You also had the live action Lady and the Tramp and Pinocchio go straight to D+ before and after the coof for unknown reasons. Maybe the company didn't have confidence in them.
And The live Action Lady and the Tramp film was trash. It's barely even follow the story of the original Film, did race swaps and change the background of the Tramp, Even going as far making the Siamese cats into black cats who are black stereotypes.
Yeah these people could sit here and say that the live action Moana film looks terrible but they are going to support it anyways and say that it was a good film and that they're wrong about it. They did this shit with Hoppers and Lilo and Stich Live Action Remake, they are say the same thing once this film comes out.
Disney hates those movies on principle. Dinosaur practically is live-action since its just CGI with shots and locations in actual, physical places like jungles or deserts. MTR is a movie alot of people forget. Remember The Wild or Bolt? You'll never see them acknowledge those, honorable mention to Black Cauldron.
One that will never get even the slightest inkling of a live-action remake is Pocahontas. You would open up a torrent of vitriol and controversy by making a movie about a native woman falling in love with a handsome white dude, to prevent a fullscale war that is already a bastardized and heavily altered story of what truly happened between settlers and natives.
They actually do acknowledge Bolt quite a bit, they even retrofitted the revival era to start with Bolt rather than Tangled, which was a bizarre decision to say the least - other than Lasseter taking over the studio for Bolt.
Are we sure that counts towards the animated canon? Could've sworn it was through distribution or was one of the subsidiaries like how the stuff that came out of the Australian studio doesn't truly count toward the canon.
Are we sure that counts towards the animated canon? Could've sworn it was through distribution or was one of the subsidiaries like how the stuff that came out of the Australian studio doesn't truly count toward the canon.
Are we sure that counts towards the animated canon? Could've sworn it was through distribution or was one of the subsidiaries like how the stuff that came out of the Australian studio doesn't truly count toward the canon.
It was made by a Canadian studio and is only distributed by Disney, but in some markets it's officially part of their "canon" and they kick out Dinosaur. Dinosaur was made by The Secret Lab, which was the result of an effects studio being bought by Disney and merged with the CG portion of their main studio so not technically Walt Disney Animation but still owned by the company and working with WDA. I don't think they've said why they don't include it but probably because of the live action backgrounds. Why they bother to do this is anyone's guess since most places have no issue keeping Dinosaur and whatever problems lead to needing to find something else to stuff in there to fill the gap aren't a problem if you just don't remove anything.
Dinosaur is included in their 100th anniversary stuff and the Wild isn't so those other markets are wrong.
Madagascar may or may not have started production after the Wild and may or may not be one of the ideas Katzenberg knew was being made and copied when he left to make a new studio. It's confusing. A lot of people say it and it's plausible but I can't find a specific source.
Quality wise definitely Great Value Madagascar. That movie's success is because of how it handles that story (and because it had the penguins and Sacha Baron Cohen literally made up Julien for them and of course the cover of I Like to Move It was everywhere for a while) and without it releasing I don't think the Wild would've taken its place as a 20+ year franchise with four movies and three TV shows and a handful of holiday specials. Especially when we live in an era where older movies are constantly being paraded around as le underated gem and the Wild is still languishing in obscurity.
I just feel bad for the studio that probably didn't copy and got copied but is remembered as doing the copying.
Disney plans to release a short film to accompany the release of Zootopia 2 on 26 November 2025 titled Versa, It depicts a young couple trying to start a family following mental trauma of the loss of their first child, with the visual storytelling utilizing a cosmic and astrological backdrop. It is based on the life of the short's director Malcon Pierce (Moana, Frozen), of which Pierce and his wife Keely went through numerous struggles following the loss of their infant son Cooper.
I saw Zootopia 2 yesterday and it was pretty good. Nibbles was the best part of the movie. Unfortunately I didn't get to see Versa since the theater I was at didn't show it.
Apparently, the short film Versa has been released on 27 March 2026, but only on streaming on Disney+. I watched the short film and like it a lot. The setting is really beautiful, the story is lovely, the message is (finally) really good, the characters are the most gorgeous that I've seen from a Disney work in many years. The film can get a little too abstract because of one of the elements used to convey its message, but overall, I can guarantee the women and some of the guys of this thread would really bawl their eyes out watching the film.
The film utilizes two things through the husband and wife to convey its message: the cosmic (space, nebulas, stars, galaxies, and planets) and pair ice-skating (in this case, space-skating or cloud-skating, utilizes dancing to convey coping and later love).
It begins with a husband and his wife whose souls/hearts are represented by stars. It is soon revealed that there is another star inside the wife's belly, showcasing that they will soon have a child. The husband builds a crib and a planet as a mobile for the baby and the couple celebrate, but then the star in the wife's belly soon dissipates. The couple is devastated.
The husband and wife attempts to cope through a dance via pair-ice-skating - the wife's star breaks in her grief of the loss while her husband attempts to make her move on. but ultimately, they drift apart. The husband decides to reunite with his heartbroken wife, who invites him to grieve with her, and he finally does, allowing his star to also break as well. As he breaks, his wife joins him in the grieving, allowing the heartbreaks of the two be united into a yellow crack representing them moving onwards with their grief. Re-united, they decide to try again.
The couple soon embraced their love for each other through a romantic dance via pair-ice-skating again. Time passes, and the husband and wife have a child together, with the child holding the planet that was used as the mobile over the crib. The trio look at the cosmic sky as a family together.
Honestly, the short does feel like it should have come before a movie, and I have a theory that makes me hate Disney even more.
I heavily suspect and theorize that Disney cucked out once they saw all the gay supremacist Disney adults attacking Versa as "heterosexual propaganda" and decided to remove it as the preceding short film for Zootopia 2, hence why some users did not see Versa while seeing Zootopia 2 in theaters. Disney released the short with little attention as possible on Disney+ on the most unknown date possible, allowing it to be released with no controversy.
Therefore, watch Versa and share it, giving it the respect that director Malcon Pierce and his family deserves. The short film is beautiful and conveys a message and story far better than all the recent slop that Disney is putting out in many years.
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I'm Noticing they put the negress in a traditional European princess dress (((of course))). What's the matter disney heebs? Was a traditional sub-saharan african grass skirt not available for your first """african queen""". Oy vey...
