Sarah Polley backstage with the Oscar® for Adapted Screenplay in the course of the dwell ABC telecast of the ninety fifth Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
What do you do whenever you’re an indie darling who has just lately gained an Oscar to your newest, critically-praised drama? If you’re Sarah Polley, you settle for a telephone name from Disney asking when you’d wish to make one in every of its animated-to-live-action motion pictures.
At least, in keeping with Deadline’s story, which is reporting that Polley is within the early phases of creating a deal to deal with ‘Bambi’ for the studio.
“A great love story.”
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Who is author/director Sarah Polley?
Director Sarah Polley on the set of her movie ‘Women Talking,’ an Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit score: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Polley is a considerably shocking alternative for an enormous Disney film, provided that the filmmaker, who bought her begin as an actor from a younger age, is usually recognized for producing documentaries and making the delicate dramatic likes of ‘Away from Her’ and ‘Women Talking’, the latter of which gained her the Best Adapted Screenplay trophy at this yr’s Academy Awards.
Related Article: Movie Review: ‘Women Talking’
What’s the story of ‘Bambi’?
Walt Disney Productions’ 1942 ‘Bambi.’
Adapted from Felix Salten’s 1923 novel ‘Bambi, a Life in the Woods’, the unique movie, launched by RKO Radio Pictures in 1942, grew to become simply the fifth animated characteristic ever to emerge from Disney’s studios.
It’s the coming-of-age story of the title character, the younger deer struck by tragedy who counts amongst his woodland friends the rabbit Thumper and a skunk named Flower.
And famously, it helped to create the template for Disney film characters shedding mother and father, because the dying of Bambi’s mom nonetheless resonates (and causes tears) to at the present time.
Disney, which has seen success turning its animated output into live-action (or within the case of 2019’s ‘The Lion King’ remake, photorealistic CGI), is ploughing forward on extra of the flicks –– ‘The Little Mermaid’ is doing respectable business on the field workplace proper now and a brand new ‘Moana’ is on the right track to land in theaters on June twenty seventh, 2025, starring Dwayne Johnson, who will reprise his function as demi-god Maui.
Dwayne Johnson pronounces live-action ‘Moana.’ Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.
The studio has had ‘Bambi’ in its crosshairs since at the least 2020, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet (‘Captain Marvel’) and Lindsey Beer (‘Chaos Walking’) on board again then to put in writing the script and Chris and Paul Weitz producing the movie.
Since then, the Weitz brothers are nonetheless hooked up to supply however the scriptwriting duties have moved on to Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, who co-wrote Mr. Rogers drama ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’, however in all probability extra pertinently have Disney expertise engaged on ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’. Disney’s trying to maintain the music degree up too, as nation star Kacey Musgraves is reportedly offering the tunes.
And Polley may find yourself an impressed option to sort out one in every of these motion pictures: in any case, fellow revered indie director David Lowery (of ‘A Ghost Story’ and ‘The Green Knight’) has introduced fashion and magic to each of his Disney efforts, ‘Pete’s Dragon’ and this yr’s ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’.
Plus, even having large film expertise isn’t any assure of success, as anybody who noticed Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Pinocchio’ misfire can attest.
Walt Disney Productions’ 1942 ‘Bambi.’
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