Pete's Dragon remake

[Raph's Girl]

So in this version the dragon befriends a little girl (a Miller's daughter) instead of an orphan boy, Robert Redford plays the role that Mickey Rooney played in the original I guess... this one isn't a musical and apparantly deals with environmental issues.... WTF Disney?!

*hums to the songs from the original*

http://screenrant.com/petes-dragon-r...l-wes-bentley/

[BubblyShell22]

Okay, what the hell are they doing with this remake? They really need to just scrap it. The original was so much better.

*starts humming Brazzle Dazzle Day to herself*

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I preferred Candle On the Water. This is odd, because a week or so ago, I had "We Got a Bill of Sale" stuck in my head at random!

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Wait- how is it PETE'S Dragon if it's a GIRL??!!

[Jephael]

Boy, Disney sure is opening the floodgates with these remakes. First Sleeping Beauty, now Cinderella... Before you know it we'll be getting a live action incarnation of Aladdin with a CGI Genie.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Wouldn't be the same without Robin.....

[DarkLightDragon]

Originally Posted by Jephael

Boy, Disney sure is opening the floodgates with these remakes. First Sleeping Beauty, now Cinderella... Before you know it we'll be getting a live action incarnation of Aladdin with a CGI Genie.

I blame Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, since that too, was also a live-action retelling of their older movies and it did well at the box office. So they're like, "Let's do more of these!"

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Jephael

Before you know it we'll be getting a live action incarnation of Aladdin with a CGI Genie.

Already done. Kid in Aladdin's Palace. Set some 20 years after the 3rd film. Genie was living in the cave for some strange reason (it was never explained), Aladdin had an evil brother (well their father WAS the king of thieves so um...yeah) and a daughter named Sheherezad (who was played by Rhona Mitra).

Course now there's this LA Disney high thing coming up where Aladdin and Jasmine have a son who's friends with Beast and Belle's son.

Im still waiting for Aladdin to pop up in Once Upon A Time considering Jafar, Sultan, and all the Genies (3 of which are brothers) that have shown up.

[TigerClaw]

Official Poster for the Pete's Dragon remake has been release, as well as the Motion Poster.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/fir...-david-lowery/

[Raph's Girl]

Sooo...in this version Mowgli er uh Tarzan er uh Pete is a wild child raised by a dragon???

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Sooo...in this version Mowgli er uh Tarzan er uh Pete is a wild child raised by a dragon???

It looks cool, I watched the original when I was a kid.

[Raph's Girl]

Check out the plot:

"For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete’s descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon."

I guess the Pasamaquadi, Maine setting was too far fetched? Nooo...it's gotta be set in the Pacific Northwest home of sparkly vampires, native american werewolves, sasquatch and now..dragons!

[TigerClaw]

Check out this first image from Pete's Dragon.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/action...-petes-a137603



Elliot looks furry, I thought they were gonna make him close to the original, I guess they wanted a new design for him.

[Powder]

Yikes, not a fan of the design at all...

[Raph's Girl]

Elliot looks like the love child of Falkor and Toothless...

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Elliot looks like the love child of Falkor and Toothless...

Good description.


Just saw this elsewhere and came to see if it had a thread. Ummm... so is Elliot now the missing link between reptiles and mammals? Odd choice for a creature generally considered a mythical reptile. Not entirely hating the furriness, even if strange, but not sure about that somewhat cat/dog-like face - guessing they may have used some Asian dragon designs as slight inspiration?

Why must film makers these days run off in some completely different direction on elements they really don't need to.

[TigerClaw]

Some more info about this here
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/15...ott-first-look

Most people can’t see Elliott the Dragon, but you’re lucky enough to get a special look — and a first one, at that.

After almost 40 years, the Disney classic Pete’s Dragon will roar once more in the studio’s new remake of the 1977 live-action/cartoon hybrid, which follows an orphan named Pete (here played by newcomer Oakes Fegley) and his best friend, a humongous, occasionally visible dragon named Elliott. The trailer for the film — due in theaters August 12 — betrayed but a glimpse at the titular dragon, but EW has an exciting first look at the creature who’ll have the whole forest (and co-stars Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard) buzzing come August.

But, as you might notice, this ain’t the same giant green reptile from your old VHS.

First things first: The original Elliott — he of tubby belly, fire breath, and goofy, bucktooth demeanor — isn’t completely gone. “Certain things about the original design we loved: Big jaw, big snout, and a clumsy quality that we really wanted to not completely forget about,” says director David Lowery, who treated those essential traits of Elliott as but the tabula rasa from which they could build a new creature.

But the first thing to go? Those hot pink spikes and wild neon haircut. “We explored pink, just to see what would happen,” Lowery admits, but since this Elliott lives in a photo-real terrain, the bold splash of pink didn’t exactly blend in with the foliage. “From the get-go, the aesthetic was always to make everything feel as handmade as possible, including effects,” Lowery continues. “To really have it feel like a blur between a very grounded realistic world and a world in which a big green dragon that can turn invisible can exist.” (Lowery’s grounded approach may also apply to his next project: Disney’s just-announced live-action remake of Peter Pan.)

“David saw this furry, soft dragon that kids could imagine, when they go into the woods, could actually be there,” production designer Jade Healy adds, explaining that the 2016 Elliott is based primarily in the world of domestic mammals. Medieval illustrations and reptilian dragon archetypes were swapped for a more canine approach in order to build a soft, furry creature who wouldn’t be as frightening in a more realistic setting.

Crazy as it sounds, another big part of Elliott’s reinvention came from hours upon hours of funny animal videos online. To nail down the dragon’s inelegant movements, animators at New Zealand effects workshop Weta went deep into a zoological YouTube spiral. “There’s one video of a giant panda tumbling in his cave, and we looked at that again and again as our Elliott — this big animal who just doesn’t know what to do with his body,” says Healy.

Other animals are at play in the roughly 20-foot-tall beast, including the wings of an Australian flying fox, the fur of a polar bear, a roar somewhere in the vicinity of “lion, tiger, and elephant,” and, according to Lowery, the idiosyncratic tics of another persnickety species. “On a personal level, I don’t even see my dog at all…I see a cat,” says the director with a chuckle. “So much of Elliott’s behavior, when I gave direction, would just be based on this thing my cat did that morning when he was first waking up.”

[drgon78]

That is not a dragon but a kitty cat with wings.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Well, many Asian dragons were supposed to have fur. And it would blend in well with moss and grass. If he becomes "invisible" by hiding in plain sight as part of the ground (like a certain dargon named Draco....) then it would make perfect sense. I kind of like this idea. And dragons can be curious and playful like cats, so yeah, I can see it. Also territorial.

[IndigoErth]

If nothing else, this will have some cute, fluffy dragon plush toys on store shelves.

I dunno, with all the dragon stuff over the past number of years and currently, maybe it was partly in trying to differentiate their own product from the abundance of other dragon stuff.