It's official. Disney's continuing with the fairy tale. After releasing "The Princess and the Frog" this December, a film adapted from the fairy tale, "The Frog Prince," Disney will continue with an animated verison of the Grimm's fairy tale, "Rapunzel." Although presented in CGI animation, Rapunzel will attempt to resemble hand-drawn animation. How they do that, I don't know - why not hand-draw it so it actually looks like it's hand-drawn.
Originally, "Rapunzel" was to be directed by Glen Keane, an acclaimed animator responsible for much of the animation sequences in "Aladdin," "Little Mermaid," and "Tarzan." However, in October 2008, Keane announced he was stepping down and the directors of "Bolt" would be taking over (hopefully not taking over his vision of having the film not look like computer animation). Voices include Broadway talent Kristin Chenoweth as Rapunzel, Dan Fogler as Prince Bastion and David Schwimmer (from Friends) as Father Sam/Mr. Sunton. The film is expecting a Christmas 2010 release date.
I was wondering when Disney was going to do Rapunzel. They've done every other fairy tale....
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This is kind of exciting -- I've always liked this story.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty short story, tho- will be interesting to see how they "spin" it into a full length animation feature.
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