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This scene concept was not from the first version of the Tinker Bell movie, but another drafted after that was scrapped, by Sharon Morrill, which John Lasseter apparently abhorred.
From this article by Dominic Von Reidemann, “Lasseter even hated the trilogy’s concept: Tinker Bell’s best friend discovers that boy fairies live in another part of Neverland. That sets the stage for a Romeo and Juliet story, where two lovers are caught in a war between the boy and girl fairies. The first movie ends with the Romeo fairy sacrificing himself to save his love, and the Juliet fairy going with Tinker Bell to see a performance by an all-girl fairy group informally called “The Pixie Chicks.”
In the second and third movies, Tinker Bell discovers that the Romeo fairy isn’t actually dead, and the trilogy ends happily ever after. Think it sucks? So did John Lasseter.”
The next idea featured Peter and the lost boys, so, “Lasseter told Morrill he “would not support a (Tinker Bell) movie with Peter Pan in it.””
I very much agree! Thank you, Mr. Lasseter, for saving us from these disgraces…
(I still find the idea of “The Pixie Chicks” hilarious, but this pop rock fairy band vibe does not fit the franchise, and honestly, the movies would not have been taken seriously by ANYONE if they had been produced.)
That first Romeo and Juliet kinda story does seem like a mess and I’m totally okay with it not being a thing, but I still really wanna see more of this.
Yeah, it's a book coming out in November called Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinker Bell and The Lost City by Zach Loran Clark.
If you look at the art Ozwald's original name is Quantum, so I think the book just lifted the designs of the characters. The movie blew up a little last year with some popular posts, so I think they are trying to bring DF back in some way. Quin's design is based off of Ember and Axel also seems to be based of of the character in the middle (can't see when I'm typing)
-> 2002. Disney is adapting Gail Carson Levine’s “Ella Enchanted”
-> 2003. four people from Disney Press take Levine to lunch and ask her to invent the Disney Fairies books
-> 2004. Ella Enchanted comes out
-> 2005. Levine’s Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Eggs comes out
-> 2008. Tinker Bell film comes out
just thinking about the levels of simultaneous marketing and media that were produced through this. By having the fresh familiarity with Levine through the Ella Enchanted movie, it marketed the Fairy Dust books, then (as mentioned before on this blog) the fairy books themselves were inspiration and marketing for the Tinker Bell film
Hi Mary! I think that youre right basically! But I also think based on some things that Gail had said on her blog, the timeline isn't clear with the books and movies 🤔 and where the "early version" comes in- so I thought I'd share some things I've hypothesized about the timeline
around -2001-2003 Early concepts were made by the Disney Consumer Products/publishing art group for Disney Mermaids/Ariel's world it was reworked into Disney Fairies- it started out as Tinkerland in concept art by Ron Dias. Early character concepts that stayed were Bess, who was Lavender, as well as Rosetta and Silvermist
Art by Judith Holmes Clarke from her book (found on Whitney Pollette's instagram)
2003-2004
Disney Consumer Products contacted the publishing department for the book, and were able to get a hold of Gail Carson Levine because of the work with Ella Enchanted. Early concepts/names of the characters were made before Levine's book, because she was suggested the name Invidia for Vidia. Gail thought it was too on the nose, so she shortened it. She did not know of what the illustrator, David Christiana had drawn- but is said to be that she hadnt seen but had approved of. I assumed he worked with some early concept art
Rani is an original name, and Beck is assumed to be as well
Around 2004, the "video department" (Disneytoon Studios) had interest into developing this into a film. The original script for the movie involved characters going on around individual quests to have children believe in fairies again, but in Pixie Hollow. Judith, one of the original artists- also made concept pieces and the cast was made of Pixie Hollow quickly. Silvermist and Rosetta were preexisting by this point, going off of Lisa Temming's portfolio. There was also a character named Lumen in the lineup (top left), and Iridessa's name was Candessa. Fawn also wore purple at first. Drafts of the chapter books were likely produced as well, as I've seen some art pre chapter book on the Japan promotional site I visited
Art of Judith Holmes Clarke
An early character drawing that looks like Rani:
Tinker Bell and The Ring of Belief - Storyboard by Robert Anich
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There were four quests we know of from storyboards that helped a fairy overcome their fear. There were also more songs planned.
Eventually, the movie was switched in to 3d and the plot became grander and took place in the mainland, another 3d production was the Snow White dwarves movie. The artists pull from art noveau. It can be assumed that there are many scenes at fairy school as well at this point, because of the abundance of storyboards of that
2005- Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg was published and Disney Fairies brand launched globally
The Disney website renovation was being established which would allow create a fairy and Pixie Hollow to exist, but also... the Disney and Pixar merger would happen-
2006- Pixar buys Disney and John Lasseter gets involved with Disneytoon/tinkerbell, Sharon Morill is in charge and wants a full Disney Fairies launch by 2006. In the end two pitches are had, one is a modified treatment by Bradley Raymond (director) that used more naturalism and real life insporation, the other suggested to expand the franchise but did not provide script edits, but plot synopsis for new sequels. John Lasseter prefers the edit and they begin rewriting Tinker Bell
Raymond also used inspo from the books, and directly borrows from "In the Realm of Never Fairies" I think
Late 2006/2007- The movie is rewritten, the pixie previews are produced. 3 get bundled with the movie Peter Pan Return to Neverland, Pixie Powered Edition- the others go on Disney Channel eventually. Brittany Murphy leaves and Mae lands the role.
Also, both movie trailers and the website have the older promotional materials
Fall 2008- Movie releases, and they planned four movies for each season originally. Production of Lost Treasure starts around this point and released in 2009. (evidence from the Tinker Bell DS game) Also I think they used models of the London mainland to save money in TB and GFR, as well as model the orphan Victoria from the trailer into Wendy. I swear I noticed a background character from a deleted scene in GFR during the London car chase. As well as there being bg fairies with the earlier artstyle in the opening of Tinker Bell
So thats how the entire brand changed every year 🤔 ... I think. Weird butterfly effect!
i also want to add this about Levine’s inspiration to Raymond’s edited version:
In her forward to my 10th anniversary edition of Quest for the Egg, Levine says:
“editors showed me other illustrations, which were of fairies doing this or that […] I decided Tink would be able to repair almost anything; tinkering would be her talent. Talent? I thought of the fairies in the illustrations doing this or that — exercising their talents. Each fairy could have a talent. They could fall into groups.”
She invents talents, then we get the film version with the whole movie plot being about Tink’s talent!
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