Monday, October 24, 2022

Disney's Live Action/Hyper Realistc CGI Remakes, and the Chronicles of Prydain live action storyboard pitch reel


   
Since 2016, Disney repurchased the film rights for Prydain Chronicles, and no further announcement was made. probably shelved. 

Considering.... 

Disney is doing the stand outs, the well knowns first: the crown jewels of the Disney animated feature canon for movie theaters and Disney+.   However, some of the lesser, obscure and cult films of Disney's animated feature canon don't seem to make it to get the treatment. 

  
Here a storyboard pitch reel for a live action Prydain film by Jared Crossley and Justin Kunz pitched to Disney.

cool.

The animated film may be a cult classic, there are those who think The Black Cauldron (1985) improved over the books, others say it's not a good representation of the books. 

As for me, I'm admittedly torn between the two.  

  Even though the story was rushed, I love the 1985 animated film still has a place in my heart since the early 2000's when my dad first rented that movie from Blockbuster video.  

I would love to see more movie adaptations of the books, if true to the books and done right. 
















Saturday, October 22, 2022

Cameos in Disney's The Black Cauldron (1985)

     funny caricature of animator Phil Nibbelink as one of the Horned King's huntsmen yelling at creeper.

                                                                             

and here he is with director Ted Berman in The Disney Channel's Walt Disney Studios' Showcase episode: Backstage at Disney (April 1983) 

in the fair folk sequence of The Black Cauldron, Tinkerbell makes and appearance next to Princess Eilonwy on the right.


                      Wait a minute! is that Witch Hazel from Trick or Treat (1952) in a slightly different costume far on the right of this image?
                                                                      Wow.




                                   I remember, on the Skull Rock Podcast that that Joe Hale 
                              mentioned he had a caricatured appearance as one of the fair folk.
that might be him on the far left in this screen snapshot, If I am not mistaken.