What Disney Films Should Be Redone?

[linklewtt]

Disney has had so many hits, but it has also had some misses. Are there any films that you wish could be redone?

If you have more than one, post them in order according to the one you want to see redone the most.

1) Pete's Dragon: I really enjoy this movie. It has great songs and a great story. The filming wasn't as good, which made the movie more of a miss. This movie I think has the possibility to be big if redone today, as long as some numbers were re-imagined and a better cast was picked (imagine Jim Carry or Will Ferrell as the medicine man guy and his assistant). My only reservation would be to have Elliot remain traditionally animated rather than CGI or something.

2) Bedknobs and Broomsticks: I really really like the original, but it has never had the fame of Mary Poppins. Again, the story is good, but the animation I think fell a little flat. With today's technology, that part of the film would look spectacular. Mr. Banks (I don't know the actor's name) and Angela Lansbury were fantastic in this film, but the kids were just so-so. I would hate to see someone other than Banks and Lansbury, but I would like to see this movie done on a larger and grander scale. The potential is there to be superbig. Plus Disney would do good to return a live action/animated film to the big screen.

3) Tron: This movie wasn't really a miss, but looking back at it it's very 80s (which isn't a bad thing). I think it could be huger today with the whole computer age upon us. Expanded and including spectacular special effects (just imagine what computers can do today!) would make this film a shoe-in for summer blockbuster.

Do you guys have any ideas?

[CLASSIC HM]

Pete's Dragon, Return to Oz, Swiss Family Robinson, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea are good choices to be remade if it ever comes down to it.

[Alex_Toto_Disneyland]

Mary Poppins , Bedknobs And Broomsticks and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

[Son~Of~Stitch]

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

Return To Treasure Island (I know this was a Maxi-Series, but I would like more)

Tron
>> End of Line

[James N.]

Meh, most remakes turn out really bad and aren't on par with the original. I think you should just leave them alone, especially classics like 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and Swiss Family Robinson. Both are excellent films and still hold up GREAT today. I don't think there's a need for a remake.

[crystaltink]

I'm going to go with Haunted Mansion on this. I got to that movie excited to see it and left disappointed. A movie like that is not supposed to be as humorous as it was, and I don't believe Disney should have cast Eddie Murphy as the starring role, he works well with comedies but this movie should not have been so comical as I had mentioned.

[linklewtt]

^^I agree. The only thing about that movie is that it was recently done, so it'll be a long time before it can be remade.

However, if Disney ever decides to redo it, I'd like to see them focus on the Phantom Manor which has an established storyline.

[ShrunkenNed]

I'd have to agree with Tron. Awesome effects for when it was made, but a blah storyline. However the popularity has stayed, due largely in part to the success of the video game, and this could be revisited and made into the awesome story it could've been.

Mary Poppins, 20,000 Leagues, Swiss Family Robinson, those have stood the test of time, and should be left that way.

[Executioner]

I have to disagree with every single one of these movies, except for Haunted Mansion. Never saw it and not really interested in doing so. OK Tron, my god.... You have to be crazy if you want to redo that movie. Such a cult favorite and really pushed the boundaries of film making and the story was fine. How about trying to come up with something fresh and new instead of remaking old movies like all the studios seem to be doing now a days since it seams ideas are in short supply. I wouldn't remake any of the movies mentioned at all. A sequal to Tron would be nice. The older Disney films have a quality in them that would be destroyed in a new production. Just wouldn't be the same. The story would more than likely change drastically and you would be left with a movie you would have been hoping was as close if not the same as the original, then be upset that it was nothing like it.

[ShrunkenNed]

OK, a sequel then...

There was talk about it for a while. Tron 2.0 I think what it was called. I see your point, EX. I could not imagine them being able to use the same story line, but I do think there is so much potential there.

[tomserwin]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea would be AMAZING if they make it intense with great CGI, lots of action, and make the movie somewhat "dark" in nature. Nemo should be obviously crazy and a genius at the smae time. They should not try to make it like the original; however, they should keep the Nautilus the same (the Nautilus is awesome).

Bedknobs and Broomsticks would be great too. I love that movie.

[Executioner]

See the problem with making movies, even themed to past events or worse older movies is is that society and modern times takes hold of it and social changes affect and influence how it will be and look. So your movie even though your redoing it from an old one will be drastically changed because of how times have changed, wording is different, life is different people's mentality is different. Even all the way down to how the movie is shot and or casted is different. Same will go for in the future when our kids want to see a remake of the remake of the original movie. I would much rather see someone else make their interpretation of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea only because it wasn't a Disney story so like Willy Wonka it isn't the same or a remake. It is someone else's interpretation of the old book.

[MayaHJ7]

I'm all for a Haunted Mansion remake. When I put it on commentary the other night the producers were saying how initially the Gracey/Elizabeth flashback was a lot longer and through out the movie, but that test audiences wanted more Eddie Murphy. Who made up this test audience?! Now, I don't know about anyone else, but I really wanted MORE Gracey. I think he was the saving grace (no pun intended) of the film. Then again Nat Parker is one of my all time favorite actors. I also was a little disappointed when I found out that Anthony Hopkins had first been approached for Ramsley. That would have been amazing! To me it had so much potential to be breath taking. i would have loved a darker side to it instead of that slap stick comedy. "The butler did it" was one of the worst lines ever penned.

That just me.

Hugs and peaches,

Maya :)

[Disney_Guy]

I'll have to agree with everything Ex said.

[CoryTheRaven]

I think follow-ups would be more in order than remakes.

Actually, for Haunted Mansion, it wouldn't be a remake so much as a re-do from ground up. Preferably traditionally animated or a stop-motion film by Tim Burton or Harry Selick.

I'd love to see a Tron 2.0 film, and either a series or franchise on 20K. There's lots of fantastic scenes from the novel that were left out of the original film... find a new James Mason, CGI-up me a Nautilus and lets take a rip around Atlantis and the South Pole.

But more than that, I think they could get some pretty good mileage out of just rereleasing the originals. Let's see 20K, Mary Poppins, Swiss Family Robinson and Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier back up on the screen with the full promotional engine of Disney Marketing behind them.

[Executioner]

But more than that, I think they could get some pretty good mileage out of just rereleasing the originals. Let's see 20K, Mary Poppins, Swiss Family Robinson and Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier back up on the screen with the full promotional engine of Disney Marketing behind them.

They used to show them at the El Capitan Theatre when there was nothing else new being released. They had specials on it. They did play 20K, Mary Poppins, Tron and a few others. Dunnno if they do that still though.

[CoryTheRaven]

True, but those are special event equivalents of an art-house showing. I'm talking about full on, multiplex, international releases with merch out the wazoo and whatever else.

I hate complaints - no matter what they're in relation to - that things are outdated and irrelevant that nobody bothers to teach or show. Of course the kids these days don't know who Davy Crockett or the Swiss Family Robinson are: when have they had a chance to see them in the theatres?

[123gino321]

i think that they should all movies need a redone. not that the movies are bad. maybe you saw whit the 50th anniversery the commercial that the disney charters are on there way to disneyland. the charaters are then in '3d' , not flat drawings. i think all the cartoon movies have to change in this very nice charaters. i think it will be a big project. if you don't know what i mean here is that video.
mickey and his friends have a movie in this 'style'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPVgwQw1wyw
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK9qGk7Dm0o&mode=related&search=

[disney-fan-forever]

Mary Poppins , Bedknobs And Broomsticks and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Marry Poppins should never be remade! It's a true Disney classic, and it should remain exactly the same. However, 20,000 leagues is a good idea to be remade. :nemo:

[tomserwin]

^ Yeah, a Marry Poppins remake would be horrible. It wouldn't matter which actors they used, it would be an abomination.

[princesschloe777]

I totally disagree with the posts, about Swiss Family Robinson. I love that movie just the way it is and would never want a remake. Same with Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews is classic in that movie. But I had Tom Sawyer in mind for a remake. So than people would love it and than want the old island back to TSI!! Long Live TOM SAWYER ISLAND!

[linklewtt]

But more than that, I think they could get some pretty good mileage out of just rereleasing the originals. Let's see 20K, Mary Poppins, Swiss Family Robinson and Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier back up on the screen with the full promotional engine of Disney Marketing behind them.

They tried this with the re-release of Beauty and the Beast on IMAX. it didn't do so well. apparently if the film had done well, Disney would have released more and more of their films.

[mickeymexica]

they never will of course, but I think Hercules and- don't hate me- alice in wonderland could be redone into something better.
--------------------------------------Double post added here.
and they really should re- release all the oldies (e.g. cinders, snow white, etc.) in the theater.

[tomserwin]

The thought of Alice in Wonderland makes me smile. I don't know if a remake of Alice would go over as well as the original. People are so familiar with the Alice that they already that they may reject a newer Alice. Though a new Alice could be pretty amazing with all the things animators can do now-a-days.

[FantasmicFan89]

Uhmmm.... NONE!

It's bad enough they try to carry over the magic from the originals and make sequels (Peter Pan:Return to Neverland, Cinderella:2&3, Lady and the Tramp 2, etc.). How about creating new classics, the way Walt would have done it.

[princesschloe777]

Uhmmm.... NONE!

It's bad enough they try to carry over the magic from the originals and make sequels (Peter Pan:Return to Neverland, Cinderella:2&3, Lady and the Tramp 2, etc.). How about creating new classics, the way Walt would have done it.


I have to disagree with you on the sequels, yes some like Lady and the Tramp and Fox and the Hound those sequels are not needed. But I love Peter Pan: Return to Neverland, its like Hook the movie only Disney and make in cartoon version. Also Cinderella 3: Is my favorite, I loved it so much, I really thought they had a good plot line for it being the 3rd. I Only wish they could do make Sleeping Beauty in a 2, 3. That is favorite Princess EVER! I LOVE SLEEPING BEAUTY!

[disneyboy]

If you ask me, I say (with the xeception of The Little Mermaid and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), any films made in the 80's by disney should be redone. The 80's weren't very kind to disney. They made some films that were good like TRON and Flight of the Navigator, while others like The Black Cauldron, Condorman, The Watcher in the Woods, The Devil and Max Devlin, The Black Hole, and Snowball Express just to name a few were terrible at best. I know disney was trying which is fine, but with this sudden craze in bringing the 80's back, they should redo these particular films.

[FantasmicFan89]

But I love Peter Pan: Return to Neverland, its like Hook the movie only Disney and make in cartoon version.

I thought it was OK for a sequel, but I'm not sure if that opinion is biased, on account that Peter Pan is my all-time favorite Disney movie, but I still say Hook is WAAAAAAAAAAAAYY better than, Return to Neverland.



ROO-FEE-OOOOHHHHHHHHH!!! :biggrin:

-FF89

[Fantasmic17]

Pete's Dragon, Return to Oz, Swiss Family Robinson, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea are good choices to be remade if it ever comes down to it.


Return to Oz simply MUST be redone. I loved it as a small child but it's absolutely disgraceful to watch now.

If they remade 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, doubtless it would be a Box Office Extravaganza. They would HAVE to reopen the subs though for a 20,000 ride. Maybe if the Finding Nemo hype recedes in a decade or so, I could see it happening.

[FantasmicFan89]

Return to Oz simply MUST be redone. I loved it as a small child but it's absolutely disgraceful to watch now.

I think that is one bad movie that should be left alone. There really is no point in doing so, the first one was perfect the way it was.

Btw, anyone whose seen that movie notice that Jim Carey is the Wheeler that talks to the girl?

[Executioner]

Actually Jim Carrey is not in that movie at all. The person your thinking of is Pons Maar who looks a lot like Jim but actually was the Lead Wheeler and the Nome Messenger.

[Fantasmic17]

Actually Jim Carrey is not in that movie at all. The person your thinking of is Pons Maar who looks a lot like Jim but actually was the Lead Wheeler and the Nome Messenger.

But who's ever heard of Pons Maar. It's a shame his career will only be remembered for such a horrible role (on VF anyways).

[Executioner]

Pons Maar is a well known actor and puppeteer. He has done voices as well as the puppeteering for Dinosaurs also a puppeteer for Team America. Not to mention other shows and movies.

[FantasmicFan89]

Actually Jim Carrey is not in that movie at all. The person your thinking of is Pons Maar who looks a lot like Jim but actually was the Lead Wheeler and the Nome Messenger.

That's interesting, because just last year I saw that on IMDB he was credited for the role, but as you have mentioned, it really was Pons Maar. They must've made a mistake earlier.

[Executioner]

Well after looking at their faces, you could see why someone would confuse them. Pons does look alot like Jim and visa versa LOL.

[Fantasmic17]

Pons Maar is a well known actor and puppeteer. He has done voices as well as the puppeteering for Dinosaurs also a puppeteer for Team America. Not to mention other shows and movies.

E GAD! Team America was horrible!

[Executioner]

*gasps in horror* LOL I thought it was sheer brilliance and great comedy, but to each their own.

[tomserwin]

*gasp* People still use the term "egad!"

[Fantasmic17]

*gasp* People still use the term "egad!"

Of course people still use it!

At least, I do, but not when I'm around other people in a social setting. Only online....

That probably makes me a super geek...

[tomserwin]

I haven't heard anyone use the term egad in a long time in a social setting.