What Fairy Tales and Folklores Do You Want To See In Disney Animated Movies?

[TsWade2]

Hi everyone,
First, I want to apologize of my pathetic doom and gloom moment and I need to work on that. And to make it up for it, let’s do something fun. Let’s think what fairy tales and folklores will Disney do for their animated features, even if it’s most likely CG animation. Here’s mine:

Bluebeard
The Princess and the Pea
The Wild Swans
The Musicians of Bremen
East of the Sun West of the Moon
and Momotaro.

What fairy tales and folklore do you want to see in a Disney animated film?

 

[Pooky]

I know it's been animated by several other companies (even by UB Iwerks Studio in the 30s), and it seems even Walt himself directed a 7 minute version in 1922 before the studio was set up, but I've long thought the Town Musicians of Bremen was indeed the most obvious material they've yet to tackle.

 

[Elijah Abrams]

Bluebeard
The Princess and the Pea

I know I've heard rumors about Disney adapting Bluebeard, plus there's the news about them doing a live-action adaptation of The Princess and the Pea (as Penelope)

The Wild Swans

That could be something they do.

The Musicians of Bremen

Sure, but they can't do it in 2D, since there is already a traditionally-animated, Disney-esque adaptation of that story, called Die Furchtlosen Vier (The Fearless Four), a film from Germany that Warner Bros. distributed in that country.

East of the Sun West of the Moon

I recall Don Bluth tried to do an adaptation of that.

Momotaro

Oh, definitely. Disney hasn’t done an animated feature set in ancient Japan yet, and the art style of the film could be a homage to anime.

 

[Dr.Pepper]

I don’t have any specific ideas but I would like to see something from Africa or indigenous Australia.

 

[ZephyrFromAvalon]

i've always wanted to see disney's take on thumbelina

 

[Goldstar!]

I still think that Disney should move away from fairy tales, at least for a few years before doing any more of them. People are getting tired of seeing the same things from the Mouse House.

 

[Elijah Abrams]

I don’t have any specific ideas but I would like to see something from Africa or indigenous Australia.

They already kinda did Africa with The Lion King, but definitely something from indigenous Australia, since that is underrepresented.

i've always wanted to see disney's take on thumbelina

Don Bluth was a Disney animator and he already beat them to the punch with his adaptation.

 

[ZephyrFromAvalon]

Don Bluth was a Disney animator and he already beat them to the punch with his adaptation.

yeah i grew up with don bluth's thumbelina, but there's also like, a barbie adaptation out there so it's not like nobody can ever do thumbelina anymore lol

 

[TsWade2]

I still think that Disney should move away from fairy tales, at least for a few years before doing any more of them. People are getting tired of seeing the same things from the Mouse House.

Of course Disney Animation Studios will continue to make original stories, but does it hurt that Disney will adapt fairy tales and folk tales to become classics?

 

[Goldstar!]

Of course Disney Animation Studios will continue to make original stories, but does it hurt that Disney will adapt fairy tales and folk tales to become classics?

No, Disney adapting fairy tales isn't a bad thing at all, but you have to admit that they've done it a lot. There's only so many times that you can do one type of things before fatigue starts to set in.