Musicals that could be animated... — Page 2

My understanding was that Elton John was interested in working with Disney on turning Aida into a musical but didn't want to just do another animated film. So, they went the stage musical route instead.

I think A Year with Frog and Toad would work really well as an animated musical. Same with Honk.

Amour could work, as well. It would eliminate the technical concerns of getting Dusoleil through the walls and they could go very stylized with the animation.

Updated On: 12/27/13 at 03:05 PM

Yeah, why isn't HONK a animated movie yet? I can picture Disney or Universal buy the rights and do it

Oh, and Seussical would be perfect as a animated movie!

Sunday In the Park With Dots

By the way, I can just see everyone's heads exploding when their favorite musical is gutted and turned into a five-song "cartoon" score, and furry animals are added for no reason other than to sell toy likenesses.

Have fun with that!

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Well, not only was Aida going to be a Disney Animated movie, but also....

Andra McDonald was offered to voice her! So disappointing!

http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20Movies/Aida/

I think,
The Drowsy Chaperone, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein and if wasn't so painful to sit through Wonderland could be pretty good if it was animated also.

Updated On: 1/3/14 at 11:36 AM

^Sorry, just a misspell.

Re-reading my earlier post in this thread... looks like Cats and Joseph are getting another shot at the big-time, Cats as an animated feature, so I was pretty on target.

For my next trick... Sweeney Todd as an animated feature.

No, stop it. Stop yelling. They can hear you in Uruguay! Let me explain.

First of all, being an animated feature, you expect all the tropes that Tim Burton didn't think he could touch like, oh I dunno, ENSEMBLE SINGING; it's just assumed that it's what works. Script-wise, you could get away with something closer to Hugh Wheeler, maybe lightly blotted a la the concert version. And I picture it animated not like a Disney or DreamWorks feature. This one wouldn't play your standard wide-release cinema. This would be darker, maybe even an art-house flick. I'm thinking a style of animation that replicates what Eddie Campbell did in pen and ink with the graphic novel From Hell. Dark, fearsomely complex, and perhaps the most meticulously researched drawings I've ever seen.

Examples at the links below:

http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/search/label/From%20Hell
http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/search/label/From%20hell%20scripts-1
http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/search/label/From%20hell%20scripts-2
http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/search/label/alan%20moore
http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/search/label/Alan%20Moore%27s%20London

The only change I would make from the From Hell aesthetic is injecting two specific points of color. One, every time Sweeney slashes a throat, the blood flows a lurid red, standing out against its black-and-white surroundings. (It achieves the same thing Burton wanted without re-painting the walls of the barber shop. Less is more.)

Second, when Mrs. Lovett is thrown into the fire, we see all the intensity of that fire in searing color: the red, orange, yellow, and hints of the darker colors of fire that are not easily seen by our eyes and register as white hot (like blue, indigo, and violet).

The reason why these are the only two elements of color we see? Well, the symbolism should be pretty obvious, so I'll leave it to you guys to tease out. Oh, and before I forget... as a sop to qolbinau, Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Lovett. (There, you happy? :P)

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Updated On: 1/4/14 at 08:37 AM