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Post by anthony40 on Sept 28, 2016 18:36:25 GMT
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Post by Ade on Sept 28, 2016 18:41:01 GMT
Seems Disney needs to find some original ideas again. Don't mind them dabbling in some remakes but feels a bit like it's at the expense of anything new at the minute. |
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 28, 2016 18:48:09 GMT
Isn't a live-action Lion King just Hamlet?
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Post by danb on Sept 28, 2016 18:56:35 GMT
Isn't a live-action Lion King just Hamlet? ...with animals! |
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Post by Jon on Sept 28, 2016 20:11:10 GMT
As Forbidden Broadway puts it, its Hamlet Gone Safari!
The Lion King's trickier to pull off because there is no humans in it and the original pretty cinematic whereas you could expand upon Cinderella or The Jungle Book
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2016 21:14:41 GMT
They say "live-action", but if it's going to be like this year's The Jungle Book where Mowgli is the only human among CGI animals and jungle scenery, then surely The Lion King would just be CGI as there are no humans?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2016 22:32:32 GMT
Pur-lease!
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Post by viserys on Sept 29, 2016 5:10:41 GMT
While I can to some extent understand the idea of recreating really old Disney animations like Jungle Book for a new generation with new CGI possibilities, I think that the string of 90's movies (Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc) are too new to be recycled again. And Lion King makes least sense of all since there isn't a single human in it, so you can only replace cartoon lions with CGI lions.
It seems all the creative new stuff is coming from Pixar these days with wonderful little movies like Inside Out.
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Post by The Matthew on Sept 29, 2016 7:12:46 GMT
It seems all the creative new stuff is coming from Pixar these days with wonderful little movies like Inside Out. Shame they followed it up with The Good Dinosaur. Disney's main animation studio is still doing great work, and part of that work is providing a catalogue that can be raided by the live-action-with-CGI section of Disney. In a way that might be a good thing. In recent years Disney has become better at showing strong and independent characters — especially women — and remaking some of the older films gives them an opportunity to go into greater depth with the characterisation than they have in the past. |
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Post by Jon on Sept 29, 2016 17:14:17 GMT
It seems all the creative new stuff is coming from Pixar these days with wonderful little movies like Inside Out. Shame they followed it up with The Good Dinosaur. Disney's main animation studio is still doing great work, and part of that work is providing a catalogue that can be raided by the live-action-with-CGI section of Disney. In a way that might be a good thing. In recent years Disney has become better at showing strong and independent characters — especially women — and remaking some of the older films gives them an opportunity to go into greater depth with the characterisation than they have in the past. I get it with The Jungle Book and Cinderella since the stories can be expanded and BATB lends itself to live action but The Lion King's biggest hurdle is that it's just going to be a realistic CG movie, what they can expand upon which they couldn't do in the original film? |
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