From: jso8015@venus.tamu.edu (OSBORNE, JOHN SCOTT)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: UPCOMING ANIMATED FEATURES
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:45 CST
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Well, I've just discovered the "Wonderful World of the Disney Newsgroup."  The 
last couple of days I have read about 400+ mail letters in this newgroup and it 
is great.  I have always been fascinated with Disney since I was a kid and got a
break to work at WDW in the MK in the Summer of '90 on the WDW College Program. 
I returned the next summer to work there again and worked for one week this past
summer in the park.  I have learned some interesting things from the letters in 
this group.  I have written a lot of papers and have done a lot of research on 
Disney in undergrad and grad school so I hope I can be of help to some. This is
my first post/reply so bear with me as I try to figure this mail thing out. 
For now, I just want to give my add on to these future animations.


In article <93024.201416RSL103@psuvm.psu.edu>, <RSL103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
>For those of you who don't read some of the small print animation magazines,
>the Disney animation agenda looks like this:
> 
>1993:  KING OF THE JUNGLE--I don't know much about this one, except that it's
>supposed to be something like Bambi, but with a lion cub;  Alan Menkin and Tim
>Rice are doing the songs;  Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast) is doing the
>script; and James Earl Jones does a voice.

I believe this has been renamed THE LION KING and is scheduled for release in 
Summer 1994.  It also mentions that Elton John will also provide the music as 
well as Tim Rice. (USA Today 11/4/92)

> 
>1994:  POCAHONTAS--This WILL be a musical version, and it WILL be historically
>accurate, meaning it won't be a happy ending.  At the end, so I've heard,
>Pocahontas stays in Virginia while her lover, Captain John Smith, takes a ship
>back to England.

The same USA Today article says POCAHONTAS will be released in the Fall of '94.
> 



>1995:  FANTASIA REVISITED

The first time I heard of this was in the November 1991 issue of Premiere.  I 
guess it was suppose to be called FANTASIA CONTINUED but I think the title has
since changed to FANTASIA REVISITED.  This article says FR is to have a '96 -
'97 release date but your  source is probably more recent.  Actually, the 
article is a poll to decide which songs the movie should use and also states 
that Disney says it will take the poll suggestions seriously.  I guess we'll 
see.

The results of the poll came out in the February 1992 issue and are as follows:

	1)  RHAPSODY IN BLUE (Gershwin)
	2)  CLAIR DE LUNE (Debussy)
	3)  BOLERO (Ravel)
	4)  FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN (Copland)
	5)  PEER GYNT (Grieg)
	6)  PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (Mussorgsky)
	7)  RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES (Wagner)
	8)  THE PLANETS (Holst)
	9)  EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK (Mozart)
       10)  THE FOUR SEASONS (Vivaldi)

Whether Disney uses these or not is anyone's guess.  I'm really surprised
there weren't any Garth Brooks or Guns N Roses in the list.  Could you imagine.
I wonder what Disney thought the results of the poll would be or if they were 
as surprised as I was?
    	  
> 
>1996:  SWAN LAKE

Wow!  Didn't know this one.  This is why I like this group.

> 
>Also, somewhere in all this they're supposed to insert THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE
>CHRISTMAS, directed by former Disney animator Tim Burton.  I've heard
>conflicting reports as to whether or not that's supposed to be animated.

The USA Today article says this one should be released sometime in 1993.  My 
deductive reasoning tells me around Christmas no doubt.  This is suppos to be a
Claymation-style film.  I wonder how this will turn out and who is involved.  
The Gumby Bunch, maybe. 
> 
>The next feature after SWAN LAKE is tentatively titled SONG OF THE SEA.  No
>word yet as to whether or not a certain redhead or a Jamaican crab will be
>featured.

Wow! Haven't heard of this either.


Hope I was of some help and not just repeating past info.  Hope someone can tell
me about the others.


							Later,
							
							Dippy Dawg
							(aka GOOFY)
																
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