Disney is to make yet another raid into its archive with a live
action remake of much-loved children’s animation Winnie the Pooh.
According to reports, the new version will take a revisionist approach to AA Milne’s classic stories of the bear of little brain and his companions Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl and Rabbit. Screenwriter Alex Ross Perry, best known for writing and directing the 2014 Sundance hit Listen Up Phillip, will present a version in which Christopher Robin (Pooh’s owner) finds himself back in the Hundred Acre Wood as an adult.
According to reports, the new version will take a revisionist approach to AA Milne’s classic stories of the bear of little brain and his companions Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl and Rabbit. Screenwriter Alex Ross Perry, best known for writing and directing the 2014 Sundance hit Listen Up Phillip, will present a version in which Christopher Robin (Pooh’s owner) finds himself back in the Hundred Acre Wood as an adult.
That scenario has echoes of Disney’s
hugely successful fantasy remake Alice in Wonderland, which took $1bn in 2010
with the story of Alice’s return to the Carrollian underworld. It is not clear
whether Pooh will be further revised to restore the bear’s innate Britishness:
Milne aficionados have long complained that a series of stories set in Ashdown
Forest in Sussex was given
a North American flavour by Disney, with the studio even adding a
character named Gopher that was not in the books.
Disney’s animated Pooh films include
1977’s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 2000’s Tigger Movie, 2003’s
Piglet’s Big Movie, 2005’s Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and 2011’s Winnie the Pooh.
The studio has embarked on a programme of reworking its back catalogue,
following Alice in Wonderland with Wizard of Oz and Sleeping Beauty prequels Oz
the Great and Powerful and Maleficent,
as well as the current live action take on Cinderella and upcoming films based
on Beauty and the Beast and Mulan.
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