Poll of the Day > Disney's Hercules getting a remake

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Wanded
04/30/20 6:35:16 PM
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What?

You thought Disney would spare anyone? nah they coming for all our childhoods

Russo brothers are the producers

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Mead
04/30/20 6:36:38 PM
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okay

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keyblader1985
04/30/20 6:42:18 PM
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Get Kevin Sorbo to play Zeus

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PK_Spam
04/30/20 6:46:59 PM
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I cant wait for them to make the good parts of the movie bad, and the bad parts of the movie worse! I wonder what theyre gonna do to make Hercules more #feminist.

will they sap the personality out of Meg the same way they did with Belle? or will they pull a dumbo and do a #STEMgirl thing that has absolutely no impact on the plot even though it shouldve at least contributed something.

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Zareth
04/30/20 6:48:05 PM
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Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil.

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Wanded
04/30/20 6:55:30 PM
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Zareth posted...
Is it Live Action?
yeah

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KJ StErOiDs
04/30/20 7:00:13 PM
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*raises glass*

Here's to hoping it's a good remake!

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FrozenBananas
04/30/20 7:04:36 PM
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Zareth posted...
Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil.

sounds awesome

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Lorthremar
04/30/20 7:26:42 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Remakes dont change the past. Childhoods are in no way impacted by this.
yeah. it's so fucking obnoxious when people complain "oh they're ruining my childhood with this." don't watch it then. go watch your original. it's such a simple solution.

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rexcrk
04/30/20 7:38:26 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Remakes dont change the past. Childhoods are in no way impacted by this.
T H I S

Ive always hated the this ruined my childhood :c crap. Its such a lazy way to complain about something and it doesnt even make sense.

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Blightzkrieg
04/30/20 7:39:30 PM
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Is anybody seriously bothered by Hercules of all things getting a remake

If anything you gotta wonder why waste the money

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Smarkil
04/30/20 7:54:55 PM
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they should get rid of the good songs so that it sucks like mulan

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joemodda
05/01/20 5:34:08 AM
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I bet the ancient Greeks were rolling in their graves for having their childhood ruined when Disney released Hercules

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JixHedgehog
05/01/20 6:46:15 AM
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Probably one (if only) Disney movie I really liked.
My brother convinced me it wasn't the usual Disney BS and got me to watch it

keyblader1985 posted...
Get Kevin Sorbo to play Zeus

Holy..! Yes YES!


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b_hamnite
05/01/20 6:58:56 AM
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From "zero" to "please, no" in no time flat.

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Cranie
05/01/20 7:06:30 AM
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They will never be able to match Hades from the original..
https://i.imgur.com/SWzmsBF.gif

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MichaelS91
05/01/20 9:06:00 AM
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Get the feeling james woods won't be playing hades

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FatalAccident
05/01/20 9:40:05 AM
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keyblader1985 posted...
Get Kevin Sorbo to play Zeus
I like this

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FatalAccident
05/01/20 9:41:00 AM
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MichaelS91 posted...
Get the feeling james woods won't be playing hades
He should

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OmegaM
05/01/20 10:26:52 AM
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joemodda posted...
I bet the ancient Greeks were rolling in their graves for having their childhood ruined when Disney released Hercules
It seems that present-day Greeks didn't like the movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(1997_film)#Controversy
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Veedrock-
05/01/20 10:28:27 AM
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I bet they don't even cast a real demigod as Hercules.

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streamofthesky
05/01/20 10:35:18 AM
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Ugh, they ruined Aladdin, and now they're gonna ruin my favorite Disney movie

Russo Bros. are good, but the people in charge at Disney will probably force them to include/change a bunch of crap, so it's only a small comfort.
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Zeus
05/01/20 1:59:18 PM
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Cautiously optimistic... although they'll probably make Hercules Chinese, Megara Mexican, and have Hades played by Whoopi Goldberg.

keyblader1985 posted...
Get Kevin Sorbo to play Zeus

I could dig it.

Blightzkrieg posted...
Is anybody seriously bothered by Hercules of all things getting a remake

If anything you gotta wonder why waste the money

Better than Mulan.


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Metalsonic66
05/01/20 2:42:12 PM
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Hercules is my favorite Disney movie and I don't know how to feel about this

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adjl
05/01/20 2:42:32 PM
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Zareth posted...
Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil.

This is my only demand. They can do whatever else they want, but if Danny DeVito isn't Phil, it's trash.

Zeus posted...
Better than Mulan.

Mulan, at least, there's a lot of room to make an interesting movie by staying more true to the original story than they did with the animated one. Dunno if they've succeeded or not, since obviously its release has been pushed back, but I'm okay with cutting out the more fantastic bits of the animated one for the sake of telling a less fantastic story. I can, after all, watch the animated version any time if that's what I want. A remake doesn't have to be a frame-for-frame copy of the original (arguably, it shouldn't, especially in a world where the original is easily attainable).

Hercules, on the other hand, is a story that's already been done more seriously many other times, and pretty much the only reason the animated Disney version is worth watching is because of how silly and fantastic it is (to be clear, I do enjoy it quite a bit). That silliness is also going to be very difficult to emulate in live action even if they do try for a frame-for-frame remake, so I'm really not sure what they're hoping to accomplish here. I don't have particularly high hopes.

Zeus posted...
My biggest problem was that silly forced feminist anthem they created for Jasmine that so hilariously out of place that I couldn't stop laughing the whole time...

I'm fine with giving Jasmine a bigger role, particularly since class mobility and defying social/cultural expectations are such central themes to Aladdin's story and there was plenty of room to expand on Jasmine's role in all of that, but her song was indeed painfully hamfisted and so musically inconsistent that I was left wondering if Disney had forgotten how to write scores for musicals that aren't Frozen. The movie could have done without that, or at least with a subtler, stylistically-consistent alternative.

Zeus posted...
that and some of the song & dance numbers felt more Bollywood than Arabic.

What bothered me was how they kept accelerating the video playback rate to keep up with the music. There were several points where the framerate obviously changed because the video was faster than the dancers they hired could dance, which was just sloppy.

Zeus posted...
Plus nobody was a particularly good singer, but that's kind of a running theme with the LA remakes.

They weren't bad, per se, but they weren't a great stylistic match. I liked Will Smith's version of Friend Like Me well enough, since he was able to put his own spin on that and adjust it to his strengths, but Arabian Nights wasn't good. Similarly, Jasmine's actress did a reasonable job with the song they wrote for Jasmine, since that seemed to play to her strengths, but her style was very out of place in A Whole New World (particularly where it didn't match the way Aladdin was singing). It seemed to me that the people in charge of hiring for those roles didn't take any input from the songwriters, since everyone was just more pop-ish than was suitable for the movie (which is completely consistent with executive meddling).

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Metalsonic66
05/01/20 2:46:34 PM
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adjl posted...
Mulan, at least, there's a lot of room to make an interesting movie by staying more true to the original story than they did with the animated one. Dunno if they've succeeded or not, since obviously its release has been pushed back, but I'm okay with cutting out the more fantastic bits of the animated one for the sake of telling a less fantastic story. I can, after all, watch the animated version any time if that's what I want. A remake doesn't have to be a frame-for-frame copy of the original (arguably, it shouldn't, especially in a world where the original is easily attainable).
Is it really less fantastical though? They just replaced one silly element for another one

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wwinterj25
05/01/20 2:50:56 PM
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MichaelS91 posted...
Get the feeling james woods won't be playing hades
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adjl
05/01/20 2:53:24 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Is it really less fantastical though? They just replaced one silly element for another one

*Shrug* We'll have to see. The concept makes sense to me, but that doesn't mean the execution won't fall flat.

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Zeus
05/01/20 3:12:48 PM
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It also occurs to me that if they did a live-action Moana, they could go with the VA for Moana herself since she's still young enough for the role... although the character likeness would be weak. (Then they could go with one of the Rock's heavier relatives for Maui.)

adjl posted...
Hercules, on the other hand, is a story that's already been done more seriously many other times, and pretty much the only reason the animated Disney version is worth watching is because of how silly and fantastic it is (to be clear, I do enjoy it quite a bit). That silliness is also going to be very difficult to emulate in live action even if they do try for a frame-for-frame remake, so I'm really not sure what they're hoping to accomplish here. I don't have particularly high hopes.

Hercules has been done so many times precisely because there's a lot to work with. And, quite honestly, I'd love to see another "live-action" hydra.

adjl posted...
Mulan, at least, there's a lot of room to make an interesting movie by staying more true to the original story than they did with the animated one. Dunno if they've succeeded or not, since obviously its release has been pushed back, but I'm okay with cutting out the more fantastic bits of the animated one for the sake of telling a less fantastic story. I can, after all, watch the animated version any time if that's what I want. A remake doesn't have to be a frame-for-frame copy of the original (arguably, it shouldn't, especially in a world where the original is easily attainable).

Uh, doesn't it have a witch now? >_> The only "magic" from the original was the dragon, which was just a tiny fantastical element rather than full-on magic.

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keyblader1985
05/01/20 3:27:35 PM
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Zeus posted...
As far as Disney remakes go, I thought it was okay. My biggest problem was that silly forced feminist anthem they created for Jasmine that so hilariously out of place that I couldn't stop laughing the whole time...
Even in the animated movie Jasmine was all about being more than some shut-in princess (sneaking out of the palace, "I am not some prize to be won," etc.). It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to give her a feminist slant.

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Zeus
05/01/20 3:36:11 PM
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keyblader1985 posted...
Even in the animated movie Jasmine was all about being more than some shut-in princess (sneaking out of the palace, "I am not some prize to be won," etc.). It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to give her a feminist slant.

The issue isn't the feminist slant, it's the ridiculously forced song played at a ludicrously stupid time and as a reaction to a villain's order which had less to do with her status as a woman than it did with his status as a villain. It wasn't a matter of "Be quiet because you're a woman and your voice doesn't matter," it was "Be quiet because I'm taking over right now." (iirc it was right when he was locking the Sultan and Jasmine up.)

On the flipside, if they *had* to insert a feminist anthem, there were a lot of places where it might actually make sense -- sneaking out to see the city when she could have sang about freedom, after abandoning a suitor when she could have complained about her role in society, etc.

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Yellow
05/01/20 3:44:27 PM
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It's going to try to be edgy piece of art while being too silly to take seriously like every other live action Disney movie.

Just crank up the contrast and call it a day it'll make money who gives a fuck.

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Krazy_Kirby
05/01/20 8:32:14 PM
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are they going to show how zeus kidnapped/raped/transformed into animals to sleep with all the mortal women?
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Zeus
05/02/20 2:30:48 AM
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https://i.imgur.com/0tlYMsb.gif

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zebatov
05/02/20 2:53:09 AM
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Disney sucks.

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finalfaw
05/02/20 3:45:41 AM
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rexcrk posted...
T H I S

Ive always hated the this ruined my childhood :c crap. Its such a lazy way to complain about something and it doesnt even make sense.

Imagine your mother made you cookies when you were a kid, they were the best cookies in the world, then years later you go to visit her, and she makes you cookies, she makes them the same way, but, uses different, less tasty ingredients, that would stain your memory of those cookies.

Same thing, it's not so much these movies are ruining their childhood, more staining the memory of their childhood.

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DiduXD
05/02/20 3:47:50 AM
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Glad its not Oliver and Company (seriously, when's the last time Disney has acknowledged that film existed anyway? Oh well, my personal favorite of the Disney films).
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finalfaw
05/02/20 5:24:32 AM
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@DiduXD

Oliver & Company is my all time favourite, "Why Should I worry?" is catchy as hell.

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ScritchOwl
05/02/20 8:46:35 AM
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Just wait they will make a robin hood remake that will make cats look like avatar especially when the butthole cut is released

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC
05/02/20 10:06:55 AM
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Zareth posted...
Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil.
Hell to the yes.

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DiduXD
05/02/20 2:11:02 PM
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finalfaw posted...
DiduXD

Oliver & Company is my all time favourite, "Why Should I worry?" is catchy as hell.

Its mine as well and why I think that film is the best.
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ClarkDuke
05/02/20 3:23:11 PM
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keyblader1985 posted...
Even in the animated movie Jasmine was all about being more than some shut-in princess (sneaking out of the palace, "I am not some prize to be won," etc.). It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to give her a feminist slant.
is it any wonder a catch like, zeus of all people a man in his later years, and on unemployment, is single, ok?

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Zeus
05/02/20 6:40:07 PM
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PyroBlade1985 posted...
$5 says they get Warwick Davis.

When Peter Dinklage is available? Not that they have to go with anybody that short for the role anyway, they just need somebody shorter than average.... and Danny Devito is 4'10"

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DirtBasedSoap
05/02/20 6:43:53 PM
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ClarkDuke posted...
is it any wonder a catch like, zeus of all people a man in his later years, and on unemployment, is single, ok?
truly shocking

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finalfaw
05/02/20 6:43:56 PM
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@DiduXD

Jonathan Young did a cover of that song, it's pretty good.

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