scarcely a week go by without Disney announcing a live - legal action version of something . Some of them make a sort of good sense , and the others are complete lunacy . As we have done before , it ’s time to project out just how many of these things are on the path — and how sentence we are .
Yes , I have a go at it Ijust did thisfour months ago . But since I last mentioned those six live - action Disney adjustment in the works — specifically , Beauty and the Beast , The Jungle Book , Gruella , Dumbo , Winnie the Pooh and Mulan — eight more have been announced . You ca n’t even be angry anymore , because it ’s just wearing .
direct By : Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless aresupposedly on table to write .
What Else We Know : Every one of these is announced as being either interchangeable in tone to Maleficent or the bouncy - action Cinderella . As this is a live - action version of a full terrifying short , the “ live - action take will be similar to what Disney did with Maleficent . ”
sentiment : If you do n’t have 12 minutes to re - watch “ Night on Bald Mountain ” from Fantasia , remember that the inadequate is about the gargantuan god of evil — Chernobog by name , Satan by appearance . His exponent causes the strength of dark to rise and trip the light fantastic toe , only for him to toss them into the fervent pits of Hell . It is the reference of many a nightmare .
There are just two ways for this to go , and either one will be wizard .
Option one : The live - action adaptation preserves the horrifying calibre of the wordless , musical version . It ’s two time of day of beautiful and terrific images , a true adaptation of the original .
Option two : It snuff it in full Maleficent and we learn all about the tragic backstory of Chernobog , the king of hell . So we ’re sympathetic to him once he begin chucking live , yell organism into ardent destruction .
give that Sazama and Sharpless save Dracula Untold , I ’m wager we ’re going to get selection two . Which wo n’t be unspoiled , but might be screaming .
Odds : 2:1 that it ’s a uproarious misfire .
Starring : The promise is that Angelina Jolie will reprise the form of address role .
What Else We Know : Linda Woolverton , who write the first one and has a billionDisney piece of writing credit rating , is write the script .
Thoughts : There weregood partsandbad partsto Maleficent , and the sequel will likely be equally mixed . The biggest stumbling block to Maleficent is that there ’s nowhere familiar for this to go . Maleficent was both prequel and reimagining of slumber Beauty , so there ’s no tarradiddle left to re - tell apart . A sequel is also a Sleeping Beauty sequel , and my bet is for a very bland tale where Maleficent and Aurora save the land from some form of intrusion .
betting odds : 3:1 that it nominate us slumber for 100 years .
Starring : Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace , Wes Bentley as Jack , Robert Redford as Grace ’s Father of the Church , Karl Urban as Gavin , Oona Laurence as Natalie , Isiah Whitlock Jr. as Sheriff Dentler , Craig Hall as Adult Pete , and Oakes Fegley as Pete
Directed By : David Lowery
What Else We be intimate : Lowery wrote the screenplay with Toby Halbrooks , which has a release date of August 12 , 2016 . D23 also revealed that the fresh pic is in no way a musical ( say bye-bye to “ Candle on the Water ” ) and ditches the classic dragon for a full-grown , furry interlingual rendition . While the bones of the story — orphaned child , imaginary friend who is a material flying lizard , incur a novel kinsperson — are the same , nothing else has been kept .
Thoughts : I know , technically the original was a live - military action moving picture , too . But what you retrieve of when you envision it is the 2D animated dragon plump into the live - action mechanism film . Get quick to see that replaced with a big ol’ CGI tartar .
Hmmm , the 1977 movie is a perfect gem of a cinema . Since the novel version is lose the songs and the mix of three-D and 2D that made the original so much fun , it ’s really Pete ’s Dragon in Name Only . Pete ’s Dragon is n’t nearly as famous as the other names on this listing . At least with the others , cash in on the famous names by attaching them to plastic film that have nothing in uncouth with the original makes business sense .
Oh , and did we observe the lack of songs and the furry ( ? ! ) dragon ?
Odds : 8:1 that this will be one you never let go .
What Else We make out : Bryan Cogman is compose and Brigham Taylor is bring forth .
Thoughts : Yes ! Just what was overlook from the world : more picture show based on King Arthur . And 1 based on The Once and Future King?COLOR ME SURPRISED . Will it be a derive of eld story of an under - appreciated orphan plucked from obscurity to have a bearded overbold man train him ? WILL IT ?
Full revealing : The Sword in the Stone is my favorite animated Disney movie . And it pretty much only works because it is a cartoon . That ’s what make it fun , rather than just another chosen one narrative . It ’s derisory : a squirrel falls in love with Arthur , Merlin wears a Hawaiian shirt , Achimedes the bird of night hates everyone and everythin … it ’s gleefully fun . Mad Madam Mim and Merlin ’s fight is both shuddery and curious in animated form — there ’s a 100 % chance it ’ll be a 20 - minute - retentive CGI action scene in the new movie . Blargh . Argh . All the fun stuff is get going to be lose in favor of Disney seek to cash in on Hollywood ’s gloomy and spunky , sword and sorcery bang . vote down IT WITH FIRE .
betting odds : KILL IT WITH FIRE
Starring : Reese Witherspoon
What Else We Know : This was primitively in development back in 2012 , with McG directing and Elizabeth Banks starring . That one had a script by Marti Nixon ( Friday Night Lights ) . The intelligence that Witherspoon would star also came with the information that this Tink is totally different flesh that Tink , with a new playscript from Victoria Strouse ( Finding Dory ) .
opinion : From these change alone , it ’s pretty safe to don that we ’re go the “ heartwarming beginning story ” road . With a flock of pin for Peter Pan throw in for good measure . Whether or not this sound full bet heavily on whether Tinkerbell is a character you ’re cash in one’s chips to see more of . Disney ’s turned her into a star , despite the fact that her delimit characteristic in the original is gross jealousy lead to her being captivate and almost killed . Also , in the movie , she never talks .
Well , that ’s emphatically going to change .
Odds : 3:1 that no one claps and she break from deficiency of belief .
What Else We Know : playscript is being penned by Peter Hedges
Thoughts : This one is pretty exhaustively love . Pinocchio ’s last live - action debut was one of the worst brush up films of the decade . And Warner Bros. already has one in yield that stars Robert Downey Jr. and has Paul Thomas Anderson write and possibly directing . There is no way the Disney reading can push on both battlefront .
Odds : 1:1 that it is crushed by Iron Man ’s repulsor blast .
What Else We bang : It ’s the story of how the jinnee in Aladdin ended up in the lamp , publish by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift ( Freddy vs. Jason ) .
thought : Here ’s a project that makes me need to slam my face into a wall . Disney ’s already tried this . And recently . Remember Once Upon a prison term in Wonderland ? No ? WELL THEN .
And , not to be a cock , but the reason the jinni in Aladdin bring so well was because of Robin Williams . He is not uncommitted any longer . The amount of interest in a genie history without him is approximately nil . And , in the absolute worst case scenario , we get a book that hear to ape Williams ’ ad - libbing manner and a sensation doing his best Williams impression . This is literally the only time that whole ignoring the pilot is really the better stake .
Christ , that ’s depressing in a completely different way .
betting odds : 2:1 that we ’ve already had a Quaker like him .
What Else We Know : Buckle in , because Disney ’s Prince Charming is the one that is the worst on paper . Which is say something . Here we go : Matt Fogel has write a handwriting from the linear perspective of Prince Charming ’s non - famous brother who “ never lived up to his kinfolk name . ”
view : Why yes , the thing we were miss from the Disney princess genre was the story from the point of view of a male character . We hear unendingly about the way that Disney place aremerchandised — princess for girlfriend , superheroes for boy . But , of course of study , Black Widow ca n’t bust out of The Avengers for her own moving-picture show but a prince we ’ve never even heard of get his own moving-picture show . The fact that Prince Charming is about a fictional character who ca n’t head for the hills his box is too ironical to breadbasket .
And , and , the cookie - cutter secret plan of this catastrophe . From just the description we have , I bet you could plot every beat of this picture . pitiful 2d - pace Charming , being held up to the inconceivable monetary standard of his older brother . His brother and Cinderella go down in faery tale story , and no one even have sex he exists . Except for his parents , who kick that he ’s a failure , and his pal , who is good but forgetful to his blood brother ’s pain . gutsy comic alleviation abounds . Probably played by Josh Gad .
end is too good for everyone involved with this .
betting odds : ∞:1
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