by Nathaniel R
Disney still has lots of animated features to get through before they've made animated or live-action remakes or spinoffs of each of 'em. Word is they're now developing Hercules (1997) but then they're developing lots of these things to follow Mulan (2020) and Cruella (2021) into movie theaters.
Hopefully Hercules Redux gets some new songs because there aren't a lot as we recall and there's only so much of a score you can build from "Go the Distance". This will live or die based on how funny it is so we hope they lean heavily into its more camp aspects: bodybuilder lead, five muses, flamboyant villain.
How would you cast this thing? More after the jump...
Hercules (young, buff, ginger handsome jock type)
Megara (young, sarcastic, brunette screwball heroine type)
Hades (older fast-talking god of the underworld)
The 5 Muses Callipe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Clio (great singing voices, comic timing, at least one full figured, the others statuesque)
DISNEY'S ANIMATED FEATURES. WHICH WILL BE REMADE?
Key:
RED: Tough to imagine a remake/spinoff
GREEN: Already remade/spunoff
BLUE: Rumored or actually in some stage of development
BLACK: Who knows. Depends on if the box office returns begin to wane
1930s
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
1940s
Pinocchio (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Dumbo (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Saludos Amigos (1943)
The Three Caballeros (1945)
Make Mine Music (1946)
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Melody Time (1948)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949)
1950s
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Peter Pan (1953)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
1960s
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The Jungle Book (1967)
1970s
The Aristocats (1970)
Robin Hood (1973)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The Rescuers (1977)
1980s
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Oliver & Company (1988)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
1990s
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Beauty and the Beast(1991)
Aladdin (1992)
The Lion King (1994)
Pocahontas (1995)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Hercules (1997)
Mulan (1998)
Tarzan (1999)
2000s
Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Dinosaur (2000)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Brother Bear (2003)
Home on the Range (2004)
Chicken Little (2005)
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Bolt (2008)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
2010s
Tangled (2010)
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Wreck it Ralph (2012)
Frozen (2013)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Zootopia (2016)
Moana (2016)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Frozen 2 (2019)