Now that the live action Disney film Oz the Great and Powerful is the first blockbuster hit of 2013 the company is looking forward to other films to bring to the theatrical market. Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney‘s greatest and most beloved animated films … so it should come as no surprise that the company is reportedly interested in adapting the tale for a live action film. While this may sound like good news to some, I must also share the bad news that Disney has reportedly decided to stop making traditional 2D hand-drawn animated films :( That means that masterpiece films like Disney‘s Beauty and the Beast will likely never be made again … at least, not in the foreseeable future.
Hot on the heels of another splashy revisionist fairy tale opening in Oz The Great and Powerful, Disney is in talks with UK-based writer Joe Ahearne to reinvent its Beauty And The Beast franchise. Ahearne most recently scripted Trance, the film that Danny Boyle directed and then completed between his production of the Opening Ceremonies of the last Summer Olympics in London. This will be live action, and most certainly 3D. Disney is calling this film The Beast, and considering the subject matter of Trance – an art auctioneer is pummeled so badly by his criminal cohorts that a hypnotherapist is needed to coax out the memories of where he hid a priceless painting — indicates that this revisionist take on Beauty and the Beast could be a bit on the dark side. The film will be produced by Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman and Disney’s LouAnne Brickhouse will steer the project. Ahearne is repped by Resolution and United Agents in the UK. He’s managed by Thruline and Principal Entertainment.
For me, this new is worrisome. You may recall that Disney decided to make a live-action film based on Alice in Wonderland (a film they previously produced in animated form) and we all remember how horribly that mess turned out. That said, I have high hopes that the upcoming live action Disney film Maleficent will turn out well. I dunno … I trust Disney but what’s so wrong with leaving Beauty and the Beast to rule the realm of animated film? Now that Disney is reportedly doing away with 2D animated films, maybe the focus should be on honoring the past rather than finding new ways to exploit it:
It pains me to hear this but, again, it doesn’t surprise me. That being said, if Disney is willing to leave 2D animation behind, other studios around the world will pick up the art and run with it. I love Disney/Pixar‘s animated films, I do, but they really don’t have the magic of the traditional 2D animated film. I guess it’s a matter of preference … hand-drawn over computer-generated … old vs. new. I guess I can’t see why we can’t have both but … the powers that be seem to know what they want to do. I’ve been a Disney fan for my entire life, I suspect I’ll remain a Disney fan for the rest of my life. It just saddens me to think that really masterpiece films like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King etc. may never be drawn to live again :(
And cue me buying just about every animated Disney movie I can get my hands on when they come out of THAT STUPID VAULT. =( What a bummer.
I’m so sick of these money hungry pigs just doing ANYTHING to get a quick buck – back when they put out Lion King in 3D, they automatically thought that ANY film that they would bring back in 3D was going to make them the same money. How about doing ORIGINAL animated films that boosted the company to incredible heights. I HATED the ‘Alice’ movie that they made – it was WAY too try hard for my taste. It was a mess. It was a disaster. Same thing with Pixar films, they need to slow down with the sequels/prequels. After the success of Toy Story 3, they abandoned the need to put out NEW/ORIGINAL films, and started doing Cars 2(which is forgettable), and now Monsters University. The fact that they replaced Brenda Chapman from being the director of Brave pissed me off as well. I feel like the movie was just OKAY, and not amazing like their previous films. I’m DISAPPOINTED, DISNEY. VERY disappointed. Sorry…but yeah. Booo at this remake. *sips tea*
Can ya at least get that wreck of a headline corrected lol. I’m normally not the grammar Nazi but yikes.
Do NOT fuck up my favoritest movie ever. They’ll probably put Taylor swift in it and I’ll have to spend the next 5 years recovering like I’ve been trying to do since they stuck her in my favorite Seuss story “the Lorax”
Waiiiit I thought about it.. Maybe I’d see it if JGL played Gaston
LIVE action not life action
I am soooooo angry to hear about this. Belle is me. I am BELLE! I need for this idea to go away, and for the traditional one to be loved and cherished and be THE ONLY version from Disney!
Sniff…sniff…
That’ll be one I skip…
Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney movie. I don’t want to see it messed with.