Disney clearly has a plan to do these live-action CGI remakes for all of their classics. I think I can figure out why.

• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) Box Office Worldwide Gross $491,635,989
• The Lion King (2019) Box Office Worldwide Gross $1,656,943,394
• Aladdin (2019) Box Office Worldwide Gross $1,050,693,953
• Dumbo (2019) Box Office Worldwide Gross $353,284,621
• Christopher Robin (2018) Box Office Worldwide Gross $197,744,377
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) Box Office Worldwide Gross $1,263,521,126
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (2017) Box Office Worldwide Gross $299,457,024
• The Jungle Book (2016) Box Office Worldwide Gross $966,550,600
• Cinderella (2015) Box Office Worldwide Gross $542,351,353
• Maleficent (2014) Box Office Worldwide Gross $758,410,378
• Alice in Wonderland (2010) Box Office Worldwide Gross $1,025,467,110

Since 2010 they’ve made 11 remakes that hit theaters and 4 have crossed the billion-dollar threshold.

OK, I’ll say it. Disney is doing too much AND I’ll be there opening weekend with my kid. Let’s not tell these lies that people will not go and see this. Yes, nobody asked for this but yet and still…here we are.

People will go see Bambi in theaters just because Disney is releasing it. If some big-name celebrities doing voices it’ll only increase the intrigue.

Lastly, outside of Bambi’s mom being shot in the beginning of the movie, who really remembers what else happened in Bambi (1942)?? So there’s plenty of space to update the story and tell a new story for new audiences.

Disney is developing a lifelike remake of its 1942 animated feature “Bambi,” Variety has confirmed.

Screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) and Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) will write the screenplay, with Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field producing.

The film will employ the same photo-realistic CGI used on Disney’s remakes of “The Jungle Book” and “The Lion King” to tell the story of the titular fawn who befriends a rabbit and skunk before coping with the death of his mother at the hands of a hunter.

Since 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Disney’s strategy of remaking its animated classics as (presumptively) live-action films has been highly lucrative, grossing over $8.2 billion worldwide, and the studio shows no signs of slowing down. This year will feature “Mulan” from director Niki Caro, and the “101 Dalmatians” prequel “Cruella” with Emma Stone is set to debut in May 2021.

Director Rob Marshall is mounting a live-action version of “The Little Mermaid,” with Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, and Halle Bailey. And Variety first reported that Robert Zemeckis is directing a live-action version of “Pinocchio” (also with Depth of Field), and that Marc Webb will helm a live-action version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Source: Variety