Disney is planning a live-action remake of the timeless classic Winnie The Pooh. Following the success of their adapted fairytale "Cinderella," Disney is repotedly working on a new live adventure movie featuring AA Milne's iconic character. According to a report Deadline, Screenwriter Alex Ross Perry, best known for writing and directing the 2014 Sundance hit Listen Up Phillip, will give the characters from Hundred Acre Woods a new lease of life.
The Independent also claimed said that the movie will feature an adult feature an adult Christopher Robin returning to the Hundred Acre Wood to visit Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and the other characters. This scenario is so much like Disney's remake of Alice in Wonderland which raked in $1 billion in 2010 with the story of Alice's returning to the Lewis Carroll's world.
In the past three years, Disney has been successful in live-action retellings, the latest was reinterpretation of the Cinderella fairytale starring Lily James. There are not much detail on whether the characters will be real or computer-animated animals with voiceovers from actors.
The original Winnie the Pooh film, 1977's "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," was an adaptation itself, adapted from some of the stories by A. A. Milne. Other Winnie the Pook movies include "The Tigger Movie"in 2000, "Pooh's Hefffalump Movie" in 2005, "Piglet's Big Movie"in 2003 and "Winnie the Pooh" in 2011
There were earlier reports that Disney's confirmation of developing a live-action version of "Mulan." Adaptations of "Dumbo," "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Jungle Book" in the works. Other Disney live action hits include Angelina Jolie's "Maleficent" which earned $758 million globally last year, and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland."
Meanwhile, a new "Winnie the Pooh" book from Lindsay Mattick which tells the true story of how a real bear inspired the iconic character will be out in October. The book "Finding Winnie" starts in 1914, when a Canadian veterinarian named Harry Colebourn rescued a baby bear and named him Winnie after his hometown of Winnipeg. The book narrated the adventure of Harry and Winnie as they made their way to England for World War I and later to the London Zoo, where Winnie met a boy named Christopher Robin -- Milne's son. The author, Lindsay Mattick, is Colebourn's great-granddaughter. It was also reported that RatPac Entertainment has already acquired the movie rights.
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