Deadline reports that Disney has plans to remake the 1977 live action/animated movie Pete's Dragon
It genuinely pains me to think, that some of you out there may not even know this classic Disney film, that it was before your time / after your time / you just missed it due to the sheer number of Disney films on offer. Pete's Dragon was the story of a young orphan boy running from his abusive adoptive parents with his magical dragon Elliot. It was one of the many live action/animation movies that Disney released around this time (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins) and as usual for the time was a very musical movie.
Deadline has reported that Disney are having David Lowery and his writing partner Toby Halbrooks pen the screenplay for the remake, which is not going to be a musical. At this stage Lowery is also set to direct the remake, having directed much grittier/real movies and shorts in the past.
I have pretty high hopes surprisingly for this movie, as long as the premise of the film doesn't change too much and it maintains the sense of magic that the original had it should be a blast. We can only hope that the recent success of Oz the Great and Powerful will encourage Lowery and Halbrooks to mimic it's innocent/childish humour and magical visuals.
-Welsh 20/03/13
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