Amph The Disney/Pixar Movies Thread (for anything non-Marvel/SW)

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Jon Favreau set to "reimagine" The Lion King.

https://d23.com/disney-and-jon-favreau-to-reimagine-the-lion-king/?share_token=7170560c0b

Personally, TLK is my all-time favourite animated film.

 

Interesting. Wonder if the animals will be CGI and talk like in Favreau's Jungle Book, or be live-action with voiceovers, like Homeward Bound.

I'd have to say that Lion King is the greatest animated Disney movie made (save for Fantasia), so it'll be interesting to see how the remake stacks up.

 

The Lion King is perhaps my favorite Disney film. This is as sacrilegious as rebooting Back to the Future.

 

That's not Indy. It's Flynn Rider.

 

Only two months late

 

I don't know it was just a guess?

 

I was busy doing research.

 

I agree I really liked The Jungle Book remake! as for Jon Faverau I really liked Iron Man 1 and 2 and Cowboys And Aliens was really fun they mixed my two favorite genres Sci-Fi and A western and Harrison Ford and Craig were great In It really good chemistry! Faverau was also really good in Rudy!

 

yea me to I was doing research In my refrigerator. turns out Bacon and Spinach frittata's taste really good and If you eat two you microwave them for 1:40 minutes...

by the way Is that Miley Cyrus in your Avatar? If so why didn't you put the one with her dad and Miley in your Avatar,

this one If that is not her my bad I am sorry? I just always wondered if it was her in your Avatar Picture?

 

Muh childhood!

 

Disney's quest of remaking all of its animated classics into live action is the death of originality for the studio.

 

You do know that most of Disney's movies are based on already existing stories, right?

 

And that one or two remakes a year is a drop in the ocean compared to Disney's output.

 

If they do that I also hope they reimagine their Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead adaptation

 

that's weird and cool at the same time!

 

Sure, but many of those stories hadn't been adapted into a cinematic medium previously. The money grubbing in this case is painfully blatant.

 

Disney is a for profit company.

They keep making them, because people like them and go and see them. If there were more Pete's Dragons and less Jungle Books, they'd stop.

 

Yeah, their business model is pretty apparent. It's just a shame to me that they would rather plunder through their existing catalogue rather than take risks on new ideas and imaginative concepts. Of course, box office flops like John Carter, Tomorrowland and The BFG have only encouraged them to move in the opposite direction.

 

I don't know, Si. Things like Malificent and The Jungle Book were very far removed from the animated versions. The Lion King had, of course, already been adapted into the best stage show I've ever seen, no reason a Photo-realistic version of the animated film can't be its own thing. Obviously there's a market for it.

 

Personally, I'm dying to see what the geniuses of Disney will do with it.

 

Well, as a life-long fan of Disney animated movies (heck, if you were to define my childhood through movies, it would be Disney animation), I'm honestly overall happy with the live action remake project; it's a chance to see some of of the movies I loved as a kid (and still do) brought to life again, with different perspectives and ways at looking at the core story. In some cases, I think the new version is better than the old one (Maleficent vs. Sleeping Beauty). The Jungle Book has been the best so far (IMHO) and really did balance well the elements from the original movie with "new" material from the book. Honestly, rather than plundering, that movie was a respectful salute to the original.

BFG is still on my to-see list. John Carter was okay. Tomorrowland was underrated and deserved better.

Of course, since the live-action remakes have generally been good movies overall (Cinderella was the weakest and that was more that it really didn't seem to have a purpose in existing rather than it being bad in and of itself), what's the big deal? A good movie is a good movie regardless of whether it's an original piece or a retelling.

The Jungle Book was far removed from the animated version?