WI: Osamu Tezuka and Disney were able to make the Kimba/Leo movie

Still need to give a special thanks to Dame Astentudo in the credits, and at least two percent of the gross to the Luo tribe of Kenya. Otherwise, both Eisner and the Tezuka heirs are no better than George Roy Hill and David S. Ward, who plagiarized The Confidence Man by David Maurer (Not the novel of the same name by Herman Melville) to make The Sting. Or for that matter, "Marvelous" Marvin Hamlisch, who plagiarized Scott Joplin for the soundtrack, which itself was also anachronistic enough to break the immersion, as if using a pure Beatles soundtrack for Super 8 or Stranger Things.
 
Um... Marvin Hamlisch did not plagiarized Scott Joplin his works were in the public domain and he did received credit for it.
Marvin Hamlisch won the Academy Award for adapting the music.
 
And yet, The Really Famous Music Group Managed to hold on to the copyright of "Good Morning to All/Happy Birthday to You" and "I'm Popeye The Sailor Man" until the 2000s, starting even earlier than the registrations for the likes of "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag."

But this is hijacking the thread. In all likelihood, even if no one in Kenya raises a stink, this hypothetical "Jungle Emperor Leo" flick won't get admitted into the official Disney Animated Canon, not even overseas like The Nightmare Before Christmas or The Patchwork Bride. Disney joint ventures, except for cases of self-dealing, never do.
 
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