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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Magic Kingdom Still Has Potential

Jon Favreau's live action edition of The Jungle Book opens in October 2015. After that, he really hopes to begin production on the Magic Kingdom movie that needs to happen so very badly! But there's a light at the end of the tunnel. We can see it now. There is hope. There. Is. Hope. Here is what Favreau said about it:

"I really want to do Magic Kingdom. Part of what’s complicated about it is you’re mixing all of the different lands and characters together but between The Avengers and The Lego Movie, there seems to be a way to do it that doesn’t confuse the audience. Hopefully I’ll get to make that movie with Disney soon. Right now Jungle Book is the thing and hopefully through that partnership it’ll lead to getting the other film done because I think Magic Kingdom is a great idea for a film.The issue is how do you treat characters in one film that are differentiated [in other films]. So if you’re doing a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, how do you differentiate from the pirates in your movie, is that confusing to an audience and does that ruin other franchises that are existing? So I think when the time is right I think I have a strong take that would make that very clear. But again Jungle Book is a priority for them and something they’re very excited about and something I really connected with. Hopefully, through that relationship, Magic Kingdom will become the next thing down the line."

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