Night on Bald Mountain

[Snow Queen]

Disney is developing a movie based on the iconic “Night on Bald Mountain” closing sequence from the 1940 animated pic “Fantasia” for its latest live-action adaptation.

Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless will write the screenplay and executive produce the movie, which is still in early development.

The classic animated film “Fantasia” was comprised of eight musical segments, including “Night on Bald Mountain,” which centered on a winged creature that raised the dead.

Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky created the music in 1867, and it was arranged by Leopold Stokowski for the film. The sequence was animated by Vadimir Tytla and had one of the longest shots ever produced in a multi-plane camera.

This will be the studio’s latest live-action reimagining of an animated hit. Disney has already struck box office gold with “Alice in Wonderland,” whose sequel “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is slated for 2016, “Maleficent” and “Cinderella.” Live-action versions of “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Emma Watson, “The Jungle Book,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo,” “Winnie the Pooh,” and “Tinker Bell,” with Reese Witherspoon, are all in the works.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/disney-developing-fantasia-sequence-into-live-action-movie-1201511401/

I have been asking for this for years. t:

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'm in.

 

[Broseph44]

Oh hell to the yes. That was one of my favorite segments in Fantasia.

 

[Broseph44]

Thank you Snow Queen now I really want to watch Fantasia again haha.

 

[SuperBatman]

Oh hell to the yes. That was one of my favorite segments in Fantasia.

Most Likely a lot of people's favorite Segments in Fantasia. This will be great looking forward to it.

 

[Drizzle]

Now here's an interesting concept...

 

[Lighthouse]

"From the writers of Dracula Untold"

No thanks.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Did not see that. Damnit.

 

[Drizzle]

"From the writers of Dracula Untold"

No thanks.

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[Octoberist]

"From the writers of Dracula Untold"

No thanks.

Nasty.

 

[Sawyer]

Eh, it's Hollywood. There will be a s***ton of rewrites along the way.

So it'll either get slightly better or much, much worse.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'm in!

 

[terry78]

Chernabog is not to be ****ed with. Ya heard?

 

[green]

Eh, last time Disney attempted to pillage Fantasia we got the masterpiece The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Skeptical.

 

[Boom]

They had me right up to "Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless."

 

[CGHulk]

Disney will probably make Chernabog the good guy like they did with the character Maleficent!

Those mean town's people. The head of it all is a meanie cat within the town that made him a demon, before the movie ends they get rid of the bad guy and Chernabog is restored to a human and he is embraced by the town's people with him leading them down the street arm in arm in rejoice. The End!

 

[CaptainWagner]

Thrilled by the concept, but those writers have me more than a bit worried...

 

[SuperFerret]

Disney, heed my words: Remember Saturday Night Live. Remember that longer does not equal better.

 

[Drizzle]

Disney, heed my words: Remember Saturday Night Live. Remember that longer does not equal better.

Except when it comes to these guys:

Oh, and these guys too:

Even District 9 was based off a short film. It's possible to stretch out a short into a full-length feature and make it work. Night on Bald Mountain could be amazing....with the right team. We'll have to see how it turns out.