Disney isn’t finished pumping out remakes of its traditional animated options simply but, and the following title within the pipeline seems to be 1942’s Bambi.
Citing a number of nameless sources, Deadline broke the information concerning Disney’s plans for the remake and mentioned that Girls Speaking screenwriter and director Sarah Polley is in discussions to direct the function. Polley doesn’t have any animation or cg-heavy movies on her directorial resume, however she is a particularly completed filmmaker and actress who gained an Oscar for adapting the screenplay to Girls Speaking.
Expectedly, many sources, Deadline included, are referring to the movie as a live-action remake, however we’re skeptical that Disney can be casting any woodland creatures for the brand new Bambi. We count on one thing extra akin to 2019’s photorealistic cg-animated remake The Lion King, which solely included one actual live-action shot.
Or, possibly Twitter consumer Tom Zohar had some privileged info when he posted his now-viral tweet yesterday.
Unique behind-the-scenes take a look at the scene the place Bambi’s mom will get shot https://t.co/Nu8iIfky11 pic.twitter.com/n1BmADvWDn
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) June 13, 2023
In any case, the venture’s present screenplay was written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Clear) and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Area will produce. The movie is being developed as a musical and can function music from Grammy-winning nation singer Kacey Musgraves.
Disney revisiting Bambi at all times felt inevitable after the success of remakes like The Lion King – the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, Magnificence and the Beast, The Jungle E-book, and Aladdin. Then, in 2020, information broke that the corporate was certainly engaged on a Bambi remake and an up to date live-action/animation hybrid model of Pinocchio.
On the time, we prompt that each movies offered challenges for Disney in that they lacked components that helped propel latest remakes to such success. Within the case of Bambi, the movie is mild on plot, has no villains, its most dramatic incident occurs offscreen, and the narrative is actually a sequence of vignettes that unfold at a measured tempo.
Maybe the much less mentioned about final 12 months’s Pinocchio remake, the higher.
