D82 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:15 pm
This is clearly a new case of a former chief creative officer at Disney bringing their old projects with them to a new studio, like Katzenberg, for example, did with Antz.
Well, Katzenberg also did the same with The Road to El Dorado and Sinbad, who both originally started at Disney.
I don't know how I feel about this. I would've preferred Disney had made it, but at the same time I'm excited there'll be a new animated adaptation of the fairy tale and Rich Moore is not a bad director. Also, if it's a musical, perhaps Alan Menken will do the music since he's working for Skydance now on Spellbound.
Agreed. Despite how I think both Wreck-It-Ralph films were the truly great ones from Moore. But I`m sure that his take on the material willl be edgier than Disney`s.
DisneyFan09 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:51 pmWell, Katzenberg also did the same with The Road to El Dorado and Sinbad, who both originally started at Disney.
Where did you read that about The Road to El Dorado?
That paragraph on the wiki entry doesn't have a source for El Dorado; just for Sindbad. I searched online, but was unable to find a source claiming El Dorado was in development at any point at Disney.
Sotiris wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:58 pm
That paragraph on the wiki entry doesn't have a source for El Dorado; just for Sindbad. I searched online, but was unable to find a source claiming El Dorado was in development at any point at Disney.
D82 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:15 pm
This is clearly a new case of a former chief creative officer at Disney bringing their old projects with them to a new studio, like Katzenberg, for example, did with Antz. I don't know how I feel about this. I would've preferred Disney had made it, but at the same time I'm excited there'll be a new animated adaptation of the fairy tale and Rich Moore is not a bad director. Also, if it's a musical, perhaps Alan Menken will do the music since he's working for Skydance now on Spellbound.
Interestingly...I've noticed a couple of Skydance Animation employees on LinkedIn mention on their profiles an unannounced feature film called Cosmic Motors. Could this be a resurrected version of Dean Wellins' Cosmic 3000 film that was being developed at Disney?
Justforkix wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:04 pm
Interestingly...I've noticed a couple of Skydance Animation employees on LinkedIn mention on their profiles an unannounced feature film called Cosmic Motors. Could this be a resurrected version of Dean Wellins' Cosmic 3000 film that was being developed at Disney?
Interesting. Perhaps Lasseter is doing this with more than one project. After all, Spellbound's story also sounds a bit like Raya and the Last Dragon's, as we discussed in that movie's thread.
Steve Hulett wrote:I finally settled on a couple of Bill Peet books and the Rudyard Kipling story “The Man Who Would Be King,” and worked each up into short paragraphs...The Eisner-Katzenberg pitch meeting...Jeffrey was cool to a director’s idea about “Hansel and Gretel” from a Valley Girl perspective. He didn’t like my Bill Peet pitches, but thought that “The Man Who Would be King” had possibilities, and asked to see a treatment.
That interesting. Do we know for sure that The Man Who Would Be King served as an inspiration The Road to El Dorado? The similarities could have been unintentional like in the case of Hamlet/The Lion King. I've found that another book was used as the inspiration for the film.
Terry Rossio wrote:Before Dreamworks was announced, Jeffrey Katzenberg approached us with a big thick book in hand: Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas. He wanted to do an animated film set in that world.
I pulled out my copy of the book, coincidentally, The Men Who Would Be King, about DreamWorks, and it doesn't mention TMWWBK as the inspiration for the film (nor the Thomas book Rossio mentioned). And I'm not finding anything on Google out of Katzenberg's mouth. But I read years ago that it served as inspiration. But a quick Google search does bring up lots of reviews that mention TMWWBK as inspiration:
Did anyone else watch the 2023 Disney parks magical Holiday celebration? They showed a Disney parks commercial with some vines growing out of a house.... correct me if I’m wrong, or unless it is indeed based on fun and fancy free Mickey and the beanstalk, is this possibly a hint towards gigantic somehow, because what else is that from?………
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