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Live-Action "Hunchback" movie in the works at Disney
- Thread starter Aaron
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Fuck it, live action everything. Live Action Fantasia, Live Action Meet the Robinsons, Live Action Princess & the Frog, Live Action Oliver & Company, Live Action The Rescuers, Live Action Steamboat Willie, Live Action Fun & Fancy Free, Fuck Me Up With That Live Action Garbage.
Audiences didn't know how good they had it prior to this wave of trash. I'm gonna miss when Disney would take risks on films like Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia, Tomorrowland, John Carter, and Tron Legacy. These days it's just Live Action Remakes, Star Wars, and Marvel as far as the eye can see.
I loved Tomorrowland despite its flaws. I never got around to seeing John Connor. Hell, I even enjoy Lone Ranger, though I wouldn't really call it good. We need a new Tron.
I mean, I'm all for risks, but most of those movies were liquid shit. They still take these types of risks too (ie, Wrinkle in Time, Nutcracker, etc.)... and they're also pretty bad.
I don't think the live action remakes are actually taking away from them trying those "risky" films. Even if it does for a bit, at this rate they'll have run through all the 90s musicals in a few years.
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Really the problem with most of their other live-action remakes is the originals were perfectly fine, and the remakes (Beauty and the Beast as the most prominent example) were actively worse.
Hunchback is absolutely a film they deserve another crack at. The original movie was too ambitious for the 90s Disney formula it was stuffed into.
Yes! Its an already excellent film, for what it was adapting considering its Disney and all, and unlike the others it could have more positive changes than negative. As long as you keep Bells as the main leimotif and Hellfire is not stripped, you cannchange whatever the hell you want to Disney. As for Frolo, besides Dance I feel Capaldi could pull it off easily.
And I hope it's good but changes made to characters based on the trailers and articles has me scratching my head
You done with the random personal attacks? I know your entire history is shitting on things and being a dick but this is childish.
I know this is going to sound dumb but i think Peter Capaldi could totally nail Frollo
I mean, he looks the part almost exactly. The question would be is how his baritone is - I've actually DONE Hellfire before and you need a pretty low voice to do it right. I kind of get the feeling he's a low tenor?
Yeah probably. I know pepole really want Charles Dance but i can see Capaldi nailing it. He really does look the part but i doubt they will cast a British Actor
Also pepole should mention this
"While no casting news has been officially announced, it is rumoured that co-producer Josh Gad will play the titular hunchback. "
For Frollo? They probably will cast a British actor. I can't see them hiring an American for that part and they cast, like, 0 French people for Beauty and the Beast and it takes place in the French countryside.
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And the times they try to make an original live action movie it still ends up bombing, like Tomorrowland.
I hope it also fixes a bunch of shitty nitpicky plotholes that nobody actually cared about except assholes, like the Beauty and the Beast one.
The one good part of this shitty film. BUT GODDAMN is it a good part.
The one good part of this shitty film. BUT GODDAMN is it a good part.
I thought the original movie was quite good and I actually like it when movies have large tonal shifts like the gargoyles.
I'm actually on board for this. I love the original film but hate elements of it.
Some improvements I could already see for a better adaptation:
- Getting some Romani representation on the big screen.
- Cutting down on the gargoyles or at least toning down the lame jokes. I love the idea of the gargoyles (Quasimodo coming up with them in his mind after decades of isolation) but the execution was too juvenile for my liking.
- Expanding the relationship between Esmeralda and Phoebus. I didn't get enough of a connection in the original movie between the two before. The lack of shared screen time definitely had a hand in that. There was even a cut song for them on the way back to Note Dame in the film that I think might help if put back in.
And lastly, I hope they keep Alan Menken's fantastic score. Hands down my favorite of his works with Disney and gorgeous in its own right.
Some improvements I could already see for a better adaptation:
- Getting some Romani representation on the big screen.
- Cutting down on the gargoyles or at least toning down the lame jokes. I love the idea of the gargoyles (Quasimodo coming up with them in his mind after decades of isolation) but the execution was too juvenile for my liking.
- Expanding the relationship between Esmeralda and Phoebus. I didn't get enough of a connection in the original movie between the two before. The lack of shared screen time definitely had a hand in that. There was even a cut song for them on the way back to Note Dame in the film that I think might help if put back in.
And lastly, I hope they keep Alan Menken's fantastic score. Hands down my favorite of his works with Disney and gorgeous in its own right.
It's weird, I had no desire to see this as a kid. Interested in what a live action version would even look like.
Quite literally the only live action remake I've ever asked for from Disney mainly because of the soundtrack
Dreams do come true
This can go.
Dreams do come true
But not this though.
This can go.
This ought to be fun. Just don't have those damn gargoyles, or least take them down a notch. The statues in the stage production were much better.