What's a film where it being in development hell or simply cancelled hurt most?

What's a film where it being in development hell or simply cancelled hurt most?

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That sounds like an interesting enough take on jack and the bean stalk, but considering current era disney it probably wouldn't have gone anywhere memorable.

More memorable than a remake of Lady and the Tramp.

You're going to have to come to terms with the fact that every classic Disney movie is going to get a shitty live action remake. It's just how it is now.

Will Lion King be bigger than Black Panther?

>Beyonce as Nala

Duke Nukem Forever
Battlefront 3

It's so fucking short sighted. Have they learnt nothing from Eisner almost ruining the company?

Every time they milk an existing cash cow, all their properties go down a bit in value until everyone stops caring about them.

It'll come back after a complete re-vamp of the story.

>Every time they milk an existing cash cow, all their properties go down a bit in value until everyone stops caring about them.

I think that their new plan is to own everyone so that people are forced to watch at least one of their films if they go to the cinema on any given day.

Though, if you think about it, live action remakes are a extremely safe and logical money maker if you're a talentless empty suit.
>Doesn't get measured up to the classic, since its not an animation.
>Narrative is already a proven winner and has a built in nostalgia audience who will bring their kids.

The jobs of bean counter suits rely on constant profitability and the best ways to ensure that are 'cinematic universes' (which are hard) and gimmick rehashes, which are easy.

In theory I'd like to see a live action Akira film, but obviously in practice it would be a piece of shit like GitS and battle angel.

>Narrative is already a proven winner and has a built in nostalgia audience who will bring their kids.

^This

I cant tell you how many people I've heard say
>"I bet I'll hate it but I'll probably go see it anyway."

In regards to some disney-owned franchise (including star wars and capeshit)

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>Tartakovsky's Popeye
Mostly hurts because it got cancelled to pull funds for Emoji Movie.

Not convinced. As far as I'm aware, Disney animation films get stuck in development hell a lot I've not heard of one coming back after a cancellation announcement.

It's weird because at D23 it sounded like it was really far along. There was even strong rumours that there was going to be a Spainish pavillion at Epcot featuring a Gigantic ride.

Gilliam's Don Quixote.

That's actually happening. Filming has finished.

It's been EIGHT (8) years since Legacy

He'll be her footslave in the new script.

Tron: Ascendancy

Olivia Wilde is ancient now.

There is precedent for their films finding new footing after a revamp with frozen and zootopia, but in the case of zootopia that was after the film was in full production a year from release (that's why the script is so weak and the overall film so paint-by-numbers)

Why would they shoehorn Jack and the Beanstalk into Spanish culture when manolos already have stories of their own (Quixote, El Cid, etc)?

Both Frozen and Zooptia went to massive re-writes; despite being far along. Frozen was pretty bad with this because so many of the promos were mismatched.
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Was that the title?

I like it.

>That sounds like an interesting enough take on jack and the bean stalk
I don't know why they can't just make a good "Jack the Giant Killer" movie. I know there was the Singer movie, but it just kind of threw the old story out the window for some dumb bullshit. And the stories were episodic, so you could totally milk a franchise out of it. The "Giant Killer" is a pretty universal archetype, and every culture has a version of the story - so you can re-purpose those stories as well. Have jack go and help some viking village fight off frost giants, or winds up in the east fighting the descendants of Pengu for those delicious Chinabux.

To be honest I'd like to see them actually put effort into European country cultures.

Films not in Europe get the whole CONSIDER THE COCONUT and WE REMEMBER OUR ANCESTORS and stuff talking about culture.

Films in Europe get "oh yeah, I guess this country is kinda Norway-ish, whatever".

Even Hercules didn't really put any effort into exploring Ancient Greek Culture, it kinda just assumed you knew about greek gods etc. and didn't spend any time about what it meant to live in that time. Compare Hercules to the Odyssey Mini-series which did put the effort into exploring ancient Greek culture and it was better for it.

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>I don't know why they can't just make a good "Jack the Giant Killer" movie.

The original story is pretty boring and doesn't fit with any of the themes that studios want to put into children's films these days. Hell, they'd have to invent characters just to fill the female love interest role.

Neither of those films were ever actually announced as cancelled though.

Also, Tangled got huge amounts of rewrites.

Originally it was a reverse-enchanted with Jack Black transported into Rapunzel's world. Then it was a post-modern version that looked like a watercolour painting.

Even when it was set in stone as Tangled, the early teasers had Rapunzel able to actually control her hair (there's one where she fights the thief character with it).

Tangled was good but that version wouldn't have been that bad if they stuck to the painting ideal.
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>actually put effort into European country cultures.

>directed by BASED del Toro
>produced by BASED James Cameron
>starring BASED Tom Cruise


This really is the worst timeline.

That kiss underneath a fountain is a pretty neat visual, shame they couldn't use it in the final film.

My understanding is that they scrapped Rapunzel Unbraided when Chicken Little flopped, figuring that everyone was tired of 'knowing' animated films and they figured it was best to go back to traditional fairy tales.

It is fucking depressing that the best Lovecraft adaptation to this date is still a zombie comedy.

Mountains of madness would suck as a film, given that the finale is just the protag seeing something off screen and going mad, which would feel like a cop-out in non-literary form.

That and Glen Keane was the one pushing for the movie to be re-vamp.

They'd probably merge it in with a couple of other shorts.

Seems weird they'd say they couldn't figure out the story when they seemed to have a pretty good idea of the story already and even had a song written.

>jack is explorer looking to find uncharted new lands
>meets giant girl
>giant girl takes him in as a pet/playmate
>giant girl is chief's daughter
>war between giants and frost giants

Seems like it'd be pretty easy to get a decent story in that framework.

If it was ever released your expectations would have made you hate the film even if it was good. Because you post here, and youll never be happy.

>Mountains of madness would suck as a film
Maybe, but ever since I read it in highschool I've wanted to see the reveal of the mountains on a big screen, and the expedition into the cyclopean city.
You can also make the "Cosmic-Horror off screen" ending work, that was the ending of cabin in the woods (granted it had a different tone), but if you build up the tension and structured it right, it could work.
I'm not one to get to hung up about muh adaptations being literal. I think the really important thing is that the people in charge of the creative decisions of the movie are genuinely interested in what they're making. Even if Del Taco's movies aren't always great, they're always re-watchable because he always seems to genuinely gets into what he's making and there's genuine care and craft.
You don't need to give a shit about hellboy or comics to watch Golden Army and enjoy all the costumes, monsters, effects, sets, world building, and characters.
The two ends of the spectrum I always refer to is Starship Troopers, and a Scanner Darkly. Two movies I love based on two books I also love. One literally wiped it's ass with the book and did it's own thing using the setting, characters, and mild plot elements, the other is an almost line-for-line adaptation. Both work really well because the people making them gave a shit about what they were doing.

Ant-Man under Edgar Wright would've been absolute kino.
But then they kicked him out because he wanted to make his own film and didn't bow down to Marvel execs who wanted to force MCU cameos and references into a perfectly good project.

>being upset that a disney movie didnt get made

Mel Gibson's Berserker

i thought they canned it after jack the giant slayer bombed