The traditional Disney movie Bambi is about to be was a slasher film titled Bambi: The Reckoning.
The undertaking is being dealt with by the crew who created Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, which is about for launch within the US early subsequent yr. The making of that movie grew to become attainable after the character of Winnie the Pooh entered public area in the beginning of the yr, permitting anybody to make use of the character in inventive media freed from copyright legal guidelines.
Now, Dread Central studies ITN Studios and Jagged Edged Productions are engaged on a gory retelling of Bambi, with Scott Jeffrey stated to have signed as much as direct alongside …Blood And Honey director Rhys Frake-Waterfield. According to Digital Spy, filming is slated to start early subsequent yr.
“The film will be an incredibly dark retelling of the 1923 story we all know and love,” stated Jeffrey. “Finding inspiration from the design used in Netflix’s The Ritual, Bambi will be a vicious killing machine that lurks in the wilderness. Prepare for Bambi on rabies!”
The Disney adaptation of Bambi that was a part of most individuals’s childhoods arrived in cinemas in 1942, an adaptation of the 1923 Austrian novel Bambi: A Life In The Woods. It is the unique story that has been within the public area since 2016 – in accordance with Collider, Jeffrey isn’t permitted to make use of any of the beloved Disney components in his characters, together with Bambi’s distinct character prototype. Consequently, it’s not possible to foretell how Jeffrey’s model of Bambi will look.
Frake-Waterfield has additionally talked about the prospect of one other darkish Disney retelling within the works. The director plans to provide Peter Pan a darkish fantasy twist in a movie titled Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare [via The Scotsman].