Disney Animation to Tackle Marvel's Big Hero 6?.....

[WDWmazprty]

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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=92060

Disney Animation to Tackle Marvel's Big Hero 6?

Source: Blue Sky Disney , It's On the Grid ​

June 28, 2012​

Ever since Disney's purchase of Marvel in 2009, fans have dreamed about seeing their favorite comicbookcharacters brought to the big screen in animated form. Now, rumors are pointing to a surprise Marvel property that could be arriving in theaters as early as 2014.

A report today from It's On the Grid has been backed by Blue Sky Disney (with thanks to reader T. Miller for bringing it to our attention) that says that Walt Disney Animation has plans to develop Big Hero 6 as an animated feature film with Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) directing.

The superhero team (which very recently made in appearance in Dan Slott's "Ends of the Earth" storyline in "The Amazing Spider-Man") is a Japan-based group created in 1998 that originally included Silver Samurai, Sunfire, GoGo Tomago, Honey Lemon, Hiro Takachiho and Baymax.

It is uncertain which, if any, of the original characters would make it to the big screen, especially as Silver Samurai and Sunfire originated in the "X-Men" comics and the film rights fall with 20th Century Fox. Samurai, especially, is rumored to make a live-action appearance in 2013's The Wolverine.

 

[Redsky89]

I'd love to see Disney get the ball rolling again with its animation. If stuff like this gets it going I'm all for it.

 

[FigmentJedi]

I'm really glad they're digging deep into the character library. I would have expected Disney to do something animated with Power Pack first.

I'm kind of wondering if this is a backdoor way of getting Marvel content into Florida. Big Hero 6 is unlikely to have been included in Universal's rights package, unless it was a lump sum.

 

[wm49rs]

Confirmed yesterday in Deadline:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/disney-developing-marvel-animated-movie/