Disney's Bambi -- Live Action Remake
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Disney's Bambi -- Live Action Remake
'Bambi' Remake in the Works With 'Captain Marvel', 'Chaos Walking' Writers (Exclusive)
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer will pen the adaptation of the 1942 animated Disney classic.
The young prince is returning to the forest.
In the latest move to turn its animated classics into live-action features, Disney has set its sights on one of its most storied: Bambi.
The studio has hired Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider) and Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Chaos Walking) to pen the screenplay for the live-action remake.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer will pen the adaptation of the 1942 animated Disney classic.
The young prince is returning to the forest.
In the latest move to turn its animated classics into live-action features, Disney has set its sights on one of its most storied: Bambi.
The studio has hired Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider) and Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Chaos Walking) to pen the screenplay for the live-action remake.
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No no, that's quite alright.
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Not surprising. They’re going to keep doing these til they run out, and even then they’ll probably develop some sequels. I’ve yet to see any of the live action Disney remakes so far. Just not that interested.
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Disney will keep making live action versions of animated classics until they start bombing. Evidence is that isn't going to happen anytime soon. The days of Disney coming up with original concepts is long gone. This is why their 20th Century Fox acquisition should be concerning...will they just want to reboot/re-imagine old hits?
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This is too much.
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More unemotive animals like The Lion King?
I mean, they completely ignored the fact that animals do have animations and are capable of physically expressing them.
I mean, they completely ignored the fact that animals do have animations and are capable of physically expressing them.
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This is completely different. I, for one, am really looking forward to watching the modern-day re-imagining of a beloved animated classic -- creating a CGI photo-realistic wild animal protagonist coming to grips with his parent's shocking and untimely death.
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I'm waiting for the CGI remakes of the CGI remakes of the cartoons in another 20 years' time.
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I'm holding out for the VR DNA-swap version.
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And now I’m finally realizing this trend is basically a retooled version of what they did in the 90s with the countless direct to video sequels.
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Yes, except instead of just selling home videos to moms and dads with kids they’ve convinced blockbuster audiences to make these warmed over turds into huge hits.
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Uh... ok...
https://deadline.com/2023/06/bambi-l...or-1235415991/
EXCLUSIVE: After winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Women Talking, Sarah Polley is on to the most epic undertaking of her filmmaking career thus far, as Deadline understands that the filmmaker is in talks to helm a live-action take on Bambi in very early development at Disney.
Multiple sources tell Deadline that the project is a musical to feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent) wrote the most recent draft of the script, and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field will produce.
The studio first signaled its intention to adapt Bambi for live-action back in early 2020, bringing Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer aboard as writers and Depth of Field to produce in January of that year. No word yet on when the project might be put in motion, given unpredictable strike conditions, for starters.
The film is of course the coming-of-age story of Bambi, the young deer struck by tragedy who counts amongst his woodland pals — the rabbit Thumper and a skunk named Flower. An adaptation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1942, the original Bambi was just the fifth animated feature ever to emerge from Disney. The film helmed by David Hand and assorted sequence directors grossed over $267M worldwide, landed Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Song and Original Music Score, and has endured as a classic over the years, assuredly continuing to traumatize young viewers with its famous depiction of the death of Bambi’s mother to this day.
Pic was entered into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, given its cultural, historic and aesthetic significance, in December 2011.
Polley’s take on Bambi will be the latest in a long line of live-action films to adapt Disney’s classic animated features. The most recent installment in this series, which has done huge business fo the studio, is the Rob Marshall-helmed The Little Mermaid, which has grossed over $414M since bowing in theaters on May 26th. Polley will certainly be in good company if and when her deal for the project closes, joining a list of directors tapped by Disney for these films that also includes Jon Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Niki Caro, Guy Ritchie, Tim Burton and Robert Zemeckis, to name only a few.
Polley’s acclaimed ensemble drama Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews, drew on the real 2010 story of a Bolivian Mennonite colony to examine the impossible choice grappled with by the women of an isolated religious community following numerous incidents of sexual assault by the men they thought they knew. Polley directed the film from her script, seeing it released by United Artists Releasing following its fall bow at Telluride. It also earned her Critics’ Choice and WGA Awards, a Golden Globe nomination and other major accolades.
Other directorial credits for Polley include the WGA Award and Cinema Eye Honors Award-winning documentary Stories We Tell, examining the family of storytellers of which she’s a part, and the acclaimed dramas Take This Waltz and Away from Her. She began her career as an actor, starting out as a child on films like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen before going on to star in titles like Dawn of the Dead, and is represented by WME, GGA in Canada, Circle of Confusion and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Multiple sources tell Deadline that the project is a musical to feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent) wrote the most recent draft of the script, and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field will produce.
The studio first signaled its intention to adapt Bambi for live-action back in early 2020, bringing Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer aboard as writers and Depth of Field to produce in January of that year. No word yet on when the project might be put in motion, given unpredictable strike conditions, for starters.
The film is of course the coming-of-age story of Bambi, the young deer struck by tragedy who counts amongst his woodland pals — the rabbit Thumper and a skunk named Flower. An adaptation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1942, the original Bambi was just the fifth animated feature ever to emerge from Disney. The film helmed by David Hand and assorted sequence directors grossed over $267M worldwide, landed Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Song and Original Music Score, and has endured as a classic over the years, assuredly continuing to traumatize young viewers with its famous depiction of the death of Bambi’s mother to this day.
Pic was entered into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, given its cultural, historic and aesthetic significance, in December 2011.
Polley’s take on Bambi will be the latest in a long line of live-action films to adapt Disney’s classic animated features. The most recent installment in this series, which has done huge business fo the studio, is the Rob Marshall-helmed The Little Mermaid, which has grossed over $414M since bowing in theaters on May 26th. Polley will certainly be in good company if and when her deal for the project closes, joining a list of directors tapped by Disney for these films that also includes Jon Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Niki Caro, Guy Ritchie, Tim Burton and Robert Zemeckis, to name only a few.
Polley’s acclaimed ensemble drama Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews, drew on the real 2010 story of a Bolivian Mennonite colony to examine the impossible choice grappled with by the women of an isolated religious community following numerous incidents of sexual assault by the men they thought they knew. Polley directed the film from her script, seeing it released by United Artists Releasing following its fall bow at Telluride. It also earned her Critics’ Choice and WGA Awards, a Golden Globe nomination and other major accolades.
Other directorial credits for Polley include the WGA Award and Cinema Eye Honors Award-winning documentary Stories We Tell, examining the family of storytellers of which she’s a part, and the acclaimed dramas Take This Waltz and Away from Her. She began her career as an actor, starting out as a child on films like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen before going on to star in titles like Dawn of the Dead, and is represented by WME, GGA in Canada, Circle of Confusion and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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I guess if they can do The Lion King in live action they can do Bambi.
Whatever. Makes no Nevermind to me.
Whatever. Makes no Nevermind to me.
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Well I, for one, eagerly anticipate the upcoming theatrical release of Fauna Talking.
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A friend of mine asked if they were going to go back to the original book by Felix Salten. "Like hell," I said. "It's doubtful that anyone involved has thought about even reading the book." Although now that I hear Sarah Polley is attached, there's a good chance that maybe one of them will. Although BAMBI (1942) was largely a serious movie, Disney added all the Disneyfied elements like Thumper. I don't know if Salten ever reacted to Disney's version.
From IMDB Trivia:
For the record, the book was published in 1923 (100 years ago) in Berlin by Austrian author Salten, who died in 1945.
From IMDB Trivia:
The original novel "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923) is not a work intended for children and Walt Disney toned down much of the material. By one description of the novel, it consists of 293 pages packed with blood-and-guts action, sexual conquest and betrayal. The forest characters include cutthroats and miscreants, including six murderers.