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elyse
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 10:59 pm)
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neat to be here
Hey
This is my first time writing on one of these discussion boards. You all sound quite intellectual.
Here's a show of my intelligence
Who's up for The Tale of the Two Sisters/Cruel Sisters becoming the next disney movie!!
Anyone?
......anyone?
Maybe that'll be another one for the "maybe" category....along with Othello.
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rlixx
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 11:03 pm)
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Movie this summer
Did you guys here, they're going to be making a Brothers Grimm Movie with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger.
I know....that'll be one to see
-rlixx
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DerekJ
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 11:41 pm)
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Re: Movie this summer
If elyse means Gail Levine's PC-revisionist "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", it already was a Disney TV-movie, IIRC--
And the Grimm movie's reportedly another one of those @$(&%!! "What if the author lived his own stories" fantasies, a la Terry Gilliam, and a bit on the snotty-goth side--
Those who want real Grimm info would best be ten miles away, and renting the 1962 George Pal movie. (It may be cutesy, but at least it actually remembered they were historians, which has been above par for the course so far...)
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(3/30/05 8:52 am)
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Re: Movie this summer
Actually Derek, Cruel Sisters is an entirely different story and project. Elyse is well-informed in her favorite tales. However, I believe this was her hope and not an announcement. Rapunzel Unbraided is one of Disney's next fairy tale offerings coming in 2007. They might also be working on rumored Frog Prince. The Nightingale, a project I know was in predevelopment through animator friends, was dropped after Eisner laid off many of the hand animators.
And while I'm not excited about Gilliam's revisionist Grimms, it at least gets people thinking and researching fairy tales. Shrek 2 gave this site its highest traffic ever in its usually slowest months of the year in 2004. I know the impact won't be the same as Shrek, but more people will want to know about the Grimms. The movie has been bumped to a late July release now, instead of December as previously announced.
Heidi
Edited by: Heidi Anne Heiner at: 3/30/05 8:57 am
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DerekJ
Unregistered User
(3/30/05 12:21 pm)
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Re: Movie this summer
Reportedly, the Disney animator wanted to do a straight version of "Rapunzel", but Eisner's "People only want to see CGI!" panic at the time turned it into another joked-up Shrek-envy...
Hopefully, with the loopy-panicky CEO gone, other projects may drift back into "faithful" versions again, but the directorial talent who could've handled it have already been fired.
And Gilliam's Grimm isn't even the courtesy of "revisionist"--
To quote IMDB:
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"Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring..."
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(...I'm sorry, I just can't go through with this.)
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sarahw
Unregistered User
(3/30/05 1:43 pm)
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tales
Hi -
I agree with Heidi. I am no longer a big fan of Disney, but they along with some overly sentimental book versions tales were my entry into the fairy tale world. It all needs to start somewhere - but imagine my surprise when I started reading more authentic versions!
Sarah:
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