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Disney Are Planning To Make A Live-Action Winnie The Pooh Movie

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As you may be aware, Walt Disney Pictures are currently in the middle of remaking all of their classic animated movies into up-to-date live-action fares with the likes of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Sleeping Beauty (via MALEFICENT) and CINDERELLA already out there, with a planned BEAUTY AT THE BEAST, MULAN and THE JUNGLE BOOK all lined up for the next couple of years. Now it seems that the studio is also turning its hand to another one of its properties; Winnie The Pooh.

Sources say that the Mouse House will be adapting the A.A. Milne books into a new feature film with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, who wrote and directed the Sundance indie LISTEN UP PHILLIP with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss, directing.

The word is that the new version will focus on Christopher Robin as an adult who is summoned back to Hundred Acre Wood to frolic with his animal pals: a honey-obsessed bear (Pooh), a clinically depressed donkey (Eeyore), a bouncing tiger (Tigger) and a bumbling pig (Piglet), among others.

The character debuted in a self-titled book all of the way back in 1926, though Disney didn’t get hold of the rights until 1966. Since then the studio has released a series of animated fares, including The Tigger Movie, Piglet’s Big Movie, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and Winnie the Pooh, amongst others.

That’s all the information that we have on the new project at present, and there was no release date present in the original report, but seeing as the studio has Tim Burton’s vision of DUMBO set for release in 2018, we’ll expect a Pooh movie potentially shortly after that.

We’ll bring you more news as we get it.

Source: Deadline

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