Possibly not - given that the Sebastian/Clarence (for that was originally his name) I have in my head doesn't really act like Cogsworth, being much more sarcastic and temperamental - he also has a stupid sidekick voiced by Tony Robinson (guess the reference).
I'll look these over, thanks.Will this be animated or live action? If animated I would love to see in Ralph Bakshi's animated style even if he never had an animation studio for Disney to buy ITTL.
Here is a list of unfinished Jim Henson Productions projects that could get finished ITTL:
The Seven Deadly Sins (film)
The Seven Deadly Sins was a screenplay written by Anthony Minghella, which was in pre-production by Jim Henson Productions for ten years and never produced. The plot involved a man suffering a spiritual crisis. Faced with losing his wife and children to another man, the protagonist attempts...muppet.fandom.com
The Pig of the Nineties
The Pig of the Nineties is a marketing campaign that was proposed by The Jim Henson Company in 1990, as a way to reinvigorate Miss Piggy's popularity. A document from the Henson Company was reprinted in MuppetZine #13 in the summer of 1995, including some concept art and an outline of events...
Into the Woods
For the Dinosaurs episode, see Episode 413: Into the Woods. The film version of Stephen Sondheim's 1987 Broadway show Into the Woods (combining elements from several fairy tales with a new throughline) was optioned in 1993. The project went through years of pre-production. Originally, the film...
The Italian Film
The Italian Film was the working title of a non-puppet theatrical film developed by Jim Henson around 1989. Duncan Kenworthy discussed the project in a 1989 interview with Television/Radio Age magazine: "We are stretching the definition of what constitutes a Jim Henson project," observes Henson...
Campfire Songs
Campfire Songs was a script for an unrealized Muppet home video by The Jim Henson Company. The first draft was written by Jim Lewis in August 1990. The plot centers around camp counselor Scooter taking a group of woodland animals on a bus to go camping. Characters include Robin the Frog; Ricky...https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Untitled_Muppet_Halloween_Specials (1991)
Pet Home Video
Pet Home Video was a concept Jim Henson had in the late-1980s for a collection of 12-minute videos centered on pets. Henson wrote a memo about the series, stating
Big Bird Goes to Russia
Big Bird Goes to Russia was a proposed television special that would have seen Big Bird traveling to the Soviet Union. The program would have aired on television in the US, while producers hoped to also broadcast in the Soviet Union. Following the success of Big Bird in China, producers at...
Inside John
Inside John was a proposed concept for a 30-minute television special that could air as the second-half of an episode of The Jim Henson Hour. The special was another variation on Jim Henson's Limbo concept. The plot would focus on the various parts of a seventeen-year-old boy's brain as it tries...
Little Mermaid's Island
Little Mermaid's Island was a project proposed by Jim Henson in 1990, during talks with The Walt Disney Company, as a spin-off of Disney's animated film The Little Mermaid. Two episodes were shot, but never aired: "Sebastian's Birthday" and "Tell the Truth." It was intended as a daily series to...
Muppet High
Muppet High was a planned television series that was never produced. The series was mentioned as having been in the works at The Jim Henson Company in 1990, in the months before Jim Henson's death. Muppet High was to depict the Muppets as 1950s high school students. A toy company, Presents...
W.I.L.D.
A series referred to as The Environmental Show by the press, but called W.I.L.D. during production, was proposed for the Disney Channel in 1990 with the intentions of educating young people about animals and the environment. Set in a TV station, anchor Ponce D. Lion and iguana cohost Netty would...https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Muppetville_(concept) (This could become a WDW gate)
The Great Gonzo's Pandemonium Pizza Parlor
The Great Gonzo's Pandemonium Pizza Parlor is an abandoned concept for a Muppet-themed restaurant for Disney-MGM Studios in Walt Disney World. The concept was to create a restaurant run by Gonzo and Rizzo. Part of the original concept was to have animatronic Muppet rats deliver pizza to the...
All the descriptions for how they're doing the castle comes from the OTL Sleeping Beauty's Castle in Paris. Pretty much the same type of attention to detail is happening here, but with a few profound changes.
Yea Roy Disney hated that building iOTL, at least according to Disney War, and it became symbolic to Roy of Eisner's attempts to supplant Walt with himself and Walt's vision with his own.Oh what are the Team Disney buildings that Geekhis is talking about...
*looks them up*
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I can see why Roy would be horrified to see these buildings. Good call to have the old ones restored and modernized.
Both films are still in Production Hell as it were, like with The Snow Queen and Don Quixote.
I see Disney adapting ''Tiny the Alligator'' and Homer's Odyssey in their place.
I learnt about the former yesterday. There's also a picture book adaptation about a whale in San Francisco, based off a real life event.
To be honest, I doubt both of these are going to be adapted for WDSS, since they're obscure and not that critically acclaimed compared to the media that they have released like Maus or Grave of the Fireflies. I generally think it would be a huge waste if Disney adapted them compared to actual mainstream sci-fi/dystopia such as The Time Machine, Brave New World, or 1984 and cult classic hits like Neuromancer.
Michael Eisner's absence is not only etched in Disney's filmography, but also in physical form as well with the Studios. I guess we'll see even more of the effects that the Disney Triumvirate + Roy will have on the company in the future, which seems to be very positive relative to OTL.
Really?! Wow, it's that bad.
Disney is better off not making concessions to the Anarchists/Communists. They're a small, albeit vocal minority, compared to the majority of the Spanish people, who would be fairly ecstatic about a Spanish Disneyland. Plus, their objective is to kick Disney off from Spain, so no matter what they do to appease them, they won't budge. If it was something like representatives from Galicia or the Basque Country that were protesting then they would make concessions to assuage them but not the commies.
We know that Lee is starring as DEATH. That's a given. But who should we cast as the other main characters?
Something ant and the grasshopper like?
For a suggestion like this, why not have the Doozers from Waggle Rock as the workers? Pairing a classic Disney character with a new age Muppet creation worked impeccably well for Gonzo and Goofy's Galactic Golf, as well as having Mickey and Kermit as a comedic duo of sorts in various adventures. Or is that Goofy and Gonzo's Galactic Golf?
I did not want to respond to this, but I would like to iterate that Disney will most likely NOT make a short or ad based on this kind of thinking. The only surefire event that would happen is Y2K, and I doubt Jim and Disney is going to spend money on something steeped in conspiracy theories and frankly insane doomsday prepper hysteria. If something like COVID happens in the U.S., it happens, and Disney will react accordingly to keep up with the current standards being put out by the CDC or help with vaccination efforts, but I really don't like when people want some kind of cultural change ITTL because of current politics.
Sure, why not?
This honestly sounds like good content for Sunset Puppetry instead when Y2K comes around.
Yes, this is the most likely approach to what Disney could do when it comes to this topic. I would love the latter to happen since Disney could make a very positive impact for California and Florida with hurricane/earthquake preparedness.
