Ron Howard directing? ugh....


I love Gosling..but...I dunno about this.

I have a feeling this will only portray Disney in a positive light. Just a hunch.

I will say that after seeing Drive and Ides of March, Gosling is definitely showing his diversity as an actor.

Love that poster. Gosling. Williams. McGregor.

Howard.

Okay let's hope it's the Howard of Frost/Nixon.

I think this is fake.

No listing anywhere on IMDB. I think this is a con as everyone suspects.

I still like that fake poster.

The winking smilie was right in the OP. C'mon guys.

Cool poster though.

Walt was inspired to draw Mickey after seeing the aftermath of a guy's head he stomped to pieces in an elevator.

Yeah, this is fake. And I don't like Howard as a Director either. Except for his work on "Frost/Nixon" and "Cinderella Man".

Howard hasn't made a movie I really loved in a long time. I still like Backdraft and I love the underrated The Paper, but I can't watch much of his 80's and 90's stuff anymore.

This is the only Walt I know.

lol, thinking this is real

Gosling as Walt Disney? LOL! No thanks. Good actor, but not even remotely believable as Disney. Has to be fake.

Who is McGregor playing? Roy, I assume?

Fake. Giving it a 2013 release would have made it more convincing. No way it'd be 2012 with next-to-no info on it yet.

The sofas in that poster are a dead giveaway. They've never had seating that comfortable on U.S. passenger trains.

ABC has been including this in their news crawl. Pretty sad for a company owned by Disney to fall for it.

ABC/Disney may have floated this fake poster through a third party to gauge interest.

I've often thought about a Disney bio-pic and I think it would be very difficult because he was so famous and so in the spotlight. Everyone knows what he looked like and everyone has an opinion about him. It's a lot easier to make a film about Howard Hughes who was reclusive.

On the other hand, while he was very high profile and visible, not very much of his personal life has ever been documented. Anything that focused on his personal life would have to be very speculative. This poster (if it were real) would seem to suggest a movie about the situation surrounding "the birth of Mickey" on a long cross country train trip. Making a bio-pic about just a brief moment of his life would probably be a much better idea than an all encompassing film about his whole life.

I've always thought that the best way to handle a Walt Disney biopic would be to make him a supporting player in a larger story. For example: A film about the making of Fantasia. The film would be about the colossal endeavor of making an experimental film, the collaboration among many great artists, and the failed attempt to sell the concept to an international audience on the brink of war. Fantasia would be the subject, not Walt alone. He would be part of a larger ensemble of characters/actors and the making of this one project could be made to symbolize his whole career of high risk expensive gambles. I think Fantasia is the ultimate subject; you sidestep having to deal with his personal life, the conception of Mickey or the building of Disneyland would be too saccharine a subject matter, too likely to get mired in being a pageant of Americana with swelling inspirational music and such. Sticking with Fantasia would give a Disney biopic the aire of maturity that I think the subject should have.

Sort of like how RKO182 (not a very good film) realized that everything you need to know about Orson Welles you could dramatize within the framework of him directing Citizen Kane.

I sure would love a film based on his life though. I read Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and have been interested in a film about it all ever since. And wow, Gosling would seriously be good casting for him too...

The Disney biopic I want to see shows his anti-union activity and the bitter strike against him, followed a few years later by his "friendly" testimony before HUAC on communist infiltration of the movie industry.

They can throw in his anti-Semitism as well.

I want the "bookends" to be about a friendly janitor who accidentally unfreezes Walt at the biogenics lab, allowing him to tell his story. at the end, Walt will say that the world is "not yet ready" for his return and will valiantly step back into bio-stasis.