‘Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey' Director Won't Touch This Other Disney Character
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Pretty much the moment the classic children’s character Winnie the Pooh became public domain in 2022, he joined the pantheon of other characters such as Santa Claus, and got his own slasher film. Blood and Honey was a critical bomb, but a modest box office success, bringing in a return of 5.2 million from a 100,000 dollar budget.
A sequel was inevitable from that, and so we’re getting Blood and Honey 2 in February of 2024. To top it off, the director, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, is also making slashers based on Peter Pan and Bambi, which he hopes to make into an interconnected universe ultimately. Pooh? Peter Pan? Bambi? Is there any beloved childhood character he won’t touch?
Yes, actually.
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In an interview with IndieWire, the director spoke about how he had a fun pitch to turn Mickey Mouse into a slasher character, but ultimately won’t, saying
“He was gonna go down a kind of slasher kind of route. So you can imagine the steamboat film where this fog rolls into the town. It was going to be a bit like that, like the steamboat. Mickey kind of turns up at the port of the town or the fog rolls in. And then he’s getting revenge on the town and like slashing and killing up loads of the town. It would have been really fun. But we decided it’s definitely too close to them. So it’s best not to.”
Disney has been famously protective of its brands, and if they got a hint that this was coming, they’d probably put everything behind crushing it.
Although maybe not. Steamboat Willie will become public domain in 2024. Plus, some people secretly shot the mediocre horror film Escape From Tomorrow inside of Disney World itself, which portrayed the company in a very negative light, and they just ignored it, correctly guessing that if they didn’t make a big deal about it, nobody would ever hear about the film. Maybe that would happen here too.
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