent treatment makes me sick…..Chernabog is practically the Devil….and I don't want to see how the devil was presumably a good creature….It's evil…

A live action version of this would have to be very dark...

Toky wrote:This is actually a story I would like to see turned into a movie…. but reading that it will probably get the Maleficent treatment makes me sick…..Chernabog is practically the Devil….and I don't want to see how the devil was presumably a good creature….It's evil…

A live action version of this would have to be very dark...

I agree with everything this post says.

If I had to choose any of the live-action reboot ideas floating around Disney to make into a single film, this is already my definite pick. Since there's no set story, it's just an excuse to take one of Disney's most awesome-yet-underused villains and build a plot around him. I'm okay with that, because Chernabog could look amazing with modern special effects and there's so much potential for story.

Then again, The Sorcerer's Apprentice wasn't very good...

Whatever, even if they do go the Maleficient route, I can't wait to see how Disney attempts to redeem the devil (although I doubt they will, because every live action Disney reboot announcement seems to mention Maleficient. Even the ones that aren't villain-redemption stories like Maleficient, for example Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast. Disney probably just refers to Maleficient because it's a success story of a reboot gone profitable).

It is getting a bit ridiculous, but I don't see all of these live-action adaptations seeing the light of day. I'm sure some of them will never make it to production.

Dracula Untold was a massive dud, and a perfect example of how NOT to write a movie... And it underperformed! Why anyone, let alone DISNEY, hire him to scribe a beloved segment and produce it?! Seriously...

Although.. with the recent success of horror movies, it does seem kinda smart for Disney to venture into that market. But then again... they're Disney..

Mooky wrote:These live-action remakes are DTV cheapquels of the new millennium.

You read my mind, but only it's worse because it's Disney's way of saying, "OH! OH! LOOK WHAT WE DID TO THIS MOVIE! IT'S SOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL! WHO'S WALT DISNEY? WHAT'S 2D? THIS IS THE ONLY VERSION THAT MATTERS. FORGET THE ORIGINAL VERSION."



How are all of these remakes getting approved? Is that hard to think of something new? Where's Iger in all of this? Are they doing this as a desperate campaign of 2D animation, being dead?

Bizarre.

I could see potential for this in the right hands, but with Disney you know it's going to be a mess like their other live-action films. The benefit is almost all-original material.

disneyprincess11 wrote:You read my mind, but only it's worse because it's Disney's way of saying, "OH! OH! LOOK WHAT WE DID TO THIS MOVIE! IT'S SOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL! WHO'S WALT DISNEY? WHAT'S 2D? THIS IS THE ONLY VERSION THAT MATTERS. FORGET THE ORIGINAL VERSION."

Aside from wanting to advertise their new products, I find little evidence to suggest this is the sentiment behind the live action remakes. In fact, I think Disney's making them further from the source material to avoid such sentiments. It seems like fans who are so incredibly fearful that anyone would put a remake above the original are the ones pushing this idea. It reads as a really irrational fear to me. The originals are never going anywhere, and no one forces anyone to see a new movie. If it appears desperate, let it flop or run its course. Life is much more enjoyable that way.

Tangled wrote:Whatever, even if they do go the Maleficent route, I can't wait to see how Disney attempts to redeem the devil (although I doubt they will, because every live action Disney reboot announcement seems to mention Maleficent. Even the ones that aren't villain-redemption stories like Maleficent, for example Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast. Disney probably just refers to Maleficent because it's a success story of a reboot gone profitable).

If they keep mentioning Maleficent, how does that lead you to doubt they will go the redemption route?

Disney's Divinity wrote:Bizarre.

I could see potential for this in the right hands, but with Disney you know it's going to be a mess like their other live-action films. The benefit is almost all-original material.

Enchanted, Saving Mr. Banks and Cinderella (2015) weren't train wrecks.

DON'T YOU DARE.

YOU STAY AWAY FROM CHERNABOG!

YOU STAY

AWAY

FROM CHERNABOG!!

taei wrote:Dracula Untold was a massive dud, and a perfect example of how NOT to write a movie... And it underperformed! Why anyone, let alone DISNEY, hire him to scribe a beloved segment and produce it?! Seriously...

You can't really judge how the writers will do, based on their only produced screenplay. In fact, it's very likely they weren't even hired because of Dracula Untold. Up and coming screenwriters are usually hired by Hollywood studios based on a spec script, which budding writers use to find interest from agents and studios (these are what tend to end up on the Blacklist). And in the case of Dracula Untold, since that was their first credited screenplay, who knows how much the director and studio changed before its inception on the screen? It is entirely possible for screenwriter(s) to write something disappointing and then go on to do more impressive work later on, depending on the control they're given or the director their project is paired with.

Well, well....
So much fuss about me....

Disney....STAHP!

Disney has obviously run out of original ideas. This feels totally redundant.