Disney General - The saddest fandom on Earth

[Muttnik]

So now that Disney owns Fox, they’ll be making more Planet of the Apes films sometime in the future:

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Now when it comes to Disney, I’m generally ambivalent towards what they’ve done with Marvel, Star Wars, and their live-action remakes, but if they fuck up Planet of the Apes...

Heads. Will. Fucking. Roll.

The Andy Serkis Trilogy was actually pretty damn good and managed to find and captivate an audience little by little. I wonder if this will be continuing from where the last one left off.

 

[Lensherr]

The Andy Serkis Trilogy was actually pretty damn good and managed to find and captivate an audience little by little. I wonder if this will be continuing from where the last one left off.

There are several possible routes they could go. One option being following Caesar's son after the events of the last movie. Or they could straight up remake the first movie.

 

[Muttnik]

There are several possible routes they could go. One option being following Caesar's son after the events of the last movie. Or they could straight up remake the first movie.

Given Caesar's soft spot and compassion for humans, it would make sense to make a trilogy explaining why apes decided to view humans so negatively and put them in cages, especially after working so hard to move far away from them and let them blow up each other.

But that's too complicated a story for Disney to handle. My guess is a complete reboot.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The Andy Serkis Apes trilogy was awesome.

I don't see Disney continuing that story, as they are creatively bankrupt right now. They're more than likely to do a full reboot.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Disney has brilliant new ideas for their streaming service!

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Psych!

On a Tuesday earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the recent acquisition of Fox will allow Disney+ to be the home for the “reimagining” of many kid-friendly titles from the studio’s library, including Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Cheaper by the Dozen, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It’s currently unclear if these reboots will be films or TV series

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

But that's too complicated a story for Disney to handle. My guess is a complete reboot.

They're maniacs. They'd blow it up.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

After the news this week about Disney+, I have no plans to get it at this point in time. I already own all of the Disney classics that I love anyway; don't need a streaming service for those.

The Marvel shows did seem interesting, but there's no way I'm subscribing when these shows are first released. I'm going to wait and see what the word of mouth is before I decide to take that plunge.

Netflix's Daredevil died so that Disney+ could live. Sad panda.

 

[Cod of War]

Disney and ABC passed on a Stallone/Lundgren TV series because it's not female-focused.

Disney Passes on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren Action Series: Not "Female-Focused" - Bounding Into Comics

A new report indicates Disney and ABC passed on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren's upcoming action drama series, The International, because it is not female-focused.

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Disney Passes on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren Action Series: Not "Female-Focused" - Bounding Into Comics

A new report indicates Disney and ABC passed on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren's upcoming action drama series, The International, because it is not female-focused.

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Disney Passes on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren Action Series: Not “Female-Focused”
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August 5, 2019

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A new report indicates Disney and ABC passed on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren’s upcoming action drama series, The International, because it is not female-focused.

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The report comes from Deadline, who indicates Disney-owned ABC was the only major network to not hear Stallone’s pitch for the show because they are focusing on “female-focused fare.” The show was reportedly pitched to Fox, CBS, NBC, Netflix, and Apple.

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The International is written by Ken Sanzel and stars Lundgren as a secret operative for the United Nation’s Department of Safety and Security. According to Deadline, Lundgren’s character “is described as the UN’s secret special agent, a one-man S.W.A.T. team and hostage negotiator.”

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The series comes from Tony Krantz’s Flame Ventures. Stallone will executive produce alongside his partner at Balboa Productions, Braden Aftergood. They are also joined by Craig Baumgarten of Zero Gravity.

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Stallone confirmed the show on Instagram writing, “Myself and Balboa Productions are so proud to announce this incredible new show called “The International” … It’s going to be fantastic working with my old hard punching friend Dolph Lundgren.” He also promised “more info in the near future.”

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Myself and BALBOA PRODUCTIONS are so proud to announce this incredible new show called “THE INTERNATIONAL ” … It’s going to be fantastic working with my old hard punching friend @dolphlundgren !!! More info in the near future .
A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Aug 3, 2019 at 10:41am PDT

Balboa Productions Projects in the Works
Balboa Productions has a number of other projects in the works. They are working on adapting legendary comic book writer Chuck Dixon’s novel series Levon Cade into a TV series.

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Dixon described the series to us:

“He has his demons, but he’s never one to complain. He’s the original stoic warrior. There’s a stark contrast between Levon, the badass hunter/killer, and Levon, the loving father. He’s trying to raise his daughter and keep her safe from his past and the consequences of some of the decisions he’s made as a civilian. The two have their share of adventures together and I think Merry is a whole lot tougher than her daddy thinks she is. The apple did not fall far from the tree.”

Not only are they adapting Levon Cade, but they are working on a film adaptation of James Byron Huggins’ Hunter and Michael McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo’s Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent. They also plan on adapting novelist Charles Sailor’s Second Son.

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Stallone will also be starring in an upcoming superhero film titled, Samaritan, written by Bragi Schut. The film is described as a new, dark take on the superhero genre.

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Do you think Disney might have made a mistake on passing on Stallone and Lundgren’s upcoming action drama? What network would you want to see this on?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I saw Dolph in person. I wanted to ask him about Grace Jones.

Are we still getting that awful Artemis Fowl adaptation?

 

[friedshrimp]

I saw Dolph in person. I wanted to ask him about Grace Jones.

Are we still getting that awful Artemis Fowl adaptation?

Yup, Disney is banking on that movie for the future of their live action department. If it does good, all well and good. if it fails, the only live action movies Disney will release in theaters from then on will be the big live action remakes. Anything original, to the platform.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Disney and ABC passed on a Stallone/Lundgren TV series because it's not female-focused.

Disney Passes on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren Action Series: Not "Female-Focused" - Bounding Into Comics

A new report indicates Disney and ABC passed on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren's upcoming action drama series, The International, because it is not female-focused.

boundingintocomics.com

Disney Passes on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren Action Series: Not "Female-Focused" - Bounding Into Comics

A new report indicates Disney and ABC passed on Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren's upcoming action drama series, The International, because it is not female-focused.

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That's just plain disgusting.

 

[Trilby]

That's just plain disgusting.

It's sad we can't get nice things anymore. We're living in the age of nothing.

 

[BR55]

It's sad we can't get nice things anymore. We're living in the age of nothing.

This may be more of a Deep Thoughts thing but...
It seems to me that even as our entertainment and marketing focus on women to an almost comical degree, the rest of society hasn't changed nearly as much so thats why everything feels so imbalanced right now.
And society has changed mind you, but it's much closer to the middle/balance than the entertainment industry is.
So that's why super masculine stuff is almost extinct and we're left with either painfully neutral stuff like Marvel, don't fucking sperg at me about Captain Marvel and Fem!Thor I'm so sick of that bullshit, or pandering garbage like Fembusters.
I don't know just a thought.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

That's just plain disgusting.

Yeah, but ABC is a network that's always pandered (successfully) to women. Their prime time lineup is almost exclusively safe family sitcoms, soapy dramas and trashy reality shows.

They also just announced The Little Mermaid Live, which is the latest of their live musical series that brought us such gems as Peter Pan Live:

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Yeah, but ABC is a network that's always pandered (successfully) to women.

So is ABC suggesting that women don't want their eye candy? Do they not remember Stallone and Lundgren being sex symbols, and they totally would've still gotten their female audience by airing their show? I know Disney's really out of touch with their audiences, but what the fuck, beefcake sells.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

So is ABC suggesting that women don't want their eye candy? Do they not remember Stallone and Lundgren being sex symbols, and they totally would've still gotten their female audience by airing their show? I know Disney's really out of touch with their audiences, but what the fuck, beefcake sells.

I can't imagine two roided out geriatrics are setting the ladies' loins aflame.

 

[Overcast]

Not sure if this has been discussed already, but for those who loved The Lion King, what exactly are your thoughts on the whole Kimba thing?

I absolutely adored the movie as a kid and still do to an extent, but judging from what I've seen of comparison images, it's hard for me to deny that it isn't just a coincidence that they look extremely similar.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I honestly don't think we're ever going to get the full story behind it because there was no The Sweatbox documenting everything back then. It's quite possible a lot of people who worked on TLK grew up watching Kimba and they subconsciously remembered it without realizing it, but it's also possible Disney snuck in elements because, well, Tezuka's dead and it's not like the manga/anime is known in the American public conscious, so who's going to challenge them?

It's an odd case of everything coming full-circle because of how influential Disney was to Tezuka among other things, and that's probably what it's going to come down to. Disney's going to keep denying it well after we're dead, and no one else who's long left Disney has come forward about it. So it's either these three cases: eerie coincidence, imitation/homage, or outright theft.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

At one point Disney was denying that anyone involved in the production had even heard of Kimba - and that turned out to be wholly untrue.

The two works are pretty much different, but there’s enough similar that I don’t think we’ll be able to tell if it really infringed or not.

 

[Cool kitties club]

Not sure if this has been discussed already, but for those who loved The Lion King, what exactly are your thoughts on the whole Kimba thing?

I absolutely adored the movie as a kid and still do to an extent, but judging from what I've seen of comparison images, it's hard for me to deny that it isn't just a coincidence that they look extremely similar.

Lion king also barrows a lot from hamlet so u don’t see what the big deal is. Lion king 2 takes a lot from Romeo and Juliet and the lion king 1.5 takes a lot from Rosenstein and Guildenstern are Dead.