Will Colette be just eye candy for boys, or will her as a mascot encourage some marketing to girls?
Going back to Cats for a moment, I thought of another bonus to doing the animated way we've been talking about.
They could show up in other shows. Groweltiger's design could work as an adventurer in Ducktales or Talespin, and Macavity as the criminal mastermind replacing Fat Cat in the Rescue Rangers. Or similar type shows if those exact ones don't happen.
I personally hope that Colette would have a personality outside of the results of her puberty.
So, essentially, if Cats gets made by Disney as an animated feature, certain characters may cross over into The Disney Afternoon? That is, for better or for worse, very interesting!
The trouble with trying to get Cats characters into other roles is that Disney (to the best of my knowledge) wouldn't own the characters. Sure they could do the character designs for animation, but the characters themselves are property of the T.S. Eliot estate, the rights to all the music is Weber's, and the rights to the adaptation belonged to Spielberg who would essentially hire Disney to make a film he had trouble doing at his own studio. Unless part of the deal for making the picture was a transfer of ownership of some sort or 'rights to use' are sorted out [1], Cats is emphatically not part of Disney's stable of animated films. It really is an art piece.
Concerning Colette, I've finally got something worth sharing, I'll try and post before the weekend after I've cleaned up the lines into legibility. Rest assured there's nothing 'eye candy' about either design, although the 'tall' version is foxier (not sorry) than the 'short' version. Both versions have plenty of opportunity for snark and sass.
I see what you did there.
[1] I know nothing of copyright law other than through general osmosis, so take all of that with a grain of salt.
Colette, according to the official Atari bio, is "an outgoing, athletic adveturer who likes sports, exercise, eating healthy, dancing, playing music, and going on advetures with her friends. She's smart, she's sassy, and she's ready to save the day." They'll use her and Bentley (who is quite active despite his body shape) to encurage an "active lifestyle" in their players as something to push back against the inevitable backlash from parents that their kids are playing oo many video games. There'll be no overt effort to sexualize her, but it seems ineviatble that the furry fandom will latch on to her as it were.
As to Cats, probably not going to appear as more than cameos for all the reasons GrahamB stated.
Any chance of making this happen ITTL:
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Converting board games into video games is a time-honoured tradition! Since we've been talking Atari for a bit I fully support GW and Atari signing a licensing deal.
I wonder if an Atari version of Space Hulk can rival X-Com on the PC in this timeline?
Can be done. In fact, if anyone want to make lists and short descriptions of videogame releases?
$37m on a $2m budget? That’s serious bank!
Raining is going to be drowning in offers after this. Hope his next few movies do not suck so it’s not a ‘lighting in a bottle’ or indeed gets him stuck in horror land.
Are ‘smart-slashers’ like the phycological horrors we got OTL? The Blair Witches, or American Physio?
That's a bit better than OTL where F13p5 made $22 million and on par with Freddy III, but nothing super-incredible for a slasher.
A Smart Slasher is a bit of a psychological horror, or uses metatextual techniques and fourth wall breaks (the OTL F13p6 nearly counts), or shows self awareness, or otherwise asks viewers to not just leave their brain at the door. Blair Witch or American Psycho would have fit in as would Evil Dead II, the Scream series, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Cabin in the Woods, or the original Psycho, fo that matter.
EDIT: a lot of the recent "social commentary horror" films like Get Out, Us, or "symbolic" horror like Bird Box or A Quiet Place would fit in too.
Raimi will certainly be heard from again.
That could be an interesting idea, had they had any female slashers yet?
There is the very first Friday, but apart from that, I don't know.
As others have mentioned the original Friday the 13th (Jason's mom), but there's never to my mind been a "Female slasher" in terms of a recurring character. Hmm....
I've actually had an idea for a slasher film where there's a whole team of slashers based on high school student archtypes, and maybe down the road ITTL it or something similar comes here.
Send me a PM if you want or keep the idea for yourself.
Did... you just butterfly away Jason Lives? The only good Friday movie?
For shame man. Losing the Alice Cooper soundtrack alone hurts.
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Well, this is a better Part 5 than OTL, so it balances out, IMO...
Well, you can't win 'em all. Butterflies fly both ways. You won't beleive the things I loved that I'll have to kill. That said, the factors and people that led to Jason Lives are still there, so stay tuned.
I’m very curious what future butterflies might be in store in this story and what might be able to escape being butterflied away. I really, really hope The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast might be able to totally avoid being butterflied away in this story, even if other Disney Renaissance movies like Lion King are likely butterflied away. I think there’s still a way with how things stand for both to still exist.
