Disney remakes traditional animated film Robin Hood for Disney+

Disney has been working laborious on remaking its traditional animated movies in live-action over the previous few years, with the likes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King already launched and extra reminiscent of Mulan and The Little Mermaid on the best way.

And now one other animated favorite is getting a contemporary makeover, with 1973’s Robin Hood reportedly about to be remade as a live-action movie for streaming service Disney+.

The Hollywood Reporter studies that the brand new movie might be directed by Carlos López Estrada, who helmed 2018 crime drama Blindspotting and has additionally directed music movies for Billie Eilish and George Ezra.

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Bringing the script to life is Kari Granlund, who’s already nicely certified in bringing traditional cartoon animals to life, having penned Disney’s current live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp.

Another skilled Disney hand might be producing the movie, with Dumbo and Tron: Legacy producer Justin Springer having signed up.

The new model of the movie will seemingly not stray too removed from the favored cartoon, preserving the characters as anthropomorphic and sticking with the musical style, however it’s going to take the type of a live-action / CGI hybrid reasonably than the hand-drawn animation of the unique.

Disney’s Robin Hood takes the well-known story of Nottingham outlaw Robin Hood and imagines it happening within the animal kingdom, however with animals who put on garments and reside in a human-style city, who additionally occur to burst into music at frequent intervals.

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In the animated movie, Robin and his love Maid Marian are foxes, Robin’s good friend Little John is a bear, Friar Tuck is a badger, the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham is a wolf and the royal brothers Prince John and King Richard are lions, whereas the Prince’s right-hand man is a conniving snake.

The new undertaking is claimed to have been confirmed shortly earlier than the movie trade went into lockdown and remains to be within the early levels of growth, so it could be some time earlier than we see it on Disney+.

But with a lot content material on there to get by way of already, it is most likely factor that we’ll have a little bit of a await this one…

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