What Happens When Disney Runs Out of Remakes
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The Little Mermaid came out recently and was...another remake to add to the pile. In this video, I go over what happens when Disney runs out of Lion Kings.
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What Happens When Disney Runs Out of Remakes?
simple, they will make remakes of the direct DVD sequels,
personally (this just my opinion) but i dont mind see a remake of little mermaid 2
Saw it Friday. An incredibly Spider-Man movie, and addition to this franchise. Miles is slowly becoming one of my favourite hero’s, and the story unfolding there is truly exciting. Then of course, the animation was next to none. Stylistic, Imaginative, and so so captivating.
It was so good it kind of put me off replaying the game. The game is great but the story is ATSV is just so top tier.
The fact that they’re doing Moana less than a decade after its release means the problem is worse than I thought it was.
this is the only thing that keeps running through my head. I thought it was like a fanmade trailer or something.. shameless with it
The Rock is pushing it because of the failure of black adam
They're approaching the singularity of remakes. Like the old Saturday night live sketch where 'remember the [decade]' caught up to the present time and collapsed in on itself.
That one could be on the Rock though, after flopping the DCU his ego needs a win.
It also made me lose any sense of respect I try to have for The Rock.
He literally gave a lecture at the Oscars on why animation deserves to be respected, especially how the three actresses, playing live-action Disney Princesses, had the nerve to say that it was "for kids". So to see him a few weeks later after the Oscars announce that he's starting as Maui again in a live-action remake of Moana, really pissed me off.
Disney doesnt disappoint when it comes to disappointing
Justin Y. told me to tell you to stay out of his territory
Dude you're on every comment section.
How did you post before the video came out?! Says on my end that it was posted 32 mins ago and you posted 35? He’s not only everywhere but he’s also commenting before it goes live 😂
@@DoctorCyan hasn't that guy retired pretty much?
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Don’t worry, Disney has a plan. When they’re finished cycling through the remakes They’ll just remake the remakes. Great plan.
Live-er action remakes
4th dimension remakes
anddd what happens if they ran out of remakes remakes?
@@Tukoendogan animated remake remake
Maybe 3D glasses experience and vr smh
I think disney was doing well with movies like maleficebt and Cinderella being SOMEWHAT different to the original and giving it its own twist but after they rushed to create more films and keep them exactly the same people could see right through it
Still makes them billions though
@@danielnizberg1754thankfully, recently, all their new live action remakes have underperformed drastically. A big part of it is that a lot of the live action remakes are *incredibly* bland.
The lion king was tragically gray, despite how flourishing the original movie was; The new little mermaid missed a great opportunity to include a metric fuckton of colour and vibrancy to complement the dark skin of the actress and make her glow. Everything is just. So. Damn. Washed out and bland af these days, it’s tragic 💀
@@meat3958 a part of me enjoys hearing about the flops but sadly I'm rather sure it won't stop disney from churning out gray goo. best that could happen is the vast audiences realizing it's lifeless trash, which you are pointing at.
the trend in hollywood is in general quite depressing, but I'm happy we get stuff like puss in boots and spiderverse every now and then
@@meat3958eah the little mermaid live action looks horrible to look at compared to something like avatar 2.
My guess ILM is being lazy with their vfx or they're not as great as they once was.
Weta digital (avatar) is starting to break new ground with realistic looking vfx.
Avatar 2 still used ILM for some of their shots but only for machines and man made objects like the ships or robots. The rest like organics are weta digital.
Disney and marvel vfx in general look horrible and cheap cuz of their rushed business model.
@@anthonyt219 The avatar movies are just incredible, I’m really glad James waited until the water tech was ready to start the second film, I have such high hopes for The Seed Barerer already
Disney really said "I'll remake a thousand movies before I let this company die".
Did disney really say that?
“Well, I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but *I* spotted several big mistakes”
But they still won't touch Treasure Planet with a ten foot pole :')
@@qrowing or Atlantis
It's crazy how old Disney unintentionally satires new Dosney
They have a whole library of live action movies that are largely forgotten. They should do animated remakes of their live action works.
Yes! They're going to make trillions on forgotten mediocre movies that nobody cares about oh wait
"Largely forgotten" means they can't cash in on nostalgia. Then it becomes a risky operation. And the corporate suits don't want risk. They want safe bets.
@@Golemoid😂😂theses movie suck big time!
That would be interesting, though most of Disney's old live-action movies, especially the ones from the late '60s and the '70s aren't well remembered. I can't imagine modern Disney announcing remakes of The Happiest Millionare, The Million Dollar Duck, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, etc.
No instead their gonna do animated remakes of the live action remakes. Then live action remakes of the animated remakes of the live action remakes. Then...
There’s a reason Super Mario (2023) did so well. They didn’t try to make it real like they did in the 90’s
I don’t know if that holds water. Sonic’s animated movie from the 90’s I feel isn’t well remembered and the TMNT live action movie was fantastic
Cuz they didn’t make Mario black. Could you imagine the uproar? I mean, I guess you can
meh
@firefly44220 That's not the reason why Disney's live action remakes are bad, if you try to replicate a classic movie with one that lacks the soul and creativity that the original had, ofc it's going to flop.
Perhaps its more the fact that it is also one of the biggest IPs and brands in existence?
Disney has truly become the Cocomelon of the modern film industry. I'm honestly surprised they still have actual humans working on what is essentially the movie equivalent to shovelware.
Encanto, Soul, Luca, Elemental, Onward and Turning Red (imo it wasn't terrible nor great) aren't bad though
@@stinkymrsnow.............. all of those bar encanto are pixar, which despite being owned by Disney kind of work differently to them
🙄Oh, stop that. They have NOT! Disney is NOT going to be that way anymore!
Seeing that Across The Spider-Verse is beating The Little Mermaid (as of now) at the box office is honestly so satisfying.
Did you think it wouldn't? It is Spiderman.
@@edwardjones282 Good point. It still makes me happy to see that people support great art.
Super satisfying indeed. And what’s ironic it’s that Spider-Verse is animated, a medium that Disney was known to be the best studio utilizing it and they simply don’t care anymore.
I agree. As a fan of the original little mermaid I was not impressed with the remake. They obviously wanted to make it into woke agenda like everything they do nowadays. I think eventually now that it flopped we might see a decline in live action remakes hopefully
@NervyGamer do you mind on expanding on your thoughts about the new little mermaid being woke?
I'm also surprised to hear it's already considered a flop, seeing as it's been out for less than a month.
I've always said Disney+ originals are basically the modern "straight to video"
or disney channel original movies
Except they're being theatrically released.
@@EpikStorm101 And yet they are still awful.
Hence every garbage Marvel tv show in the last 3 years. All awful. Every single one.
@@shinyrayquaza9 Disney Channel Original Movies are at least “original”. Not all of them are particularly good but at least they came from a human with a real imagination, not an AI
I remember that period in the early 2000s when Disney took risks on making weird animated movies in strange settings, like Atlantis, Treasure Planet, and The Emperor's New Groove. It's too bad that Disney doesn't.
Emperor's New Groove is the absolute best.
@@tiph3802criminally underrated movie
And Brother Bear. Probably the most complex story in terms of who’s the villain.
I Fucking LOVE treasure plant god damn
Atlantis and Treasure Planet both lost insane amounts of money
Agreed with not needing all creatures like flounder to look like an actual fish. At least when Sonic was released, they actually changed it to look more like his original self and it was a great movie! Disney can't take a hint and can't take criticism 😤
It's so weird that DC's Aquaman is a more vibrant and colorful movie than the live action Little Mermaid.
Oh man Aquaman is so amazing.
DC had a reputation of being dark, but at least you can see how grand Atlantis is
films are so obsessed with being dark these days! why is wrong to want to see whats happening on the screen
Yeah but little mermaid black. That’s all you need 🤔
@@janaekelis they don't want you to see how dogshit the visual is, or they know their audience who never leave their home and constantly sit in the dark and love everything that Disney shits out. Or maybe both
What Disney would do next is do a remake _of_ the remake.
But making it only about the side characters.
To be fair... a new Atlantis would work *great* with that format.
Considering Disney started and got big by pillaging the public domain?
So, lion king 1.5?
@@borandolph1267 That one too!
They'll Remake the Sequels!😱
I think it might be cool to maybe do it the other way round, instead of remaking animated movies into live action they could animate live action movies. I think an animated pirates of the caribbean would be pretty awesome
That actually sounds interesting
Im just interested to see how this effects the parks. Having remakes postpones any original movies they may come out with. Eventually the rides will be based on movies from decades ago and they wont have as much interest in the rides due to extremely outdated branding
For me, I think I actually preferred the sequel era over the live action era. There were no real expectations for those sequel films. As an adult, I can look fondly back on them as inoffensive movies with the occasional sequel that was actually good. With the live action films, you can tell that they are trying to make them feel like a big deal marketing the idea that they will recapture the magic when in all reality the majority of all their live-action films are hollow cash grabs. At least the sequel era was sincere with what they wanted to do.
I agree. Also, the sequels just wanted to continue the originals (even if most of them didn’t do a very good job of it) while the remakes present themselves as “better” than the originals, which doesn’t sit well with me.
On top of that, I’ve never seen anyone get bullied or insulted or labeled a racist or sexist for not liking the sequels the way they are for not liking the remakes. Even if some of their detractors are actual bigots, that doesn’t sit well with me either because it takes away attention from legitimate criticism.
Couldn’t agree more. If it wasn’t for the sequel era, we wouldn’t get Cinderella 3 and The Lion King 1/2.
@@coltonm.strawn1771 clear difference is Colton that Eisner pushed out the direct to video sequels in the 90s and early 2000s! At those times, Disney didnt bother with politics
@@onepresence9460 Cinderella 3 is amazing, they made the prince who wasn’t that much of a eye catching character into one of the best characters of the trilogy.
Nailed it!! Give me these 'remakes' straight to streaming and stop trying to replace the far superior original, and I'll be interested!!
If Disney is going to keep pursuing live-action remakes of old animated movies, they should do movies that genuinely bombed or didn't go over well, like Atlantis or Meet the Robinsons
Both criminally underrated.
While I feel like that's probably a good idea, I can't help but feel like they would ruin those as well. Then again, if that does happen and it does suck, at least it will give more attention to the originals, lol
I am waiting for that Black Cauldron remake.
@@user-cv8qe9ru8c CRIMINALLY
But then they'd have to actually make a good movie, instead of counting on empty nostalgia to do all the work
When Disney runs out of remakes they’ll probably remake their remakes
Yeah but this time in uncanny realistic animations
😠NOT gonna happen!
You completely nailed it-they are draining the WHIMSY out of fairy tales and fantasy stories. Gritty realism and hollow, soulless CGI are not the medium for fantastical stories. Why is whimsy, fun, fantasy and magic not allowed? It’s depressing.
It's funny, as someone who loves fantasy, I tend to prefer when the whimsy to be firmly rooted in the real, stuff like Lord of the ring's practical effects and sets really make me believe in magic for the duration of the story... but making it work requires delicateness and subtlety. Those disney live action remakes however, look like the thinnest coating of the originals, inflated with disturbingly high budgets and rushed onto the screens, where they blow up and are forgotten like so many soap bubbles.
On the flip side animation is still having a hard time being respected as the medium of perfectly controlled creation, where everything is possible provided you have the vision, talent and time, so the projects that get to expand what's achievable with it are few and far between.
You should definitely not read the original fairy tales Disney based those classic animations on. You won't find much whimsy in many of them.
@@chalk-one they were dark, extremely so in some cases, but there is tons of whimsy and inventivity in those fairy tales.
@maximeteppe7627 very true. A slightly different form of whimsy than the disney variety however.
@@chalk-one I’ve read most all of them, my mum has a literature degree. That’s a moot point. It’s not about how faithful of an adaptation it is, it’s about whether it’s good or not, whether it’s fun and inspiring to watch. I know you think you just said something so smart but you’ve actually missed the point completely
They will publicly shift themselves with "you were right, animation was at the soul of our studio all along" and we'll start getting 3D animated classics instead.
I hope that happens
A 3D animated Snow White would at least be more interesting
Because the lion king remake was just so good.
@@DangStank lion king is photo realistic animation not 3d animation
@@CountLilac Do you think that photo-real and 3D are mutually exclusive?
Because they are very much not
Since Disney is cashing on nostalgia, it would be so nice a 2d animation revival too.
The mindset behind Wish. :D
i agree! i would love a revival of the type of animation from Robinhood, or Sword in the Stone
HA!😂 Yeah, keep dreaming…
Just kidding, I WISH and long for it to make a comeback one day.🤧
I'll bring the 2-D animated style movies from Disney once again sometime in the future and stop all this ridiculous madness in today's world.
I agree (☝️).
I would argue that the straight to VHS movies were better. Because they were actual original. They answered the question, what happened after the happily ever after? A very curious thought as we all wanted to know what happen to these characters. Now i know this wasn't a movie, But Treasure planet did the same thing in a video game. It expanded the story where jim is now a commander of a ship. And is about to fight a war against space iron clads and shit.
It is amazing and cool to see the world of these movies expanded. and to experience time with these characters that we came to know and love. Now days it is just repeating old story beats while replacing beloved characters with Failed clones that don't even look like the original. Its like the original is Superman while the remakes are Bizarro superman, but without any of the fun or goofiness.
I like your thumbnails btw, very simple yet eye catching
I asked myself this a couple years ago, but when Disney released "Cruella", a villain origin story that nobody asked for, I realized that I had underestimated just how much they are willing to milk their classic properties. And then they announced the live-action Moana and I lost all hope.
Disney chose that path when they started buying IPs instead of creating them.
I still do not know how Disney could think that they could make a puppy murd3r3r sympathetic
they're only picking movies that are marketable and profitable
Cruella was actually the best live action thing they’ve done which is hilarious
Have you even seen Cruella? That wasn’t a remake, it used a character that was a clear sell-out cheap marketing trick, yet weirdly enough it did something interesting with the character and the film was pretty decent. People have the same dismissive reaction when they heard Andor, and yet look how that turned out. Look, wouldn’t you rather have an original movie based on an existing character than a remake that does nothing new and only ruins the original???? I dont understand your logic to dismiss a movie with an original script
I have to say, you’re very generous with your takes on Disney properties. To me, they’re essentially bringing out all these characters and slaughtering them one by one as I helplessly watch
Agreed, except I refuse to watch the assassinations. I've got my physical copies of the classics in their original form -- so the company doesn't even get a dime off me for re-watching the originals. ;p
When they're done, they'll buy out another animation studio and repeat thr process
These movies aren’t even canon
Just as the Godfather once said - 'Look how they massacred by boy'
@@O_2og What controversial stuff? Is the little mermaid being white controversial.
Great video as always!
After the remakes, they'll make stories about the villains and give them "depth" like Maleficent and Cruella.. and I'm sure, after Mufasa, Ursula would be next
You see, this is actually all part of Disney's plan. They made most of their remakes bad on purpose so that when they run out of things to remake, they can announce that they are remaking the remakes and everybody will cheer! It's diabolical genius.
And they'll make them animated and act like the fact they were "live action" alone was what the problem was.
"See, we listen to our fans!"
Let's see how that works out for Avatar The Last Airbender in 2024.
The director for Mufasa is only there because of his name. His directing will be what Disney wants, he will have little to no say in it.
At least he is getting paid
@@andrecarpenter2432 it's disney so his pay is the same pay as freeza pays to his soldiers: he allows them to live
Barry Jenkins is such a weird choice to direct Mufasa tho. His background is mostly indie drama like Moonlight or If Beale Street Could Talk, suddenly he directs a big heavy CGI movie??
@@BryanCostner I mean Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson started out as low budget horror directors. Though I have no confidence because the director of Selma directed A Wrinkle in Time and that sucked.
@@chrisschirripa5917 That's true, i just think it's weird considering how the filming process of the first movie can only be handled by certain people like Favreau. I was legit shocked when Jenkins was announced
Loved your intro!
I can sit and watch the remakes 20 times, and still remember more about the original cartoon animated once.
I wish Disney would just do theater rereleases of the original movies. The originals will always be better, and I think there will always be an audience for a nostalgic movie-going experience. I remember going to the rerelease of ET when I was a kid, it was just a fun way to see a beloved movie on the big screen with the stereo sound. Disney could have kept money rolling in with rereleases and actually poured some work into new stories. Such a shame. I just hope they start losing money soon so they’re forced to change.
The ultimate show of no confidence in their Live Action Remakes is that they're too afraid to cash in on a limited run of the original during the lead up to their LAR of the same film. If they truly thought they were making a worthy product, they would not fear people seeing the original and take the money on the table.
They're not gonna do it. Too "problematic" (read "fun")
Re-releasing the classics into theatres would be an excuse to print money for Disney, yet they won't for no good reason.
Right??!? How did anyone at the company think they should ever stop that practice of re-releasing classic Disney movies.
the beatings will continue until morale improves
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I think what made their initial ventures into TV/direct to video work was which movies/characters they chose for it. Aladdin worked since the original movie was a big adventure, not really diving into much deeper themes, so a show based around "Aladdin and friends have more adventures!" works. For Lion King they made a Timon and Pumbaa cartoon that was based around slapstick and ridiculous situations, and it kind of worked since, well, it was Timon and Pumbaa (and the hyenas sometimes), they're comic relief characters. Even the Winnie the Pooh cartoon from the late 80s/early 90s worked since the world of Pooh is mostly about "here's how these characters live day to day, with their small scale issues and adventures"; making a show of that aimed at small children is a pretty successful formula.
But just making sequels or remakes every movie in the canon, including ones with deeper themes or less adaptable characters, is a recipe for diminishing returns, and lo and behold, here we are. The pursuit of content for content's sake in the age of streaming means it won't be stopping any time soon, though.
Reminding people of how much of a terrible company disney has become is never redundant. We, as spectators and consumers need to be reminded over and over, of instances such as the Spiderman fan kid, and disney putting their bottom-line ahead of a dying child.
So that, in the future, we can educate ourselves, and our children to know better. After all, children are the demographic that boost a significant portion of profit for this horrible enterprise.
They will remake the remakes ofc
👍😂😂😂
Remakeception
And chose a different race to portray the characters
@@benburke3015 👍👍👍👍
BRUH! Can't wait for the animated adaptation of The Little Mermaid (2023)
I heard that the main reason Disney is producing all these live-action remakes is to extend their copyrights. While I can understand this from a business perspective, I still think it's really frustrating the way they're going about making them.
I guess that could be considered a reason, but I doubt it would stand up in court the way they think. I'm not a lawyer, but pretty sure a remake won't extend the copyright. So yeah, this NEW version would be copyrighted still (whenever that long off future date is thanks to Disney buying Congress in the 90s to extend it excessively) but the original will enter the public domain. And if I understand copyright rules correctly, this strategy would actually backfire as a the person "violating" the copyright could point to the animated version as the source and there would be nothing Disney could argue to show that the person was actually infringing the live-action shot-for-shot remake version! I'd think these remakes would have FEWER protections because of how they were designed and marketed.
@@commentinglife6175 interesting points. I had no clue Disney actually bought Congress. Are there any additional perks to the acquisition aside from the ones you just mentioned?
@@commentinglife6175 watch them modify the way copyright laws work so it benefits them once again
I'm not a fancy big city lawyer, but I'm not sure how that'd work, since being live action, these are completely different designs from the original animated characters. Just having the name, and Disney, wouldn't put them under the same copyright. Pretty sure they'd be considered new characters.
@@bobodo45 You can thank Sonny Bono for the 90s extension. (It's a shame that tree didn't take him out sooner.)
Most of these stories were already in the public domain, though. (Lion King was a rip off of Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor / Kimba the White Lion.) You couldn't use any of the characters that Disney created themselves, but you could make your own Little Mermaid movie right now if you wanted to.
I didn’t even expect this to happen but I’ve been searching for that movie brother bear my entire life since I watched it a shit ton as a kid. Thanks for that name drop you’ve just solved like a 16 yr mystery of my life.
I started wondering about this after they released the The Little Mermaid remake recently, nice video.
Can't believe there's not already a live action Frozen. That must be in talks, at least
Don’t give Disney ideas right now.
when they ran out of remakes, dont worry, eventually will happen
And then they'll be race swapping the cast
I'm sure they're planning to do it but I think they'll announced it once they finish off the rest of the remakes that are in development
I mean they’re gonna remake every princess movie whether they bomb or not, so yea live action Frozen is gonna happen.
THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THE LIGHTING! Seeing footage of all these remakes together, they all have weird over shadowy lighting even in daylight.
It’s an easy way to hide flaws in animation/cgi and make it more “realistic” at the cost of interesting lighting
@@yurplethepurple2064 le sigh
Yep. Shadows everywhere and really desaturated colour. Look at how the colours pop in classic Disney. Look how RED Sebastian is in The Little Mermaid, even brighter than Ariels' hair. Then look how dark and washed out all the remakes are. They're perfectly miserable to look at, joyless, lifeless, anti-magic.
Thank you!!! I could never figure out why i hated the look of these movies so much! They're fantasy fairytales, so the dark, bleak, and gritty-looking colors make it feel off and depressing.
It’s a reflection of how dark Disney is
I hope someday in the future Disney will make more animated sequels from the classics and make the stories better
Bambi, Aristocats, Oliver & Company, The Great Mouse Detective, Snow White, too name a few.
I thought they'd started on a new path with the release of The Princess and the Frog - excellent 2D animation, a classic fairy tale told via a refreshing context set in a more "modern" era, and still had the quintessential markers of a tried-and-true Disney princess-centric film: loveable animal sidekicks, a compelling villain, superb music numbers, and a heart-felt moral to the story. But they abandoned that ship in favor of "live action" (it's mostly CG) remakes. Not even the success of 3D animated fairytales like Tangled and Frozen and Moana could keep them from cannibalizing their catalogue and trotting out soulless remake after soulless remake for profit.
Why not turn to more recent literary classics from the 19th and 20th centuries to be made into Disney-fied films? The Velveteen Rabbit, Beezus and Ramona, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Boxcar Children, or The Paperbag Princess? Or go international and pick up fairy tales like Anansi the Spider, or The Seven Ravens, or Momotaro? There's so many other stories they could be bringing to the big screen, but they're counting on Gen X and Millennials to bring their kids to these husks of beloved films so they can bank on their nostalgia without risking a box office flop. The audience isn't afraid of risk or originality in storytelling, the executive suite is. That was never the vision of Walt Disney, and I think someone needs to remind Bob Iger of that.
Agreed!! If you haven’t seen Chuck Jones’ outstanding animation of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, you absolutely gotta!
That’s a great movie that I remember from getting on VHS 📼 from the library 😊
nooooo don't let them use the system to control more public domain property
@@shinyrayquaza9 Exactly this
@@shinyrayquaza9 Exactly this
i'd kill for a ramona remake
Still wishing more of these remakes were like Maleficient. Yes, it was still clearly tied to the animated sleeping beauty, but by switching the pov it had so much more to say
Meh, by retconning what happened in the original. I still get irked when they changed Maleficent's line from "She will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and DIE" to "She will fall into a sleep like death." 🙄 Fuck, Disney, for a supposed villain protagonist, she sure isn't acting villainous. Same thing in Cruella and Artemis Fowl. Disney watering down villains is a huge disappointment for me. How the hell do you take Cruella, whose entire thing is wanting to make a fur coat out of puppies, and make her sympathetic? By giving her a sad backstory where dogs killed her mom and just... not showing her torturing puppies.
They should make cartoon movies of their live action, lika a Pirates of the Caribean cartoon. Groundbreaking
I think a good idea for Disney would be to make another attempt at The Chronicles of Prydain books, the origin The Black Cauldron.
Even if the sequels varied in quality, at least they told original stories.
Yeah until they started using episodes of the cartoons to make the sequels. That was kind of lazy. Tarzan and Jane did that, so did Hercules Zero to Hero. Atlantis Milo's Return was interesting because the episodes they edited together were going to be for an actual tv series that got cancelled along with the real sequel.
Simple, they remake their newer films, they’re already trying this with Moana, a film that’s less then 10 years old
Yeah but that’s because of the rock.
@@alexanderguerrero347 If that movie is a success, they’ll definitely make more remakes of the modern films, get ready for live action Wreck-It-Ralph with Jack Black and Jim Carrey making cameos
@@IcyDiamond Just like I said, "Eventually Disney will make animated adaptations of their live-action adaptations of their animated classics. It'll happen, I guaran-fucking-tee ya".
@@IcyDiamondDon't forget they gotta race swap everyone for diversity. What's next, Terry Crews starring as Elsa in live action Frozen
@@sofia_a7they're not gonna do that. He's muscular. They need someone who's "body positive" wink wink.
if they wanted to make, say, an R-rated version of TLK live-action, I think the realism could work. It would be bloody as hell and that would at least be interesting and satisfy one of the big movie-making categories that sells well. obviously since it's Disney, that will never happen, but relying on pure nostalgia just leaves these remakes looking sad. the MAGIC of Disney movies comes from the fantastical worlds they bring to life in animation, NOT the live-action world we already live every day. it's just disappointing.
When they had that board meeting when somebody said their catalog of animated films is just storyboards waiting to be shot in live action, it's obvious that they'll be making live action of their Pixar catalog and make a live action Toy Story etc.
The only Disney live action remake that I would be interested in would be The Black Cauldron. I think that's a movie that would work in live action, and it's definetly a movie where Disney wouldn't just redo the plot 1:1 because of its well known box office failure back then. It won't happen though, because it's The Black Cauldron.
I doubt they'd do it justice and it's not like necessary eitherway, I'm tired of this trend of reboots, remasters and remakes; never different enough from the original to be uniquely appreciated, always only similar enough for their changes to be a downgrade and the film/game to be inferior to the original by comparison.
The only one I actually want.
Why don't you just make a Faithful Prydain Chronicles adaptation at that point?!
@@Lofirainbows all of the remakes are unnecessary, but if they're doing them regardless, they may as well be cool.
@@itsaUSBline Agreed, but they don't take many chances
If we must dive into the more obscure Disney films, lets see an Atlantis or Treasure planet remake. Those are the only 2 that might benefit from a live action reinterpretation. The more likely though is they're going to dig into the Pixar catalog.
Imagine how horrifying live action Toy Story or Cars would be
Do a live-action Black Cauldron and actually adapt the source material right this time
Imagine Denis Villeneue makes a live action Atlantis
@@LordMangudai Live action Black Cauldron would go nuts. The idea makes me wanna watch Dark Crystal.
If they even DARE to make live-action remake of any Pixar movie...
Can’t wait to hear the remake of strange world tomorrow!
As some have said before, this was never about doing anything new with the characters/IPs, a cash grab or so on. Literally the entire purpose of these live action "remakes" with every movie they ever made, is so they can keep the IP/trademark/copyright as theirs alone to essentially hoard all of this til the end of time. As Disney is the ultimate "original the character donut steel" That Guy who is the very reason IP/copyright law has kept everything from the mid 1930s onward from ever coming to the PD.
I just don't understand why Disney doesn't put all this money into new films and talent, because they can still make good stuff. Encanto, Moana, Wreck it Ralph, Tangled, etc. Frozen came out just 10 years ago, and it was a HUGE hit. Wouldn't they make more money off of another Frozen (not a literal another Frozen, but metaphorical, please don't make a live action Frozen), than a movie that already lived its life? You can still sell a Lion King shirt without a reboot. They're just destroying their reputation.
I refuse to believe Frozen came out 10 years ago thats just..... impossible 😭
I can think of dozens of fairy tales they haven't done yet either. I don't get it.
Disney has discovered that basically anything they do will still rake in the cash, so there's no need to take any risks. New is risky, so they don't do new.
I'm actually hoping for a remake of Black Cauldron, just to see if they can make a bad movie even worse.
Disney will always find a way.
😂😂😂
I like Black Cauldron godamnit 😭
One of the few Disney movies I actually want remade, because it's based on an excellent book that the movie didn't do justice to at all and which could actually be a really great live action fantasy if done right
Those books are so good though
At least the direct to video movies were not expected to be as good or even better than the classics. We just watched them for what they were.
oh youre like me, i also only had King of Thieves on VHS haha
that movie slapped
Oh please, the GOOD Disney sequels are looking better and better than the Disney remakes at this point
I've seen your comments before on Ryan Kinel's videos multiple times. I don't watch RK Outpost anymore, FYI.
Lion king 2 and Aladdin 2 and 3 are better than the remakes LMAOO
@@Kelsey1987 Well, that’s debatable.
I can only hope that A24 continues its momentous rise to relevancy to set a new industry standard of releasing a higher volume of lower budget and more experimental movies. I would love to see what veteran Disney creators would do with such a possibility, and I think it might be the only way for me personally to recapture the old Disney magic.
Well technically they don't do the movies themselves right? They only buy the rights or something (indirectly produce them or whatever, I read it somewhere). Anyway I still know what you mean. But also I guess a "Everything everywhere all at once" only happens once in a lifetime
@@moongirl8807 A24 used to only buy the rights, but they've moved into production as well! :D EEAAO was great, absolutely phenomenal, but there's in general a very specific vibe/magic that experimental small productions have that, to me, gets lost when movies are made with the express purpose of appealing to as many people as possible. It restraints creative freedom and the willingness to take creative risks. I would just love it if some of the profit that the next Marvel blockbuster makes could be reinvested in some risky & small-scale projects that may never find similar success on a wider scale but could intimately affect the select few who do resonate with the material.
@@moongirl8807 Gosh my previous comment was already far longer than I anticipated but you got my thoughts running amok 😂 Take A24's recent release "Beau is Afraid". I don't think people who aren't familiar with social anxiety in some way (be it personal or through acquaintances, academia) will be able to fully appreciate what it has to say. It's niche. It therefore probably won't recreate EEAAO's success. But to people who can relate to Beau, it could very well surpass EEAAO in terms of personal impact. In the way the movie makes them feel seen. You can't quantify personal impact as easily as ticket sales, but to me, it's what art is really all about.
@undercoverduck ah interesting. Yeah I mean not everything has to be a smash hit to be a success, although companies want to see the money. I agree, they got way too comfortable and I think that's maybe bc of the pandemic: they were afraid of trying something new but at the same time put millions into old stuff. Also they realized they don't need that many people, and with the rise of AI and the writer's strike I fear that they wanna make humans as replacable as possible (see Drew Gooden's recent video for this topic).
I just watched the Space Ninja video about franchises and I might wanna add that these weird and bad remakes were mostly financial successes. That's why Disney keeps making the live action movies, this video makes it sound like they were all flops but they actually brought in so much money at the box office.
What confuses me the most is this absolute abnormal behaviour of greenlighting something great every few years, seeing that the fans love it but then still canceling it. Like why? Maybe it's bc fan favourites often don't make the money that the loyal fans think they do, but the platforms need these shows to keep costumers. I mean it's the same with Netflix, they make a fantastic show every few years and then suddenly cancel it after 2 seasons. But they don't get that in that case, money probably isn't everything. Or they don't care bc their trash stuff always goes viral and keeps them afloat regardless. No artistic integrity in any case.
In conclusion: it's always about the money. And if something actually great happens, that's just the magic of Hollywood, right😂
Well, I have a better plan for that. My strategy is: Create original stories for your live-action movies INSTEAD of remakes! Once I get to work at Disney, that will be the strategy they'll follow.
They're gonna make every classic in 3d animated
They could do their own story: how Disney went from one of the worlds biggest corporations to insolvent in under 2 years
Financially these remakes are highly profitable.
@@CptApplestrudl some are for sure. Lion king, aladan, and jungle book were profitable but pinochio, Peter Pan are among the losers. Disneys other assets depend on the success of the movies and so movie failures resonate throughout the company are are needed to generate the cash to cover Disneys huge debt. That debt was generated by Iger who borrowed and bought assets instead of developing them himself.
@@RossM3838 Disney narratives towards children do not make parents happy now. See new bud light year film. It bombed. Disney are groomers now
Agreed! Heck they could even do an original story involving a ghost deer and a little girl.
Play on the words "Dearly Departed" but changed to "Deerly Departed".
Have the drama occur when the mother of the girl begins to date a guy, the very guy who killed the deer, who has ulterior EVIL motives towards the girl AND the mother.
@@RossM3838then why hore him as ceo if he couldn't manage the currency right?
Man, we could've had an Aristocats 2. I really want to know what that would be like. As much as the straight-to-video remakes weren't great, and did kind of cheapen the originals, there will always be a special place in my heart for Lion King 2.
I had always thought Lion King 2 actually added more to the originals and the universe. Solid gold movie.
Lion King 2, despite the animation budget obviously not being on par with Lion King, is a really good movie and, in my opinion, one of the very few happy accidents to come out from the direct to dvd sequel era.
I really liked the Aladdin animated sequels.
Lion King 1½ is unironically really good
I know some disagree on some of them majorly while some are talked about more, like Cinderella III. A film that both respected the original, actually expanded upon the prince's character, naturally redeemed (as opposed to the forced nonsense the modern age always has) and in the end there's a call-back to the only good thing to come out of 2, the story with her and the baker. Lion King 2 is actually my favorite by far but I also really enjoyed Aladdin and the King Of Thieves.
Others that people either say they hate but don't, guilty pleasure, etc, well I'd say a good deal of them still had heart and soul in them. Something the live-action remakes have literally none of. Maybe Maleficent despite being an odd choice to give the "Wicked" treatment, though it obviously worked way better than Joker-lite/Two-Face "Cruella."
Just like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, they start again from the other end
Disney's new 100 anniversary movie 'Wish' is super interesting. Very cool art design, meeting the old style with new. I think this is their future. Highly recommend you take a look.
The funny thing is I'd respect it more if they focused on less successful movies like a black cauldron or treasure planet. It makes more sense for Hollywood to do this and yet they refuse to.
Why would they? From their perspective those were failures. So why would they waste money on something that was a failure that no one cared about to begin with.
Remember, Disney is a soulless corporation. It is devoid of creativity or good will.
Exactly, they should remake films with solid concepts which weren't executed that well, as opposed to those that are basically already perfect
I mean, once they finish the classics, it would be interesting to see whether or not they'll remake their lesser known animated films or at least their cult classics like Atlantis the Lost Empire, Emperor's New Groove, Treasure Planet, or most likely Pocahontas.
Don't think Disney will dare to remake Pocahontas. The Emperor's New Groove has some similar issued, though the movie is pretty well liked in Peru. Honestly I would rather watch an adaption of Emperor's original script, Kingdom of The Sun, but only if they make in 2D
ngl a live action Atlantis might be good
@@KaylaPearlCPNinja They don't even care about backlash. Just look at The Little Mermaid - it got ratioed to death and got trashed by criticism, yet they're still going.
@@KaylaPearlCPNinja They'd probably make her hispanic or some shit anyway.
Ngl, I would be super interested to see a live action Emperor’s New Groove.
It would be interesting to see if they remake The Black Cauldron. Which originally failed at the Box Office. Although making it Live Action and changing the story a bit, it could actually be good.
YES, Aladdin and the prince of thieves and the tv show, had very fond memories of them. Think i had a happy meal toy of the villain from the movie once upon a time, one with the clawed brass knuckles or something 😂
the lion king genuinely had one of the best sequels in animated disney history because they stuck to the shakespearean themes and created some sick ass bangers, if they touch it with a remake, i'm going to explode and take every single one of them with me
You and me both. I still haven’t, and will neeeever forgive them for what they did with the Lion King live action, but if they do it for the god-tier sequel too? I’ll bury them alive. :)
third one was a good comedy twist as well
i am actually super happy with Disney fumbling this hard. I want this company to have multiple losses, in live actions, series, movies, animations, MCU, everything. I want them to take a step back and think everything normally. Without a formula and ofcourse a profit incentive but one backed with telling a good story.
I was so so soooo happy that SpiderVerse beat Little Mermaid at the box office. This movie is also about a black person, it even has a trans, it has an Indian too! This was a real movie and a good story.
You know that will never happen mate. It's fun to dream but reality is reality.
'It has a trans'... Lol.
You heard of live action remakes of animated movies, Now get ready for animated remakes of live action remakes.
One thing I've always found weird is that Disney, *THE* animation studio, is now acting like animation is second tier entertainment. I mean, how can you build your entire success to animated movies, and then act like they're worthless?
Imagine if Studio Ghibli decides to stop making animated movies, and just starts creating live action versions of their movies (they could, since they're usually adaptation of novels).
What’s also interesting is that a lot of these movies have already been adapted to the stage. And the theater adaptations provide tons of new material and differences from the original movies. And these remakes use none of it.
In the stage version of The Little Mermaid, the entire second half is completely different from the movie, as Ursula doesn’t create a fake human to hypnotize Eric.
But the remake movie leaves it in.
It’s even more ridiculous in Beauty and the Beast because the song “Evermore” is basically the same as a different song in the stage show called “If I Can’t Love Her” but the remake doesn’t use it.
I guess Disney will have do what it once did in the 90s and early 2010s: tell original (albeit inspired by classic fairy tale/mythology) stories. It’ll be good for them, and the box office.
The problem is: They're unable to do that.
Their current company culture created a lack of leadership and vision and that won't change for a long time.
And even if they magically got their act together and were able to create new original stories, half the country would probably hate them anyway, because they would get accused of either being too bigoted or too woke...
Atlantis was more or less Stargate minus the portal. Lilo and Stich was original. Unless you compare it to E.T.
I mean being inspired by those stories is a recipe for timeless tales, a lot of Shakespeare's library is inspired by mythology. Romeo and Juliet is a babylonian folk tale (and as much as romeo and juliet is one of his weaker works, it's still timeless), Midsummer Night's Dream is set in Athens under Theseus and Hippolyta's reign, Troilus and Cressida is just straight up a myth, Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, etc. all are based on myths and they're some of the greatest works ever.
Disney does that again, 400 years later, and once again, makes timeless works of art that are beloved by many decades later
I did hear they were making a Princess & the Pea film. There are so many fairy tales they could turn into movies such as;
Rumpelstiltksin
Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel & Gretel
Despite junglebook being a live remake, atleast it had a different story that didn't divert from its themes of being human. But I do think that it all comes to the fact that there was at least one human actor who is interacting with said animals that provided that sense of believability that lion king failed to capture despite both being directed by Jon favaro
It actually felt like they were readapting the source material rather than just remaking the animated film, but with enough similarities to fans of the animated film (like the songs) to tug at people's nostalgia.
There was a live action remake of Pete’s Dragon that had a better RT critics score than the animated one so I’d kinda like to see them to the same with their not so good (or underrated) animated ones just to improve upon them like Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Black Cauldron, and that’s about it. Not sure about Brother Bear, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Oliver & Company, Home on the Range, Tarzan (well we had a live action of that in 2016 but it wasn’t from Disney). Or here’s a brilliant idea: make animated remakes of live action films that bombed? Tomorrowland, John Carter, The Lone Ranger, Black Hole, etc.
Nostalgia is a strong drug
And Disney became the biggest dealer of all
Disney weaponized nostalgia harder than Hollywood ever could've imagined.
not strong for me, as I passed on almost all, and went back to watch the original
Nah. that would imply they were giving us what we want.
When will we get the "Steamboat Willie" live action adaptation?
After they run out they are going to hop on the trend of combining 3D animation and hand drawn 2D animation in a whole new round of movie remakes.
We know they have hit rock bottom when they do a Disney / Marvel / Star Wars cross over movies. At some point they will do it.
Cinderella 3 for me is a lot like how you described Return of Jafar. It had a lot of high notes, while I can't confidently call it better than the first one, I definitely watched it more than the first two back in my childhood, and it doesn't have the boring "straight to DVD" feel that a lot of the other sequels for Disney movies had.
I think they should do remakes that still allow the cartoonish expressions and nature of the CARTOON characters. Sonic did a great job of being realistic looking enough to be believable alongside live actors, but staying cartoonish. Disney could totally pull that off and make more CGI remakes in this way. Photorealistic Stitch will be terrifying if they dont
CGI today does not look realistic at all. Maybe some day in the future
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449District 9:
@@thedemolitionsexpertsledge5552 ok you got a point.
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 tbh I was expecting you to argue but I’m glad you didn’t, District 9 genuinely has some of the most realistic CGI I’ve ever seen
@@thedemolitionsexpertsledge5552 yeah absolutely. I was thinking about the Sonic stuff in the op comment or even Avatar 2 which is considered the pinnacle of CGI but to me still looks as a glorified videogame cut scene, but you got me with District 9, had forgotten about that masterpiece for a moment. Btw just saw a video the other day about how they did it. Look it up, if you haven’t yet. Instead of throwing money at it they used creativity, passion and a lot of sweat and tears
They are going to make animated adaptions of the live action adaptions
I remember being so hyped for the Aladdin tv show and return of Jafar I still think it's one of the best Disney sequels and as a kid I didn't notice or care about the voice change
I honestly wouldn't mind a new take on Little Mermaid II if they're gonna do these sequels. The core concept of Ariel having a daughter who wants to love in the sea is actually very compelling, you could make a good movie out of that
But it feels like the writers of these remakes don't understand the core concepts and messages of the originals. I am convinced the writers of the new Peter Pan are simpletons.
There's already a movie on that and no one cared
The little mermaid 2 is that. And it's definitely a movie! theres also little mermaid 3 which is a prequel, pretty bad
Sure, but it’ll be a bit weird to keep Bailey as adult Ariel with a 15(?) yo kid?
guys I realize they already used this concept and it wasn't good that time, I'm saying there's untapped potential there. you can have multiple movies with a similar setup and have them be different, this should not be a novel concept.
The Apple Dumpling Gang Returns is a great film. Don Knotts and Tim Conway are a great team. It's much better than the first. We recorded it (and Swiss Family Robinson) on the VCR during one of the old Sunday Night Disney movie nights - and we wore the tape out.
Also, I use to see "Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time" in my sleep as much as my daughter watched it.
OMG, they will have to make original ideas again, (I really can't wait for that!)
That will be quite a challenge for them
It would be so refreshing to see an Atlantis or Treasure Planet live action if done right obviously
At the same time I'd prefer a remake with a new animation style or even a live action TV show that expands the concept rather than regurgitates it. Anything that breaks from these shot-for-shot live action remakes.
Why exactly would anyone want to see live action remakes of those two films specifically? Because you loved them as a kid?😂is that the litmus test now for what should get remade?
@@vincehenriquez680 You are being unnecessarily cynical about someone talking about what they personally want to see. Please take a step back and analyze why such a benign comment prompted such a response from you.
Nah, those movies are awesome. Them being live action won’t make them more awesome. Maybe if it’s really really well done it’ll be just as awesome as the originals, but then what’s the point? I’ll just watch the originals. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. Or remake it.
A live action treasure planet done right would be amazing. The world is so awesome!
Tbh, I think the real question is: What will happen when everyone despises Disney and the company goes bankrupt.
The Heat Death of the Universe
That seems unlikely to ever happen or at least anytime soon. At this point they just own so much.
Don't hold your breath. Not hitting their projections isn't the same thing as being on the verge of bankruptcy.
@Aersla the bigger they are, the harder they fall, especially when you factor the parks and all the Florida kerfuffle into it. They poured millions into Galactic Starcruiser and it barely lasted a year. Merchandise sales are probably the only area where Disney is seeing a profit these days.
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 They are so far from bankruptcy that even having a conversation about it is laughable.
I'm glad someone else brought up that live action doesn't mean pinnacle of art. Especially when it has post jurassic world cgi
I must acknowledge that your faith in Disney's potential is astonishing. Kudos towars your consistency good sir.
As far as Barry Jenkins, it seems pretty transparent with these remakes, that Disney is pretty much getting these prestige directors as hired guns.
Yeah they’ll sit behind the camera, punch up the script a bit lending their prestige to the production while their minds are on whatever passion project they’ll use their Disney bucks for
Agreed, but even if he has a little bit of influence, that could make all the difference. Lion King 2019 director Jon Favreau was adamant that the characters should not have facial expressions. If Jenkins disagrees, Mufasa might end up being much better. Completely unnecessary, but better. Who knows, it could happen
Lol that reminds me of Taika Waititi. Thor Ragnarok was a really solid movie, but he used his Disney paycheck to make the amazing Jojo Rabbit 😆
I'm so glad they fixed the issue with Sebastian not looking like a real crab
How about the other way? 2D animated remakes of their classic live action movies? Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Blackbeard's Ghost, even get Kurt Russel to return to his role in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes