Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror I do agree that any RIDE could be 7-10 years off. I'm pretty confident the first movie will be announced within six months, though. But given the changes in WDI recently, and Disney corporate in general, things could "synergize" sooner. Especially with all this HarryPotter nonsense happening down the street from LBV.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 IMO WDW will counter Harry Potter with a known entity (Star Wars) rather than revive a long dead and if you are right recently revived movie into an attraction.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Like I said, probably within six months there'll be an announcement... Until then, you might find something on Done Deal or Baseline. I've not looked there yet.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<Even if it's true, I think the 20K theme has died and I don't see people flocking to the theaters unless they get ole eye liner face to play Captain Nemo.>>> Like I posted in the other thread, the Pirate Genre was a dud as well, but POTC revived it. It COULD happen, and Blue's brazen attitude forcasting embarassment seems to add to my hopes.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<ole eye liner face>>> Who are you talking about? I could see this picture flying with Geoffrey Rush (Barbosa) playing the evil and genius lunatic that is Capt. Nemo. They could go all sorts of fun and facinating ways with this film. I am all for it. But the only problem is, there is no ride. It's under several hundred tons of dirt.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 This project sounds horrible anyway...20,000 Leagues under the sea was never intended to be "an epic motion picture franchise" its a single book. 1 book and there should be 1 movie (if you want to remake it fine...although Disney's version with Mason is so iconic I don't get why you would bother) Second of all, you state that league of extraordinary gentlemen is how not to approach the material yet it is the most accurate depiction of Captain Nemo outside of the original novel. While the League movie sucked...the graphic novels they are based on are very good are completly faithful to the original 20k under the sea. Then you have a 20k movie thats coming from New Line...I just can't see Disney doing this because it would confuse audiances.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 They aren't doing it Skellington, my thinking is someone heard from someone who knew someone etc, that's how these rumors get spread so easily on the internet.
Originally Posted By ChampDisney Too be honest, i'm really sick & tired of remakes. And to top it off Disney already made it known that in the upcoming years there will be these following pictures coming into theaters in the upcoming four years from now.... Summer 2008- The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian Summer 2009- Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time Summer 2010- The Lone Ranger Summer 2011- Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Now thats all thats been known so far & to be honest why is Disney already working on 20,000 Leagues when the upcoming date of the movie is in the year 2012? Thats nonsense in my book & didn't you say Disney wants to do its big motion pictures once per year?
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>They aren't doing it Skellington, my thinking is someone heard from someone who knew someone etc, that's how these rumors get spread so easily on the internet.<<< Frankly, you're an idiot. I've seen the scripts myself. If you really know the internet as well as you do, you could find the information, if you had the proper access to sites which, of course, you know nothing about.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror ChampDisney, you do know that Disney produces and releases more than "one big movie" a year, right? Tentpole pictures are exactly that - and they're meant for each season of the year. And frankly, the seasonal release pattern has been repeatedly BUSTED as a paradigm lately. Movies being released earlier in the Spring are now finding great success. So to claim that Disney's first opening for an epic-scale movie is 2012 is not only absurd, but woefully uninformed.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<Frankly, you're an idiot.>> Can we drop the personal attacks please! I would hope that everyone here still has the right to post their opinions without being attacked. Second, just because The Disney Company releases a movie doesn't mean they should build an attraction in one of the parks related to "that" movie. You can have a successful move but a BAD recycled attraction. In my opinion, when it comes to new rides and attractions the Disney Company needs to regroup and get back to basics. The Magic Kingdom doesn't need a new attraction at this time. On the otherhand MGM and EPCOT need triage! Instead of discussing what new rides Disney should be developing we should instead be discussing what new technologies the Disney Company could utilitze in their rides and attractions and then develope a concept around the technology ( kinda what happened with Soaring over California and Tower of Terror ). I still say that the Disney Company's primary mission with the Florida Property has been for the last decade and will continue to have for at least the near future is the DVCs. When it comes to Florida, the Disney Company is in the Real Estate business and NOT the entertainment business. Don't believe me? I just spent four days at Disneyland in California and I can assure that EVERY ride here is BETTER, BETTER quality and anything Disney has in Florida. Why is Disney going "cheap" in Florida? So call me the the doubting Thomas I am. I just find it hard to believe that Disney is going to put 20K back into the Magic Kingdom.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I just promised KennesawJoe that I will stop posting. I need to get ready and headover to Autopia Deb's meet in an hour and a half! Later everyone!!!!
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>Can we drop the personal attacks please! I would hope that everyone here still has the right to post their opinions without being attacked<<< He wasn't expressing an opinion. He was calling my claims a lie. Someone shouldn't be called a liar by someone who doesn't know anything about the way the movie industry works. So yes, the personal attacks should stop.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Back on topic, if this movie(s) gets made and is a huge success, I could see Disney possibly greenlighting the newer version of 20K that's at Tokyo Disney Seas for somewhere in WDW. My guess is that it would possibly be put into a different park other than the MK to avoid confusion with the previous ride as well as offer something new at one of the other parks. My guess would be that it would fit possibly better in Disney/MGM than at any of the other parks. Still, it would be great to see a return of 20K, even in its newer TDS format to the Magic Kingdom.
Originally Posted By Roger55 ^^Have you experienced TDS 20K for yourself? IMO, it isn't worth duplicating anywhere unless they do some MAJOR improvements and enhancements.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror All the ride stuff IS conjecture, but given what I know is going on - and how they're positioning this as one of their few "franchise-potential" properties, movie-wise, I would just think they'd look again at doing theme park related stuff as well. Thing is, there's a detail I'm leaving out about the Nautilus itself, and the way it's dealt with/portrayed between the two scripts. And that would probably have a bearing on how any rides would be done.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^I had heard rumors of something 20,000 Leagues related in the Studios pipeline ... I also wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Western genre tapped in the near future hoping to strike Pirates like gold in a realm most moviemakers have given up on ... no, not surprised at all
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>I also wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Western genre tapped in the near future hoping to strike Pirates like gold in a realm most moviemakers have given up on ... no, not surprised at all <<< Yeah, besides LONE RANGER I think they've got a few other western-themed things in development. They're all over the place now - mostly developing public-domain stuff or projects that would reinvent their older properties, JUNGLE CRUISE most notable. And Bruckheimer is definitely involved in a few of those.
