More on the possible "Magic Kingdom" movie...

danstadnik

danstadnik

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Well, Iron Man 2 had that whole "Stark Expo" thing that was similar to Epcot... in fact a lot of Disney similarities throughout that movie, so I guess they could do a lot worse than Jon Favreau. I just hope its not a complete rip off of Night at the Museum, meaning the rides come to life at night only, for a security guard (or cleaning crew, maintenance man, etc)
 
darthspielberg

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I think this is stupid. Disney has a perfectly valid "Theme Park comes to life" story in Kingdom Keepers, yet this seems to be entirely new (unless Magic Kingdom is a code name for it)

I think Kingdom Keepers would be huge if they made it. Sure it needs some tweaking to be a movie, but it wouldn't be hard.
 
plutoismyhero

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darthspielberg said:
I think this is stupid. Disney has a perfectly valid "Theme Park comes to life" story in Kingdom Keepers, yet this seems to be entirely new (unless Magic Kingdom is a code name for it)

I think Kingdom Keepers would be huge if they made it. Sure it needs some tweaking to be a movie, but it wouldn't be hard.
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Books to movies are becoming more popular recently so it is a very good thought. Never read kingdom keepers are they really that good?
 
Atomicmickey

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I think this is excellent news. I've enjoyed all of Favreau's films, he seems to "get" kid fantasy as well as action. I'm there!

Kingdom Keepers--for me, didn't do it. I'm a theme park nerd, of course, and not a snob when it comes to Young Adult literature, but I just really didn't like the concept, and wished it had been better executed.

Obviously, people do like Kingdom Keepers, so it's effective, just not with me.

I'm much more excited about this current "Night at the Museum" ripoff idea.
 
SewIn2Disney

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plutoismyhero said:
Books to movies are becoming more popular recently so it is a very good thought. Never read kingdom keepers are they really that good?
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I think they're excellent. Its funny that I find them in the "3rd-5th grade" section of my local Barnes and Nobles, yet I'm 27 and loving them. I'm anxiously awaiting the 4th book--coming out Spring 2011. I think a movie based off the books would be awesome!
 
Kamikaze

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darthspielberg said:
I think this is stupid. Disney has a perfectly valid "Theme Park comes to life" story in Kingdom Keepers, yet this seems to be entirely new (unless Magic Kingdom is a code name for it)

I think Kingdom Keepers would be huge if they made it. Sure it needs some tweaking to be a movie, but it wouldn't be hard.
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Kingdom Keepers isn't a good name. Magic Kingdom is much, much more marketable. They could use the same story as Kingdom Keepers and sell the movie as 'Magic Kingdom'.
 
darthspielberg

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But I imagine they are going to go the route of Night at the Musueum and have a popular actor play a character that gets involved in some wacky after hours hijinx, when in reality a cast of good young actors could make this a Goonies style adventure for today's youth.

If this is just a name change on the story, that'd be great, but man I'd love to see the basic story of Kingdom Keepers on the screen. The characters are quite enjoyable, even if the book isn't the greatest.
 
FigmentJedi

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I'd rather it take the Epic Mickey/Kingdom Hearts route and just be a massive Disney crossover using the theme parks as a blueprint for how the various Disney settings are placed. Night at the Museum inside the parks is just stupid. I'd much rather see a real Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
 
Dizmentia

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When I first hear about this, I thought about the Walt Disney World commercial with the animated flying Dumbo ride vehicles (which is on TV all the time). I think something like this will do well.
 
MAF

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So pretty much this will be a carbon copy of "The Haunted Mansion" where they hire the flavor of the month male comedian with a lackluster script.
 
Wilt Dasney

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Some of my thoughts on this idea from an earlier thread. I think it's an idea with a lot of upside...and a lot of downside. I'd like to see NatM and KK-style concepts both avoided, personally.

Since we're all tossing out blue sky concepts, the idea I came up with was something like this:

The movie would start in an actual early 20th-century small town (representing Main St.), with an average joe serving as the main protagonist. During the film, he'd meet characters from other times and places representing the other lands: an archaeologist from our time (Adventureland), a calf roper from the 1800's (Frontierland), a riverboat gambler from the 1910's (New Orleans Square), an astronaut from the future (Tomorrowland), and a medieval wizard (Fantasyland) who sets all the time travel in motion.

Through the machinations of [INSERT PLOT HERE], they would travel to all the times and places represented in the park (Disneyland in this case). There would be a real jungle cruise, runaway mine train sequence, steamship sequence, trip to outer space (with the control tower looking just like Space Mt.), a haunted mansion, pirates...you get the picture.

Attractions that didn't have a major point in the plot would still get cameos or very oblique references for the fanboys. The monorail would pop up in the future city, a set of real teacups would go spinning off a tray at one point, the crew would come across some talking birds in an ancient temple, a country-western bar would have a very hairy band on stage singing corny songs...on and on with little inside references.

At the end, our protagonist would return to his home in 1908 or so. He'd tell his son all about his travels. His son would ask him to put it all down in a book, but his dad would say nobody'd ever believe it anyway. So instead the son would go off telling his friends all the fantastic stories his dad told him...including a little boy named Walt. And that would be the end...or the beginning.

I think something like THAT would make diehard fans pi$$ themselves, and it would take the park and its themes seriously. But it's probably too awesome to hope for. :lol:
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