once on this island/disney

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 2:26pm

does anyone else think that this would make a truly great disney animated movie... i think that it would be fabulous with the 4 gods in the vein of the greek chorus from hercules and the ancestors from mulan... i think that this show could be so much fun as a movie! anyway, further thoughts?

[Jon]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 2:29pm

Well, since OOTI is based on a novel which was essentially a reworking of THE LITTLE MERMAID, it seems a bit redundant.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 2:31pm

they're different enough... she's not a mermaid, she doesn't have to give up her voice..

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 3:59pm

It could work, but the racial lines might be a little too mature for what Disney likes to do. It would be a shame if they changed the story and didn't focus on that like the original story. So it could potentially work, but I doubt it due the content.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:03pm

well even ahrens and flaherty changed some of the racial lines/lyrics so that the show could be performed by multi-racial companies.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:13pm

True - I'm directing my high school kids in it right now.
But I think if you're going to do a real adaptation like Disney, you do what's originally written. A/F write that unless you have to use the rewrites, they prefer you don't.

[Sporti2005]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:16pm

ti moune doesn't have to give up her voice...but she does have to give up her soul....

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:19pm

Right and giving up your soul to the God of death might not be the Disney way...

[JoMarch]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:40pm

Jason Alexander has been wanting to produce a big screen version of Once on this Island for years. I think it could work really well as a TV movie too...in the tradition of Annie. I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it get that kind of exposure. I just love the show. :)

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 4:43pm

Now that would be awesome. I would love it if they did that. Do you think they would stay with the racial lines or change it up?

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 8:38pm

maybe it can be the next made for tv abc/disney musical? what do you think? that is, if we ever get to see once upon a mattress, which i've given up on.