Your thinking About this way harder Than they did. They just saw Money"Without a drop of nobility in his blood"
What happened to his dad and the kings of the past? Is he adopted?
Your thinking About this way harder Than they did. They just saw Money"Without a drop of nobility in his blood"
What happened to his dad and the kings of the past? Is he adopted?
My thoughts exactlyIs Lin Manuel Miranda literally the only guy who can write songs for these types of movies? There has to be someone else.
The success of Mario and Spider-Verse has to send a message, I hope. Animation is (relatively) cheap, and in this modern era with budgets ballooning out of control, everyone stands to benefit. Maybe instead of greenlighting the next stupidly expensive Indiana Jones, an X-Men 97 movie can get a spot on the release calendar. Honestly kinda amazing that Disney hasn't tried "animated Marvel" at the theatres yet.
That seems to be the go-to strategy for CG movies, especially middle-of-the-role ones.Barry Jenkins, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Laxton, Nicholas Britell, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer, Mads Mikkelsen, Seth Rogen, Thandiwe Newton, Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Billy Eichner...
Rarely have so many talented people gathered on a project so fundamentally uninteresting. Basically everyone involved except the writer (Jeff Nathanson of PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Speed 2 fame) is great.
Will laugh if it turns out that Scar is the real royalty and Mufasa usurps the throne.
Yeah I'm wondering how they makes sense of this, but odds are they won't explain it at all."Without a drop of nobility in his blood"
What happened to his dad and the kings of the past? Is he adopted?
Taka is Scar's actual name so that seems to be what happenedWill laugh if it turns out that Scar is the real royalty and Mufasa usurps the throne.
The success of Mario and Spider-Verse has to send a message, I hope. Animation is (relatively) cheap, and in this modern era with budgets ballooning out of control, everyone stands to benefit. Maybe instead of greenlighting the next stupidly expensive Indiana Jones, an X-Men 97 movie can get a spot on the release calendar. Honestly kinda amazing that Disney hasn't tried "animated Marvel" at the theatres yet.
Part of the reason for that IMO is what internal animation studio/animation department would be available and willing for Disney to get such a film produced?
WDAS does at least have one animated Marvel adaptation to their record (Big Hero 6), but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the folklore and literature they've usually busied themselves with (or the original stories they've produced internally).
WDAS' Vancouver spinoff studio has the mission statement of making supplementary work for the main studio, which --whether as films or series-- are being made for streaming instead of the theater. While their Moana series has been reformulated into a theatrical movie sequel, I think that is being done as an emergency directive by Iger and company (box office flops of 2023, post-COVID underperformance of original works, WGA/SAG strikes leaving Disney's 2024 schedule barren) and shouldn't be taken as a signal of a change in direction.
Pixar has always focused on developing original stories (and followups based on those stories), instead of adaptations of outside works.
Blue Sky....well, we know what happened there.
DisneyToon Studios...same story as above.
Disney Television Animation / Marvel Animation are strictly regulated to television work. Moreover, the former has essentially been disbarred from theatrical releases since the underperformance of 2004's Teacher's Pet film adaptation); and Marvel Studios actually opted to produce the What If...? Disney+ series (which is animated) in-house themselves, instead of getting Marvel Animation to handle it.
20th Century Animation...same as above. The Bob's Burgers Movie I'm all too sure would had been a straight-to-Hulu/Disney+ release if Disney wasn't contractually obligated to release in theaters from the Fox buyout, and you could tell Disney had no meaningful desire to support it as a theatrical release anyway.
With all that established, I actually think animated Marvel features is an area where Disney could had leveraged their current relationship with Sony (regarding Spider-Man film rights) to their advantage in this regard, in light of SPA's Spider-Verse films. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some creatives within SPA who have some great ideas for, say, an animated Hulk or Iron Man movie or whatever; and would jump at the chance to produce it if Disney/Sony's partnership ever provided such an opportunity.
Nah, that one was watchable and personal best. Lion King was just so damn boring.
Can't help but watch this and think "wouldn't it be so much better if it was traditional animation".
Well what are they doing for X-Men 97? It's internal and external right? From what I can see it's Marvel Studios Animation with assistance from Studio Mir and Tiger Animation. What's stopping them from doing a movie in collaboration with those studios?
No.
Taka is Scar.Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline.
Wow I've never seen this poster, love itIf Paramount hasn't got a trailer for Sonic 3 good to go alongside IF, either Sega's making them hold off until Sonic's Anniversary in June, or the films getting pushed into 2025.
Y'all forgot about Big Hero 6 already?
Grossed just a bit under what Across the Spiderverse did in 10 years ago money.
Actually I thought there was no way this movie could do anything for me, but thinking about it there is one way this movie could interest me, and that's by making Mufasa a Machiavellian jackassHow will Mufasa SCREW Taka out of his royal title?
Buy a ticket for Mufasa, The Lion King, to find out
Where is scar in all this? Is he the prince? If so wth happened in between
Well this looks more interesting than the first lion king live action at least but honestly that's not really a high bar.
I like to think John Oliver talked too much shit about Disney and didn't get invited back lol
Barry himself responding these lame ass comments about him or the film got me even more pumped for this
View: https://x.com/BarryJenkins/status/1784960376502911136
Is Lin Manuel Miranda literally the only guy who can write songs for these types of movies? There has to be someone else.
Hell, Miranda isn't even as prolific for them as he's being propped up to be. He did Moana, Encanto, Mary Poppins Returns, and like 2 songs for Little Mermaid. That's it. Hasn't even done as much as the Lopezes.How is it that different than when Alan Menken did The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted and Tangled? For a time, Alan Menken was their go to person to handle music.
Barry himself responding these lame ass comments about him or the film got me even more pumped for this
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