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Marcel The Shell With Shoes On director Dean Fleischer-Camp tapped to direct the live action remake of Disney's Lilo and Stitch
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"Ohana means 'Disney classic', and no Disney classic gets left behind, or forgotten, by the live-action remake machine!
(Except you, Fantasia. Get to the back of the line.)"
(Except you, Fantasia. Get to the back of the line.)"
Lilo and Stitch was already a lot more raw and real than 95% of Disney's cartoon films so I actually feel like a live action is going to dial it back and make it a saccharine mess. Like unless they handle this really well I feel like animated Lilo is going to feel like more of a little kid than an actual little kid actor.
A L&S retrospective / interview with Chris Sanders (director/screenwriter) and Dean DeBlois (screenwriter) done last September feels of rather poignant note:
(I'd post more quotes, but really, I recommend anyone intrigued by this to read the entire article. It's a great writeup on the film's development.)
Maybe lightning can strike twice and Fleischer-Camp's version of L&S can also subvert the Disney machine, but it remains to be seen if he even stays on this project. Recall that Paul King, director of both of the live-action Paddington movies, was called to direct Disney's Pinocchio remake at one point...before he dropped out due to family reasons (and was later replaced by Robert Zemekis).
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Yeah, it's an excellent example of a kids movie with genuine artistic weight.
Does any of that charm survive the Disney pipeline? God only knows.
Oh I'm well aware of the history of the film since it's one of my favorites. There are so many little elements that make it feel grounded and nuanced which I can see getting bulldozed in a live action remake. Even something like Nani and David's relationship was a really interesting take that I can see the live action version just making into a regular love story.
I want Disney to start doing animated versions of their live-action movies.
The Parent Trap, ANIMATED! That Darn Cat, ANIMATED! Flubber, ANIMATED! Holes, ANIMATED! Pirates of the Caribbean, ANIMATED! TRON. ANIMATED. BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA. ANIMATED.
That one weird-ass movie they released where kids proved their courage by painting lines on their back and laying face-down in the middle of a freeway. ANIMATED.
The Parent Trap, ANIMATED! That Darn Cat, ANIMATED! Flubber, ANIMATED! Holes, ANIMATED! Pirates of the Caribbean, ANIMATED! TRON. ANIMATED. BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA. ANIMATED.
That one weird-ass movie they released where kids proved their courage by painting lines on their back and laying face-down in the middle of a freeway. ANIMATED.
Animated adaptations of Disney's live-action films and theme parks would be interesting. Especially new adaptations of the theme parks that aim for a decidedly different direction than their live-action cousins (PotC being the obvious candidate).
The problem though IMO is who would Disney call to handle such projects in the first place. Their main feature animation departments (WDAS, Pixar) are focused on developing their own original concepts (or their own spins of classic stories), and the rest (WDAS Vancouver, Marvel Animation, Lucasfilm Animation, Fox Animation) are satellite divisions to bigger departments/IPs; with a strict focus for television(/streaming). (BBM aside for Fox Animation; but that was in development before Disney acquired Fox, and I'm sure it'll be their last theatrical film following its box office performance.) And Disney's all but certainly going to have such properties developed in-house / under their supervision, they're not going to pass development duties to any outside parties.
I still maintain that Blue Sky would had been a perfect candidate as an "alternative" feature animation studio, that could had been capitalized for such projects. But Disney management were having absolutely none of that, especially so under Chapek I imagine.
The problem though IMO is who would Disney call to handle such projects in the first place. Their main feature animation departments (WDAS, Pixar) are focused on developing their own original concepts (or their own spins of classic stories), and the rest (WDAS Vancouver, Marvel Animation, Lucasfilm Animation, Fox Animation) are satellite divisions to bigger departments/IPs; with a strict focus for television(/streaming). (BBM aside for Fox Animation; but that was in development before Disney acquired Fox, and I'm sure it'll be their last theatrical film following its box office performance.) And Disney's all but certainly going to have such properties developed in-house / under their supervision, they're not going to pass development duties to any outside parties.
I still maintain that Blue Sky would had been a perfect candidate as an "alternative" feature animation studio, that could had been capitalized for such projects. But Disney management were having absolutely none of that, especially so under Chapek I imagine.
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I'm a fan of Marcel. Interested to see how this works out. It's going to make money, but I also hope it's good. Blending animation and live action would really work if done right.
I feel like, even if it's good, such a big part of the film is the art design that they literally could not replicate in live action unless they went super creative with it.
It's possible to remake these things and have them actually be good, but other than the Lion King musical and Cinderella I'm not sure any have justified their existence to me outside of a quest for cash. The best way to adapt it would be to lean into the human drama far more, which tends not to be the direction they take.
It's possible to remake these things and have them actually be good, but other than the Lion King musical and Cinderella I'm not sure any have justified their existence to me outside of a quest for cash. The best way to adapt it would be to lean into the human drama far more, which tends not to be the direction they take.
Are they gonna make stitch look horrifically realistic?
I just want to see how terrifyingly detailed they'll make his model.
Would be great if they added this back in.
I just want to see how terrifyingly detailed they'll make his model.
Would be great if they added this back in.
Did you miss Aladdin?
The story twists were well modernized. Jasmine was a much more compelling character. For me the template of the live action remakes
Disney Exec - "Hey, people love this stupid baby Yoda thing. What do we have in our back catalog that we can crank out and make more cute plushies of?"
Lol yeah Jasmine was made so much better by singing "I WONT BE SIIIIILEEEEENCED" and then immediately being silenced.
Of all the things in the original, Jasmine was not in need of "fixing". The remake fucking sucked and had the charisma of a can of tuna.
I don't see how they will be able to do some of it in live action, namely disguising stitch as a dog and the aliens as people, but I'm down for it especially with that director
Hunchback seems perfect for the live action treatment so of course they're going to avoid it like the plague T_T
The Dumbo remake did. I'd argue to its detriment, but it certainly wasn't a simple copy-paste. Disney's kind of condemned whether they hew to the original films or not. They only bother because most of these redos make money. I thought the 2016 Jungle Book was fine and mostly threaded the line between faithful and divergent.
They only made them animated because they didnt have the technology to do them in real life yet. This way people have to use less of their imagination to understand what they are looking at.
I'm happy Disney is saving us from having to overwork our brains and burn them out. Imagination is a waste of a mind, we live in the REAL WORLD and animation is for CHILDREN which I am absolutely NOT.
To be fair I'm pretty sure the entire gag is that Stitch looks nothing like a dog and Jamba & Pleakly's disguises are completely worthless but nobody notices (well Nani does but that just adds to it since she's the only one)
I thought Jungle Book was fine, but also felt the best parts were the songs from the original film. I guess its most important contribution is the path it made for Mandalorian.
Disagree. She went from sex symbol to sultan. Much more appropriate.
Just disagree 🤷♀️
Loved the visually, music, charm of the movie
I notice most of the division regarding the "normal" remakes comes from the ones based on Renaissance-onward films. Seeing reactions to Disney's attempts to be hip and culturally sensitive circa 1992 versus attempts to be hip and culturally sensitive circa now is interesting if nothing else. I anticipate and dread the Little Mermaid remake in equal measures.
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I've never heard of Marcel The Shell With Shoes until now but now I'm intrigued. Couldn't care less about the Lilo and Stich live action movie though