No More Terrible Disney Remakes · 8:45pm May 1st, 2022
2022 is shaping up to be quite to be quite the year so far. With Ragnarok getting closer and closer in the meantime we can take pleasure of the wonderful news that starting today Disney is scrapping all of the remakes. Along with Disney saying they'll be going back to original handdrawn animation but that's another story. A file folder containing directives from the big man himself, Walt Disney.
It was brought to the current CEO Bob Chapek of the Disney company and it had information about Walt's opinions on sequels, revisits, and remakes.
“Animation is a thing of wonder,” Walt writes. “It speaks to the child in all of us, whether we are 4 or 64. I’ve put my heart, my soul, (and a few times, my life savings) into these brilliant features. They cannot be made over. They cannot be revisited. They encapsulate a season of innocence, of childhood simplicity, of joy unspeakable not found in other venues.
(He has such a way with words)
Creating is, by definition, making something from nothing. To remake a film, to take what was, and even to grow it from there, is not creativity, as what is being made is not from nothing.
(I guess that's why so many sequels are bad too, they can't recapture the magic0
My hope is that the Disney name, the Disney brand, and all that the name means to children and to the child in us all, will forever remain as it is now–a hallmark of innocence, of imagination, of wonder.
As I’ve said before, ‘by nature, I’m an experimenter, and to this day, I don’t believe in sequels. I can’t follow popular cycles. I have to move on to new things. So with the success of Mickey, I have always been determined to diversify.’
Long after this Disney is gone–the Walter Elias version–it is my sincerest hope and dream and request that sequels and remakes of classics be the stuff of others, the stuff of competitors, but that they never become the stuff of Disney. For it is at the point of remaking, and taking from another’s creativity and imaginative prowess, that we will know that true creativity, like Walter Elias Disney, has ceased to be. And that will be a sad day indeed.
And as always, let us never forget one thing: that it all began with a mouse, and his name is Mickey.”
This alone was enough to convince Bob to halt all remakes, who aren't over half done. In his own words.
“The Walt Disney Company stands to make millions, nay, billions in only a few short years, thanks to remakes and sequels,” Chapek said. “But it’s just money after all. And money can’t buy magic. Or imagination. Or a child’s laughter. And money certainly cannot compare with the ROI we enjoy on a daily basis, thanks to the legacy of Walter Elias Disney. Above fame, above clout, above power, above politics, above the almighty dollar, we will honor the legacy of our founder above all else.” Basically while he wants the company to be profitable, what they want to do above all else is honor Walt's legacy.
Walt Disney is quite the guy, even in death he's guiding his company in the right direction. Walt Disney was an amazing man that brought so much joy and happiness to the world. He's my hero and one day
I'm gonna be just like him.
Kinda funny when you realize a lot of disney movies were based of of fairy tails...
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True I was thinking about that too,
But at least Walt gave the classic stories a spin to make it his own thing instead of just copying them while leaving out all the good stuff.