Disney+ developing Once on this Island film adaptation — Page 2

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "I actually heard this was in the whispers last year and I was wondering if this was still happening.

Alex Newell reprising Azula. Good night."

I’d rather any other member of that cast reprise their role before Newell.

JBroadway said: "Exciting news! I do kind of wish it could be animated though. I think that could be really cool, if the style is done right."

Me, too! Since they've decided not to go the 'Hamilton' route, an animated version would be SOOOO perfect in creating a version that's significantly different from the staged production. ...and the story itself fits into the category of fairy tale/folklore so an animated version makes complete sense to me.

RE: an animation style, I like to watch the Oscar-nominated entries for animated shorts every year. The creativity is always so impressive. I'm not nearly as inventive, or creative as the Oscar nominees, but my first thought is that a watercolor style would seem very appropriate... ?

Such fantastic news. And what a fantastic team working on it. Jocelyn Bioh is perfect for this. And while I'm unfamiliar with the director, it's no small think that is should be an African woman. I didn't see her film, Rafiki, but I want to go back and do so.

I hope Disney+ adds to the content-hungry machine that Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have created and it results in more stage to streaming projects!

Hot Pants said: "I particularly didn’t care for a report that he was breaking character before the show to argue with an ensemble member, who thankfully tried their best to limit the fight and maintain character."

How can one break character before a show?

HogansHero said: "Hot Pants said: "I particularly didn’t care for a report that he was breaking character before the show to argue with an ensemble member, who thankfully tried their best to limit the fight and maintain character."

How can one break character before a show?"

The cast was onstage as part of the pre-show.

blaxx said: "The cast was onstage as part of the pre-show."

ok. to me that was a part of the show.

If I could suggest one obscure cameo for this film, it wouldn't be any Broadway stars; I'd love to see Ron and Natalie Daise as islanders or as Tonton and Euralie. Their television show "Gullah Gullah Island" introduced Afro-Caribbean culture to (mainly suburban white middle class) children in the 1990s, and I have to think that the revival of "Once on This Island" resonated so much with people my age who didn't know the show before in part because the music and warm, storytelling vibe was so familiar to us from "Gullah Gullah Island" three decades ago.

Chloe. Bailey. (the left)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brixVlzc2y4

I'm okay with changing things for the movie, but I really hope that they don't try to give it a happy ending.

I definitely think they can give the story a better resolution and a less problematic narrative while keeping the original feeling intact. I have a few ideas of how. Maybe Ti Moune sees Andrea and makes the decision to leave? Bioh is a wonderful playwright and I have no doubt she will be able to appease fans of the musical and others who might not have been able to overlook its more problematic components.

No. Changing the ending is a deal breaker. The tragic ending is what MAKES this musical unique. Not all fairy tales need have happy endings. In fact, many don't. And even the ones that do are pretty dark. The parallels to Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid in the musical cannot be ignored or denied. I loved having this musical that stays true to that original ending as Anderson wrote it right down to the heroine being blessed in death with a higher plane of existence. Ti Moune is not just turned into a tree, she is transformed into a form that allows her to watch over the next generation and unite them in the way she and Daniel were denied. She blesses them. She is not just a tree, she is a spirit within the tree. She lives on even after her death as a spirit and as a story.

Disney has already changed the ending of the tale once, and as I feared looks like they might doing it again. And not only that but this musical is directly based on a book and the ending is from the book as well. So that's ****ting on the source material on TWO levels. The book and the fairy tale the book is inspired by.

Now I would be okay with more minor changes to the ending that makes Daniel less of a jerk that used her the whole time. I already thought that the revival did a decent job fixing his character to make him more compassionate and regretful. Going a little further with it would be okay. Maybe make him more of a fighter for them as a pair. Maybe make it that he has already chosen Ti Moune and then TWIST catches her with the knife about to kill him. That would be interesting, that Papa Ge looses the bet but wins because him ordering her to kill Daniel and the aftermath results in the pair falling apart for good. And while we are at it, let's make Andrea more sympathetic as well. She's forced into the marriage just as much as he is. I always thought it might be interesting to see Andrea be interested in someone else as well but ultimately they both give up their hearts for their family's desires. Some nameless waiter that she shares some longing glances with that suggests they have feelings. She is just far more subtle about her personal affairs then Daniel is. But for the love of god if the movie musical ends in a happy ending where Daniel picks Ti Moune, no.