since disney's been into live action movies more recently...

[blueboxdoctor]

Wouldn't it be cool if they got the rights to do a Bioshock movie (for those of you who aren't up to speed on what Bioshock is here's a link to the original and new trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDQ4FhslSk and the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmw78t8NgIE ). Now, they could easily make it less violent while still keeping the story in tact, especially since everyone plays the series for the unique stories. I was just thinking this because they made prince of persia (which wasn't nearly as popular as the bioshock series) and their upcoming movie John Carter looks good but it doesn't seem to have a very interesting world to it.

With something along the lines of bioshock (where there will now be 2 distinct worlds to work with) it would be really neat to have an area in hollywood studios with that type of theme (and i don't mean a horrible promo trailer attraction like they stuck in there for narnia).

Basically, what do you think would be cool for disney to turn into a movie?

 

[Crockett]

I'm just thrilled they're finally releasing Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark to theaters this month. Well, it's Miramax, so that counts still as Disney? Or did they break ties? Either way, this remake looks good. The original made-for-TV version was one of the most frightening horror films I'd seen. I hope this version does it justice.

Every kid who saw the original was definitely...afraid of the dark for a looong time.

 

[Yodadudeman]

Wouldn't it be cool if they got the rights to do a Bioshock movie (for those of you who aren't up to speed on what Bioshock is here's a link to the original and new trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDQ4FhslSk and the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmw78t8NgIE ). Now, they could easily make it less violent while still keeping the story in tact, especially since everyone plays the series for the unique stories. I was just thinking this because they made prince of persia (which wasn't nearly as popular as the bioshock series) and their upcoming movie John Carter looks good but it doesn't seem to have a very interesting world to it.

With something along the lines of bioshock (where there will now be 2 distinct worlds to work with) it would be really neat to have an area in hollywood studios with that type of theme (and i don't mean a horrible promo trailer attraction like they stuck in there for narnia).

Basically, what do you think would be cool for disney to turn into a movie?

Disney should definately do this! That would be so cool! Also, disney has its own hit video game series in the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm a little surprised that they haven't tried to encorporate those games, in some way, into their parks. That would be pretty awesome.

 

[slappy magoo]

I'm just thrilled they're finally releasing Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark to theaters this month. Well, it's Miramax, so that counts still as Disney? Or did they break ties? Either way, this remake looks good. The original made-for-TV version was one of the most frightening horror films I'd seen. I hope this version does it justice.

Every kid who saw the original was definitely...afraid of the dark for a looong time.

Love the original. As to who owns Miramax and current/near-future plans, this is from wikipedia, grain of salt and all that...

On December 3, 2010, Disney closed the sale of Miramax for US $663 million to Filmyard Holdings, an investment group. The sale included 700 film titles, as well as books, development projects and the "Miramax" name. Mike Lang, the former News Corporation business development executive who was selected as the CEO of Miramax, indicated that the company would focus on their existing library.

After the sale was closed, some movies already developed at Miramax, including The Tempest and Gnomeo & Juliet, were eventually released by Disney under its Touchstone Pictures banner, and theatrical distribution of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and The Debt has been shifted to FilmDistrict and Focus Features respectively.

On December 16, 2010, Miramax reunited with Bob and Harvey Weinstein, forming a joint venture with the brothers' current studio, The Weinstein Company, to develop sequels to films from the former studio. Sequels to Rounders, Bad Santa, and Shakespeare in Love are among the films being developed under this new deal, while sequels to Bridget Jones’s Diary, Cop Land, From Dusk till Dawn, Swingers, Clerks, Shall We Dance?, and The Amityville Horror are being billed as "potential" projects. Miramax and TWC also said they will partner on new television shows and special edition home entertainment releases.

On February 11, 2011, Miramax entered a home entertainment agreement with Lions Gate Entertainment and StudioCanal to distribute over 550 titles from the Miramax library on DVD and Blu-ray. Lionsgate will handle distribution in the United States, with StudioCanal handling European distribution. Later, on February 17, they struck a deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment to domestically distribute the company's additional 251-title catalog on DVD/Blu-ray.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures (which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011). Alliance will have access to all of the company's library titles once again as well as distribution rights to new Miramax films produced in the next five years.

On March 25, 2011, Miramax entered licensing talks with various digital premium services, including Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Hulu, for digital distribution of the former company's film library.

 

[blueboxdoctor]

Disney should definately do this! That would be so cool! Also, disney has its own hit video game series in the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm a little surprised that they haven't tried to encorporate those games, in some way, into their parks. That would be pretty awesome.

Nice to see someone else on here knows of the wonder that is Bioshock (and yes, I think the 2nd one is also as good if not better in some ways than the 1st).

I'm also confused why they never promoted Kingdom Hearts more, but now that square enix hasn't made an actual console kingdom hearts in quite some time it wouldn't make sense to (though i think i heard some rumors that a new one is in the works so we'll see). It would still be cool to see some stuff for it since it's actually a pretty good series.

I feel like disney is really not using its franchises to full effect. I'd be thrilled to see some stuff for national treasure in hollywood studios. The backlot tour could definitely benefit from some much needed new props.

 

[wilkeliza]

I'm also confused why they never promoted Kingdom Hearts more, but now that square enix hasn't made an actual console kingdom hearts in quite some time it wouldn't make sense to (though i think i heard some rumors that a new one is in the works so we'll see). It would still be cool to see some stuff for it since it's actually a pretty good series.

I feel like disney is really not using its franchises to full effect. I'd be thrilled to see some stuff for national treasure in hollywood studios. The backlot tour could definitely benefit from some much needed new props.

Disney has always been in the business of making live action movies just hardly ever under the Disney name. Outside of a handful of movies I think most of the time the movies that end up with the Disney trademark on it instead of one of Disney's other names aren't as good as they could be other wise. Disney tries to only use the Disney name on something that is family friendly. Prince of Persia could have been much better if it could have achieved its action potential. Pirates is the only live action that they let get towards the top of the PG-13 category. There are several great live action films under Touchstone and under the Miramax (when Disney owned it) names that are all from Disney.

Now onto the Kingdom Hearts talk:

Square Enix has been rumored to be working on Kingdom Hearts 3 (following Sora and King Mickey not the shadow kids) but the president of the company released last year that they will not be putting any time into Kingdom Hearts 3 until the next Final Fantasy is done. Sadly Final Fantasy makes a lot more money for Square Enix then Kingdom Hearts ever will. Also in America the Kingdom Hearts games are largely considered a flop. They sell ok but not enough for their to be a big franchise of it like we would hope. From what I know of the issue it is not Disney saying they don't want more it is Square Enix saying they don't want to give their staff to develop the franchise any faster. They are massively popular in Japan and the Downtown District of Disney there has/had a big Sora and the royal crew statue.

 

[blueboxdoctor]

Disney has always been in the business of making live action movies just hardly ever under the Disney name. Outside of a handful of movies I think most of the time the movies that end up with the Disney trademark on it instead of one of Disney's other names aren't as good as they could be other wise. Disney tries to only use the Disney name on something that is family friendly. Prince of Persia could have been much better if it could have achieved its action potential. Pirates is the only live action that they let get towards the top of the PG-13 category. There are several great live action films under Touchstone and under the Miramax (when Disney owned it) names that are all from Disney.

Now onto the Kingdom Hearts talk:

Square Enix has been rumored to be working on Kingdom Hearts 3 (following Sora and King Mickey not the shadow kids) but the president of the company released last year that they will not be putting any time into Kingdom Hearts 3 until the next Final Fantasy is done. Sadly Final Fantasy makes a lot more money for Square Enix then Kingdom Hearts ever will. Also in America the Kingdom Hearts games are largely considered a flop. They sell ok but not enough for their to be a big franchise of it like we would hope. From what I know of the issue it is not Disney saying they don't want more it is Square Enix saying they don't want to give their staff to develop the franchise any faster. They are massively popular in Japan and the Downtown District of Disney there has/had a big Sora and the royal crew statue.

I'm all for a new Final Fantasy since I'm apparently one of the few who really like FFXIII, and the next one is the 2nd part to it so creatively called FFXIII-2 and there's also a spinoff under the name of FFXIII Versus, which I believe is being done by the team who did Kingdom Hearts (I could be very wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure this is what I read).

It is true that there have been good movies under their other companies, but it'll be more recognizable if it's under Disney itself (for putting it in the parks that is, and Prince of Persia was also rated PG-13). Granted, we NEED national treasure 3 to come out, it's really been too long and we were left with a cliffhanger. Come on, I doubt it can be worse than Tron Legacy and they put a ton of promotion into that movie (I was in shock when I found out the over simplistic story that ripped off the 1st one actually made them postpone production in order to add more story, this still baffles me and makes me wonder how bad the story was prior to that).

 

[erasure fan1]

Wouldn't it be cool if they got the rights to do a Bioshock movie (for those of you who aren't up to speed on what Bioshock is here's a link to the original and new trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDQ4FhslSk and the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmw78t8NgIE ). Now, they could easily make it less violent while still keeping the story in tact, especially since everyone plays the series for the unique stories. I was just thinking this because they made prince of persia (which wasn't nearly as popular as the bioshock series) and their upcoming movie John Carter looks good but it doesn't seem to have a very interesting world to it.

With something along the lines of bioshock (where there will now be 2 distinct worlds to work with) it would be really neat to have an area in hollywood studios with that type of theme (and i don't mean a horrible promo trailer attraction like they stuck in there for narnia).

Basically, what do you think would be cool for disney to turn into a movie?

Bioshocks movie rights were originally bought by universal if I remember right. The movie had budget problems and long story short there isnt a very good chance of a movie anytime soon. I love video games and there are only a handful that I think would make great movies if done right. Bioshock is at the top of that list. The moment I finished it thats the first thing I said, "man this could make one heck of a movie!" I think the level that you would need to turn the violence down to keep it Disney would kill the story IMHO.

The other game I said the same thing to was Mass Effect. So far its still a go but you never really know with these things till they actually start shooting.

 

[blueboxdoctor]

Bioshocks movie rights were originally bought by universal if I remember right. The movie had budget problems and long story short there isnt a very good chance of a movie anytime soon. I love video games and there are only a handful that I think would make great movies if done right. Bioshock is at the top of that list. The moment I finished it thats the first thing I said, "man this could make one heck of a movie!" I think the level that you would need to turn the violence down to keep it Disney would kill the story IMHO.

The other game I said the same thing to was Mass Effect. So far its still a go but you never really know with these things till they actually start shooting.

I feel like ME would almost be better suited as a tv series, but on a premium channel like hbo, starz, or showtime so they wouldn't have to edit the show and ruin it. A movie would also be good, but I sense a movie trilogy (at least then it could follow the story of the games).

I think what made Bioshock's story so good is that it had a lot of inspiration from Ayn Rand's novels, which are pretty great.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I'm also confused why they never promoted Kingdom Hearts more, but now that square enix hasn't made an actual console kingdom hearts in quite some time it wouldn't make sense to (though i think i heard some rumors that a new one is in the works so we'll see). It would still be cool to see some stuff for it since it's actually a pretty good series

Time to take out my Classic Pics..:lol:
I met Sora, Donald & Goofy in their game outfits at MNSSHP In 2004 for the Game boy advance release of Chain of Memories..

I too would have loved to seen a KH Based attraction..But the only thing IMO would work would be a Nightime based Ala Fantasmic like show to work.

But, I must say Kingdom Hearts has Quite a following..I too am part of it as I have Cosplayed as Sora & King Mickey..Anime Conventions have TONS and I mean Tons of Kingdom Hearts Stuff and there is many people who even go as Org 13, the several Forms of Sora, and occasional Disney characters..

 

[erasure fan1]

I feel like ME would almost be better suited as a tv series, but on a premium channel like hbo, starz, or showtime so they wouldn't have to edit the show and ruin it. A movie would also be good, but I sense a movie trilogy (at least then it could follow the story of the games).

I think what made Bioshock's story so good is that it had a lot of inspiration from Ayn Rand's novels, which are pretty great.

Since the games story was designed as a trilogy I would think they would do the same for the movie. I think the key is following the story as closely as you can, not just taking elements from it and then doing whatever you want. Start with ME1 and if successful you already have 2 and 3 done. I would rather have the movie and not a TV show because I think keeping the grand scale of the series would be too much money in a tv format. I believe thats why the live action star wars series hasnt seen the light of day. I see what you are saying though, a TV show would allow more development of a lot of the secondary (awesome) characters that might get glanced by in a film.