Back to the Future
The Mouse House is busy mining their back catalog, which continues to fully reveal their creative bankruptcy at making original content that will resonate with their core kid audience.
And yes, I’m aware of the presence of Frozen and whatever Pixar is regurgitating out right now. That stuff doesn’t count.
Into this mix steps the third master of the CGI laden film-fest, the director who picked up the mantle of being more impressed with the tech tools of filmmaking than the actors or the script, Robert Zemeckis.
The rumor is being floated that Zemeckis will be tapped by Disney to direct their live-action remake, “reimagining,” needless redo, of Pinocchio.
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But don’t let me tell you what I think about this move.
Instead, the people in the comments section below the trades article this announcement came from, would like to weigh in with their two-cents:
“Another stupid ass reinventing (remake) of a superior Walt Disney animated movie, and this shit is the best that The House of Rat can do, especially after buying 20th Century Fox? the Disney rodents are getting more and more transparent and insulting by confusing corporate consolidation for creative talent, and another dumb and boring reinvented remake just shows their desperation in exploiting the real Walt Disney’s superior animation that they think that they can reinvent his works with CGI cheating and hack people who think that they can become the legacy of a once-great American studio like 20th Century Fox is truly pathetic beyond measure!”
And…
This has the sound of Disney wanting Jon Favreau to direct EVERY CGI-heavy remake for them after Jungle Book and Lion King’s box-office combined.
But, since the real one was now busy with Disney+, they went back through their past roster of CGI directors for someone to replace him, and convinced themselves that Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol” had been a hit for the studio.
(Conveniently forgetting that “Mars Needs Moms” had…….not.)
That’s some trenchant and accurate feedback.
By the way, the other two directors who could have also been hired to overuse CGI on this concept would be George Lucas — and the Mouse House has lost his phone number — and Tim Burton.
But, No Academy Awards…
There are two questions that arise from Zemeckis taking on a live-action Pinocchio:
How many snubs will it get at the Oscars?
How many important, and yet unrepentantly 20th century, unenlightened, non-socially just tropes, will be removed — dare I say scrubbed — from the final product to make it “play” with audiences who have forgotten the tale of Pinocchio existed in the first place?
Let us know what you think below.
