I understand the whole remake thing, and occasional sequels, obviously the Stars Wars and Marvel stuff needs updates to keep the franchise going. If we think about Disney and Pixar, okay Pixar have done sequels and are generally very popular with them, but Disney in the past have rarely done sequels, I think the only part of the Disney Animated Classic canon to be sequels are The Rescuers Down Under, Ralph Breaks the Internet and the upcoming Frozen 2 – the latter of which I understand, considering how much of a juggernaut it has become, but in the same breath, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King were enormous and groundbreaking in the early 90s, but their sequels were all straight-to-vhs. The remakes I think to begin with were a cute idea, and if they were sporadically done it’d be great, but there is such overkill – if you look at ‘Dumbo’, it wasn’t the hit Disney expected. To then be followed almost directly by Aladdin (which while a hit, and very good, isn’t as good as the original when you really think about it), and then 6 weeks after Aladdin we have the new version of The Lion King. Even ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ while cute and enjoyable for what it was wasn’t really a sequel, but a remake – the storyline and song points were exactly the same as the original. In Disney’s lifetime he never saw a sequel, and was big on finding interesting stories to inject some Disney magic, and there are hundreds of fairy tales and mythologies that Disney Animation could take for original movies – Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney’s biggest mistake this century so far in my opinion is shelving ‘Gigantic’). There are also other avenues that could be tried, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ would make a great Disney, doesn’t have to rely on Shakespearean language, but a character like Nick Bottom, Titania and her fairies, Puck, there’s such richness to be had. I just hope that eventually they remember that Disney was, while a great businessman, he was an amazing storyteller, and this should be encouraged again, Disney has plenty of scope to take risks rather than shy away from what could add to the Disney magic.
I don’t think its about the stories. It’s about the money these remakes bring to them. Why create new content when we call pull from what we already have. Is pretty much the mindset of the CEO who is a business man.
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Thomas
I understand the whole remake thing, and occasional sequels, obviously the Stars Wars and Marvel stuff needs updates to keep the franchise going. If we think about Disney and Pixar, okay Pixar have done sequels and are generally very popular with them, but Disney in the past have rarely done sequels, I think the only part of the Disney Animated Classic canon to be sequels are The Rescuers Down Under, Ralph Breaks the Internet and the upcoming Frozen 2 – the latter of which I understand, considering how much of a juggernaut it has become, but in the same breath, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King were enormous and groundbreaking in the early 90s, but their sequels were all straight-to-vhs. The remakes I think to begin with were a cute idea, and if they were sporadically done it’d be great, but there is such overkill – if you look at ‘Dumbo’, it wasn’t the hit Disney expected. To then be followed almost directly by Aladdin (which while a hit, and very good, isn’t as good as the original when you really think about it), and then 6 weeks after Aladdin we have the new version of The Lion King. Even ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ while cute and enjoyable for what it was wasn’t really a sequel, but a remake – the storyline and song points were exactly the same as the original. In Disney’s lifetime he never saw a sequel, and was big on finding interesting stories to inject some Disney magic, and there are hundreds of fairy tales and mythologies that Disney Animation could take for original movies – Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney’s biggest mistake this century so far in my opinion is shelving ‘Gigantic’). There are also other avenues that could be tried, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ would make a great Disney, doesn’t have to rely on Shakespearean language, but a character like Nick Bottom, Titania and her fairies, Puck, there’s such richness to be had. I just hope that eventually they remember that Disney was, while a great businessman, he was an amazing storyteller, and this should be encouraged again, Disney has plenty of scope to take risks rather than shy away from what could add to the Disney magic.
Shay
I don’t think its about the stories. It’s about the money these remakes bring to them. Why create new content when we call pull from what we already have. Is pretty much the mindset of the CEO who is a business man.
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