Feature Mark Harrison 5 Mar 2014 - 06:39
For every animated movie that gets made, there are dozens more that never make it. Mark looks at some failed Disney projects...
In the age of the internet, Hollywood studios are much quicker to announce the projects they have in development than they used to be. Now that the demand is there, there's a huge turnover of movie-related news every day, and if you follow it in any significant way, there are probably a whole bunch of projects that you've heard about, maybe even gotten excited about, that never came to fruition.
Still, it's not only via the easier availability of such information that we know about projects that never came to be. At a studio like Disney, projects will get as far as being fully developed in animatic form before falling apart, and the artefacts left behind from such abridged projects have made for some fascinating reading.
For every animated movie that gets made, there are dozens more that never make it. Mark looks at some failed Disney projects...
In the age of the internet, Hollywood studios are much quicker to announce the projects they have in development than they used to be. Now that the demand is there, there's a huge turnover of movie-related news every day, and if you follow it in any significant way, there are probably a whole bunch of projects that you've heard about, maybe even gotten excited about, that never came to fruition.
Still, it's not only via the easier availability of such information that we know about projects that never came to be. At a studio like Disney, projects will get as far as being fully developed in animatic form before falling apart, and the artefacts left behind from such abridged projects have made for some fascinating reading.
- 3/3/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Disney has kept flirting with the return to hand-drawn animation for some time now. They’ll occasionally go all the way with their attempt to go back, making The Princess and the Frog, though other shots — next year’s Frozen, for instance — get their plans scrambled and come out in the industry standard CG form.
Another experiment is just around the corner, however, with BleedingCool having noted that, at one point, The Disney Animation Research Library’s Facebook page posted a hint pertaining to legendary animation duo John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin). What might that be? Well, it turns out they’re “currently working to develop the next hand-drawn feature at Disney Animation.” We, the general public, just can’t know what it is.
The site claims Musker and Clements were once working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett‘s massive Discworld series of books, but...
Another experiment is just around the corner, however, with BleedingCool having noted that, at one point, The Disney Animation Research Library’s Facebook page posted a hint pertaining to legendary animation duo John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin). What might that be? Well, it turns out they’re “currently working to develop the next hand-drawn feature at Disney Animation.” We, the general public, just can’t know what it is.
The site claims Musker and Clements were once working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett‘s massive Discworld series of books, but...
- 4/26/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
In the new buzzworthy film "Drive," Ryan Gosling plays a fearless stunt driver who completes dangerous movie stunts in the blink of the eye. It's hard to believe that the actor portraying this tough-as-nails character was once a teenage Fraidy Cat in a Frankenstein movie.
That's right -- long before Gosling was making audiences swoon in the "Notebook," cry in "Blue Valentine" and laugh in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," the actor was making them cringe in the long-forgotten 1997 film "Frankenstein and Me."
Why have you never heard of "Frankenstein and Me" -- a thriller about a 12-year-old boy (Jamieson Boulanger) who is obsessed with the idea of reviving Frankenstein from the dead? Probably because it is a subpar Canadian film whose only "star" at the time was Burt Reynolds. Still! Ryan Gosling was in it and every Gosling title, especially the obscure '90s titles, are worth excavating.
In the early '90s,...
That's right -- long before Gosling was making audiences swoon in the "Notebook," cry in "Blue Valentine" and laugh in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," the actor was making them cringe in the long-forgotten 1997 film "Frankenstein and Me."
Why have you never heard of "Frankenstein and Me" -- a thriller about a 12-year-old boy (Jamieson Boulanger) who is obsessed with the idea of reviving Frankenstein from the dead? Probably because it is a subpar Canadian film whose only "star" at the time was Burt Reynolds. Still! Ryan Gosling was in it and every Gosling title, especially the obscure '90s titles, are worth excavating.
In the early '90s,...
- 9/18/2011
- by Julie Miller
- NextMovie
When I was a kid, if you had given me the choice of watching an episode of Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second. Looney Tunes would have won hands down. Not because the animation was better, as both cartoons had clear animation gradations depending on when they were drawn. Instead it was about content (I was a really picky little kid), every single Tom & Jerry episode was the same. If any variation existed it was whether or not the dog Spike made an appearance, in which case Tom was abused even further. With the Deluxe Anniversary collection, you see this unwavering formula play out about 25-some times until you reach the most modern episodes when Tom & Jerry are reverted to children and then start including dialogue for the two leads. Repetitive? You bet. Worth watching? Possibly.
At its core, the concept driving Tom & Jerry is very logical,...
At its core, the concept driving Tom & Jerry is very logical,...
- 7/4/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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