News Zootopia and Moana Blue Sky concepts for Disney's Animal Kingdom

[Elijah Abrams]

In the concert art you can clearly see the log flume area…
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It still would probably be as expensive to build as Splash Mountain.

Look, it’s becoming clear from today’s meeting that Bob Iger has gone crazy and should be ousted sooner than 2024, giving the Disney company to Dana Walden and Alan Bergman, who would probably be more creative than Iger.

 

[KingMickey13]

It still would probably be as expensive to build as Splash Mountain.

Look, it’s becoming clear from today’s meeting that Bob Iger has gone crazy and should be ousted sooner than 2024, giving the Disney company to Dana Walden and Alan Bergman, who would probably be more creative than Iger.

That’s nice that you think that (and I agree Igor isn’t creative). But there is absolutely no reason to think he’ll leave before 2024. People said the same thing about him in the 2010s.

And it seems smaller than splash mountain.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Iger: we're putting creativity and storytelling at the forefront of our brand.

Also Iger: we're clearly creatively bankrupt, Let's do a live-action Moana movie!

Then what was the purpose of making it animated in the first place?

 

[WondersOfLife]

 

[Ghost93]

There’s a difference between being creatively bankrupt and remaking movies and doing sequels to make a quick Buck. For every Live action remake there is a brand new animated film.

THat's the thing though, I don't feel a live action Moana would be nearly as profitable now as it would be if they waited another 15-20 years. If a life action Moana came out in 2041, 25 years after the original, you'd get the kids who grew up with the original seeing it for nostalgic reasons taking their children to see it. But since Moana is only 7 years old, there is no nostalgia to profit off of.

I think at this point a Moana sequel would be way more successful than a live action remake.

 

[ToTBellHop]

If a Moana boat ride of the FEA scale were built, let’s compare FEA to the area cleared by Primeval Whirl!

 

[Elijah Abrams]

But there is absolutely no reason to think he’ll leave before 2024.

He still plans to leave in 2024, right? He can’t be CEO of Disney forever, or beyond 2024.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

He still plans to leave in 2024, right? He can’t be CEO of Disney forever, or beyond 2024.

He’s on a 2 year contract to find and train a proper successor. If he can’t than himself and the Board are more of a problem than I would’ve thought. The company needs to find a proper successor.

 

[celluloid]

At this point Disney should just stop making animated movies if they're going to remake them as live-actions anyways.

It fits how selling a theme park twice in one day from Iger, now they can sell a movie twice too.

 

[BlakeW39]

Iger: we're putting creativity and storytelling at the forefront of our brand.

Also Iger: we're clearly creatively bankrupt, Let's do a live-action Moana movie!

Lol, the former has always cracked me up. Disney refuses to let creatives make new things, constantly relying on established brands and franchises, but then Iger goes around touting that he wants power in the hands of creatives. What creatives??? There are none

I've called it before but the day is coming when Disney will face consequences for this kind of mindset.

 

[doctornick]

Lol, the former has always cracked me up. Disney refuses to let creatives make new things, constantly relying on established brands and franchises, but then Iger goes around touting that he wants power in the hands of creatives. What creatives??? There are none

I've called it before but the day is coming when Disney will face consequences for this kind of mindset.

Eh, they’ve been doing quite a bit of brand new ideas with animated films - Strange World, Turning Red, Raya, Encanto, Soul, Luca have all come out just since the pandemic began. Elemental is on the way. Wish and Lightyear have elements of other films but are new ideas.

It’s true that for live action Disney, they have bailed on new ideas but that’s because they have been awful at trying. At some point they simply determined they weren’t successful at it and it was just wasting money.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Eh, they’ve been doing quite a bit of brand new ideas with animated films - Strange World, Turning Red, Raya, Encanto, Soul, Luca have all come out just since the pandemic began. Elemental is on the way. Wish and Lightyear have elements of other films but are new ideas.

It’s true that for live action Disney, they have bailed on new ideas but that’s because they have been awful at trying. At some point they simply determined they weren’t successful at it and it was just wasting money.

I'd rather see a gritty reboot of Meet The Deedles instead..I do miss the days when Disney would toss out comedy films just for unnecessary beer money that didn't star the clab trab Disney Channel flavors of the month..

 

[celluloid]

I'd rather see a gritty reboot of Meet The Deedles instead..I do miss the days when Disney would toss out comedy films just for unnecessary beer money that didn't star the clab trab Disney Channel flavors of the month..

We were lucky to get Heavyweights and Rocketman. Some of the most underrated family comedies of all time. Highlights of 90s Disney family comedy for me.

 

[Coaster Lover]

We were lucky to get Heavyweights and Rocketman. Some of the most underrated family comedies of all time. Highlights of 90s Disney family comedy for me.

Even crazier when you consider that Heavyweights was (arguably) the movie that launched Ben Stiller and Judd Apatow's careers!

 

[celluloid]

Even crazier when you consider that Heavyweights was (arguably) the movie that launched Ben Stiller and Judd Apatow's careers!

For sure! And writer Craig Mazin of Rocketman, who has written Emmy award winning TV series of the last couple decades and recent hits Chernobyl and The Last of us.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

We were lucky to get Heavyweights and Rocketman. Some of the most underrated family comedies of all time. Highlights of 90s Disney family comedy for me.

For sure! And writer Craig Mazin of Rocketman, who has written Emmy award winning TV series of the last couple decades and recent hits Chernobyl and The Last of us.

Still hoping it comes to Disney+.. while I have the dvd...It would be great to have it on it and not cut or butchered especially this scene..

 

[Touchdown]

We were lucky to get Heavyweights and Rocketman. Some of the most underrated family comedies of all time. Highlights of 90s Disney family comedy for me.

Cool Runnings
Blank Check
The Santa Clause

 

[FigmentFan82]

The double down on Moana with the live action announcement definitely makes these blue sky ideas a little more possible for sure. Obv plans change all the time, but I'll def be watching this space

 

[celluloid]

Cool Runnings
Blank Check
The Santa Clause

For sure those are good. And there are even others that came from that time. We can really thank Eisner for undesrtanding that not everything had to be a tent pole. I mentioned 2 that did not get recognized and were not huge performers.

Santa Clause and Cool Runnings were not underrated hits. They are critically and commercially well received. I saw both in theaters.

I saw Blank Check in theaters and it was written by one of the most successful spec script sellers of all time.

Rocketman I actually saw with friends when AMC had a birthday party program my dad paid for. I got to take like six friends and then I got a film reel of the original Air Bud Trailer, which funny enough my dog chewed up part of.

 

[Marc Davis Fan]

Honestly, my biggest concern about this expansion is the apparent plan to retain Triceratop Spin’s ride mechanism. If the land is intended m to be immersive, that’s going to break it for sure…