YAY! After rumours a couple of months back - John Lasseter has confirmed a new Winnie the Pooh movie is in production for 2011! I don't really want to use this as a place to recycle film news from other places...but this is a fantastic announcement. This will be Disney's second film (after The Princess and the Frog due out early next year) in its "new wave" of hand-drawn animated features, which were initially brought to a halt in 2004. It's great to see traditional animation finally making a return to the studio, and I'm cautiously hopeful that The Princess and the Frog will kick off a new generation of great Disney films, going on to include their 2010 release Rapunzel (a CG adaptation), and then this.
Interesting tidbits from the IGN article:
- It will be based on five stories from the book by A.A. Milne (in a similar fashion to Disney's original The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh being based on a few of Milne's tales).
- The artistic style used in The Many Adventures... will be retained.
- One segment will include Eeyore losing his tail, with the rest of the cast trying to find a replacement.
- Rabbit's "friends and relations," not featured in The Many Adventures... will make an appearance - they're not "as socially aware as the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood."
It sounds like good stuff, and hopefully will be - nothing Winnie the Pooh-related that Disney's produced has been as good as their original film. I trust Lasseter - this just might be.
Click here for the original article over at IGN.
No comments:
Post a Comment