With all the excitement over Turner and Hooch being turned in a series for Disney+, most people missed the announcement that ABC is developing a show that will take place in the “fairytale universe of Disney”.
The new series, titled Epic, will be an anthology and produced by Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who created the hit Once Upon a Time which ran on the network for seven seasons.
Taking place in a Disney-like Enchanted Forest, it will center on a whole new set of new heroes, villains, princes, princesses and all manner of magical beings. While it will pay homage to the classic signposts we’re all familiar with from the stories we grew up with, Epic will endeavor to create a whole new batch of characters as it explores love in all its forms.
All new characters means that Disney will not be recycling the same old stuff that they have been criticized for in the last few years. Though if that’s the case you have to wonder what the point is in setting it in Disney’s “fairytale universe” if you’re not going to use those characters? Just so that you can drop Snow White or Maleficent’s name?
This kinda/sorta sounds like a similar idea to the Descendants movies that air on The Disney Channel where it’s new characters, but they are the children of Disney villains.
The movies are extremely popular, but not that great and kind of look like the low budget Netflix version of Disney.
But I’ve watched some of them with my daughter and it’s actually an interesting concept that would work better if they gave the people making it a real budget.
It’s still too early to give the series a debut date.
