Fantasy Guy Ritchie Directing Disney's Aladdin

[The Chris]

I feel like the issue is that he still looks like Will Smith. If Will did the mocap but he looked more like original Genie in the face...

I honestly feel the same way. I was shocked by seeing Will's face basically plopped onto a muscular blue body. I mean look at Thanos. He spells Josh Brolin very well but it's perfectly blended into Thanos' design. Serkis as Caesar and Gollum as well. This feels lazy compared to those two in the early stages. And oh my god what did they do to Jafar? Also why does it feel like Aladdin himself is gonna feel underwhelming too? Something about that guy from the few shots we've seen him in feels off

 

[Dark Raven]

Does anyone care about Aladdin as a character at this rate? People seem more interested to see everyone else.

My main interest is seeing how they pull off Princess Jasmine. We've seen a couple of shots of her so far, but I want to see her acting a scene.

 

[Schlosser85]

Aladdin himself was always kind of bland anyway.

 

[Abudefduf]

Any screen shots of Princess Jasmine from the trailer?

Just this one

I forgot that Rajah was in the movie.

 

[Melpardus]

Rajah looks good though; Will Smith's blue genie is the only thing that actually stood out to me as being unpresentable.

The video on Disney's YouTube page is at 14k likes and 9k dislikes.

Bravo Guy Ritchie!

It's just baffling how they could think this looks good. The like to dislike ratio on the trailer is 16K - 12K, I don't think I've ever seen a Disney film that disliked. They must be ****ting bricks right now over the reaction to this. What did they spend on this? $180-200m?

The current like:dislike ratio is 22K:24K...

 

[Mandon Knight]

Always thought putting Ritchie in charge of this was a mix-mash of material to director and trailer to me proves it, why you put some mockney wide-boy upper middle class bozo in to direct a Disney film, I've zero idea.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Street rat running on rooftops is a very Guy Ritchie thing.

 

[-JKR-]

Always thought putting Ritchie in charge of this was a mix-mash of material to director and trailer to me proves it, why you put some mockney wide-boy upper middle class bozo in to direct a Disney film, I've zero idea.

I don't think Guy Ritchie is the problem here, at all.
These movies tend to present these kind of limits by default. "The Jungle Book" was a nice movie, technically well made, but I can't say I'm amazed by any of these live-action remakes, be it "Beauty of the Beast" or "Alice in Wonderland" or "Oz" --- and Tim Burton and Sam Raimi were BOTH incredibly fitting choices for the material they were adapting... but the studio and producers on these movies have a very strict template for these flicks, which I don't think does the filmmakers any favors.
I know that Sam Raimi has had several problems and fights on "Oz", and part of that had to do with the effects and how to visually represent some of the stuff (I'd have to find the source, I think it was a podcast, but these things were mentioned by Raimi himself).

 

[Prison Mike]

Has there been a full length trailer yet? We’ve only had these teasers so far? Doesn’t the movie come out in May?

 

[DarkKnight88]

So far the two most successful of these Disney cartoon to live-action films IMO have been Cinderella and The Jungle Book.

In particular, Jungle Book actually improved on the animated film.

I feel there’s more freedom in adapting the earlier Disney animated classics than the newer ones.

Dumbo probably will turn out to be the better out of the three (Aladdin, Lion King) this year because there’s more you can do with it.

 

[Dark Raven]

Just this one

She looks gorgeous there.

Did they say this was not a musical and would not have the actors singing the musical numbers?

 

[The Guard]

What's been hilarious has been the near universal mockery of this. There is no way Disney could have seen this becoming so hilariously ridiculed across the board. lol.

Eh. I think it was probably going to get mocked regardless. There's no way a blue Will Smith seen to be following Robin Williams' footsteps wasn't going to get made fun of, regardless of how well it was rendered, designed, etc.

That said, they didn't hire Will Smith just to do a voiceover/mocap. They hired him because he's Will Smith. The genie was always going to "look like" Will Smith.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Aladdin is my favourite Disney animated movie of all time so I was disappointed in how cheap it looked from the EW images, now we've got this weak Jafar voice and weird looking Will Smith Genie that does indeed remind me of the Rock's Scorpion King super imposed facial deal in The Mummy Returns.

 

[Dr.]

So far the two most successful of these Disney cartoon to live-action films IMO have been Cinderella and The Jungle Book.

Box office-wise, Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent did better.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I honestly didn't even realise it was Jafar at first.

Same here. I had to re-watch it after I saw comments of people complaining about Jafar. It seems like a huge misfire in casting.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Box office-wise, Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent did better.

I’m talking quality.

 

[Dr.]

I’m talking quality.

I thought Cinderella was fine. But since it was a more-or-less faithful remake of the animated version, it struck me as a tad redundant. Whereas, Maleficent - told from a different point of view - explored some new/interesting themes.

I never saw Alice, so I can't comment on it.

 

[2kt09]

 

[Lencho01]

Can someone explain to me why they didn't just paint Will Smith blue? I mean the guy is already in decent shape as it is.

Probably the same reason Beast was done with CGI in his film instead of makeup, which I feel is that they didn’t feel like going that route.

I doubt Smith was going to put on muscle just for this and Disney is going to want Genie to look as close to their cartoon version as possible. Thus, they use CGI.

 

[harlequinade]

God bless Disney, I have been laughing at this all day

 

[Schlosser85]

Probably the same reason Beast was done with CGI in his film instead of makeup, which I feel is that they didn’t feel like going that route.

I doubt Smith was going to put on muscle just for this and Disney is going to want Genie to look as close to their cartoon version as possible. Thus, they use CGI.

Beast’s CGI was really bad too.

 

[Boom]

Probably the same reason Beast was done with CGI in his film instead of makeup, which I feel is that they didn’t feel like going that route.

I doubt Smith was going to put on muscle just for this and Disney is going to want Genie to look as close to their cartoon version as possible. Thus, they use CGI.

Except that had they just painted Will Smith blue and CGI'ed out his legs some of the time (Genie did have legs at some points in the animated film), he still would've looked like Genie. Just not nearly as cartoonish and over-the-top from an anatomical standpoint.

This seems like creating more work for themselves than they needed to, and the results are borderline creepy.

 

[HammerDown]

I watched the Special Look and i was like "I'm feeling this, this is good...", then i saw the genie...

 

[Legendver2]

I wonder if they just recycled Shere Khan's CGI model for Rajah lol

 

[harlequinade]

I like how there's such a sense of togetherness all over twitter, reddit and everywhere really in collective amusement and fear over this lol