{"id":3741,"date":"2016-05-09T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:13:39","slug":"disney-announces-nine-new-live-action-classic-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/disney-announces-nine-new-live-action-classic-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney announces nine new live action classic movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton<\/pre>\n<p>Disney is a smart studio and they generally get things very right. They have Marvel and Lucasfilm under their belt, which have been getting huge amounts of praise and attention, but following the success of \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d Disney has announced that they are going back to some of their classics.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has announced live-action versions of nine classic tales, and while no official dates have been tied to the films, Disney says the earliest release would be July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>First on Disney\u2019s list is a live-action movie based off of Cruella Deville, simply titled \u201cCruella\u201d with Emma Stone set to star.<\/p>\n<p>Angelina Jolie is reprising her role as Maleficent in a sequel and Jon Favreau will be returning to direct \u201cThe Jungle Book 2.\u201d A \u201cJungle Book\u201d sequel may get dicey though, with Andy Serkis and Warner Bros. planning a darker version of the film to release next year.<\/p>\n<p>Director Tim Burton is making his return to Disney with a new \u201cDumbo\u201d film with \u201cTransformers\u201d writer Ehren Kruger penning the script.<\/p>\n<p>Reese Witherspoon will be starring as Tinkerbell in a Tink-centered film, written by \u201cFinding Dory\u201d writer Victoria Strouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Wrinkle in Time\u201d and \u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d films are also being made.<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson will star in \u201cJungle Cruise,\u201d a film based off of the popular Disneyland ride. \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d also started off as a Disneyland ride, which inspired the film series.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Blunt is going take on the iconic role of Mary Poppins for a sequel to the 1964 classic.<\/p>\n<p>This lineup of movies is on top of the huge lineup of Marvel films on the way, including \u201cCaptain America: Civil War,\u201d which released May 6, and the six \u201cStar Wars\u201d films Disney hopes to release by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, \u201cPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales\u201d is in development, with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightly all returning. The film is set to release May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that Disney knows that they\u2019re doing and have a long-term plan for their films, with both classics and fresh content.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at anewton15@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney is a smart studio and they generally get things very right. They have Marvel and Lucasfilm under their belt, which have been getting huge amounts of praise and attention, but following the success of \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d Disney has announced that they are going back to some of their classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}