Been thinking about how I would rewrite Wish and here’s my thoughts so far:
King Magnifico is not a villain, period. Instead I decided to make him more akin to Merlin from The Sword In The Stone. He’s just a quirky old man with protective grandpa vibes.
Asha is already Magnifico’s apprentice at the start of the film and he fills in the role of a father figure in her life. They still disagree about the wish-granting ethics, but it’s way more amiable. Also Asha’s basically like “I’m not a little girl anymore” and Magnifico’s like “you’ll understand when you’re older”, etc. I can kinda see them having a similar vibe to how Twisted portrays Jasmine and Jafar tbh.
I decided to make the queen the main villain instead and very similar to the queen from Snow White. She manages to keep this facade of being a kind and generous ruler, but as Asha grows older, the queen finds it harder and harder to contain her jealously. She’s also subtly manipulative towards Magnifico as well.
I loved the concept of Star being a shapeshifter from the original draft of the project, so I decided to keep that element intact and make him Asha’s love interest. He’s somewhat like a gender switched Ariel, curious and excited to explore the human world and wanting to be a part of it.
I decided to change the context of the dark magic book corrupting Magnifico. As the queen becomes more and more unhinged, she starts trying to coerce her husband into doing her dirty work, but he staunchly refuses, so she uses the book to change him from a benevolent wizard to an archetypal evil sorcerer. She also does this to spite Asha because she knows how close their bond is.
In the end, it’s the queen who ends up trapped forever in the mirror and Magnifico is saved from her dark influence.
Asha’s character arc and Magnifico’s character arc are very similar as they both learn to admit when they’re wrong. Asha accepts that she still has a lot to learn and Magnifico learns to trust his apprentice with more responsibilities as she grows up.
Star’s one wish was to be human. He knows that that means giving up his immortality, but he’s ok with that because he would rather spend a finite life with Asha than be alone and live forever. His wish is granted and we get a closing narration from Magnifico (who also does an opening narration at the start) saying “…and we all lived happily ever after.” before closing the book that opened the movie.
I’m pretty sure there’s going to be other bits and parts but these are the ideas I have so far. Lmk what you all think! 👍
Young Magnifico grew up in a small village. Him and his family didn't have much, but his parents always told him about the power of dreams. His mother told him of wishing upon a star, his father kindly reminding him that no wish comes true without hard work.
Local magicians would help with what little power they had - if the crops were suffering, they'd band together and help the water flow - if a donkey ran away, they'd ask the wind to guide them to it. Magnifico was enthralled and studied with them, learning what little he could, trying to do good, too.
But when rogue magicians came to his family's land, he saw the darkness of magic. Their magic ran unruled, burning and eating and taking over whatever they so desired.
Magnifico lost his family that day. He was whisked away by the magicians of the village, seperated from them when they defended the magicless villagers from the rogues.
With scars of magic seared into his sould, Magnifico sought safety - but fear had made its way into his heart. As he grew, so did the anger. He found a woman, kind and understanding, who'd been hurt by magic as he. He had learned its craft, and with her, he learned not to fear his own powers, but nurture them.
Together, they created a sanctuary - a safe country where magic was heavily restricted. Magic is fueled by desire, and what is a desire other than an impossible wish?
Using his powers, Magnifico took the wishes of his people, keeping them safe, not for their sake, but his own. The collected safety, he and his wife would say.
When people wanted the wishes set free, fear reawoke in Magnifico. Fear is a powerful force, and with his wife by his side, he summoned forces not to be played with. King Magnifico would do anything to keep his own wish, his desire and desperation for safety, a continuous reality - no matter the cost...
Ok so I opened Disney+ the other day and saw this.....
In all honesty I have no high hopes for this. But I'll still give it a chance even though every thing in this franchise (excluding: Wicked World, D1, and D2) is just....bad in my opinion. In my honest opinion this franchise is just ouat on a lower budget but that's for another time. I just wanna know if anyone would be interested in helping me rewrite this or the franchise as a whole
Here is a link to the discord for rewrites if anyone is interested
Check out the Disney re-write forum community on Discord - hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
My Potential Projects 1: “Chicken Little Hard-Headed”
Alternative Title: Chicken Licken Hard-Headed (UK)
Latin Spanish Title: La nueva Chicken Little (The New Chicken Little)
Direction and Writing: Mark Dindal, Rodrick
Writing based on the original script/draft for Chicken Little (2005) by Mark Dindal and Randy Fullmer
Production done at Walt Disney Television Animation, with traditional animation provided by Mercury Filmworks, Toon City and Snipple Animation Studios
Character Design: Omar Lozano
Character design adapted from Omar Lozano's illustrations for the graphic novel Far Out Fables: Chicken Little Saves The Moon Base, by Benjamin Harper (published by Stone Arch Books)
In a world of talking animals, 12-year-old (and 6 acorns tall) Chicken Little's overactive imagination and proneness to panic attacks have made her an outcast at home and in Mayberry Town, where she lives. Her father, Randall Rooster, just wants to have a regular kid like everyone else, which most of the time leads to her questioning about being a "freak" due to how often she seemingly witnesses vampires, ghosts, aliens and monsters lurking around. Because of this, Hailey Hen, Chicken Little's mother, has to constantly keep her husband in line so as to avoid Little from wrongly believing that he doesn't love her after all.
At Mayberry Town Middle School, things are even harder for Little, as the mean trio of Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky doesn't stop reminding her of how much of an outcast she is. Principal Owl Powell isn't of help either, as he also sees her as crazy. But then things take a turn for the worst.
One day, Chicken Little gets hit on the head by an acorn and thinks it's a piece of the sky, so she runs from one end of Mayberry Town to the other yelling with all her might "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!". All of the townspeople freak out at this warning. Soon enough Little has unintentionally incited civil unrest across the town, so much so that it almost gets destroyed. After discovering it was just an acorn what started it all, everyone is angry at Chicken Little for raising a false alarm. Thus, almost all of them (including Mayor Turkey Lurkey himself) force her to shape up in order to avoid another incident.
Pressured by this, Little convinces her parents to sign her up at Camp Yes-U-Can, a summer camp set outside of Mayberry Town and meant to improve self-esteem on animal young ones. In fact, even its motto is “Of course you can! At Camp Yes-U-Can!”. To Little’s dismay, Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky end up going as well, and the bullying towards her isn't stopped. Despite this, the little chicken is comforted at camp after meeting other outcast animals from across the land that also have challenges of their own.
Cygrus "Ugly Duckling" Mallard is a down-to-earth bird from the town of Pondey Ponds. He was adopted from the local orphanage by Mrs. Mallard, who already had ducklings of her own. Nowadays, Cygrus is constantly bullied by them and by his school peers. He feels different from the rest and can’t wait for the day on which, according to his mother, he will become a beautiful swan.
Runt of the Litter is the smallest of twelve pig siblings and now weights 700 pounds. Still, he sees himself as a “wee, helpless little pig” because of his constant comparisons with his other brothers and sisters, who (believe it or not) are way more colossal than him. However, despite his low self-esteem, he is very open to meeting new friends.
Fish Out of Water is very silly and playful, but not completely accustumed to the lifestyles from dry land yet. The whole fish family, the parents being very prestigious scientists, has moved from their ocean hometown in order to study the behavior of terrestial animals. At land, Fish has problems socializing with other animal young ones. While, for example, sea animals play ball by letting it float in order for another player to catch it, at land one’s supposed to toss the ball directly. Fish hasn’t still get accustumed to this and other aspects from terrestial culture, and is viewed as a weirdo by the land kids.
Chicken Little gets really well with those animals, who understand her worries as a whole. However, she soon realizes the bullying from Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky will be the least of her problems there, as the three sheep who are camp counselors may not be what they seem. She discovers they, led by Counselor Matt Hornsby, are cooking up a very evil plan for the end of the summer. Thus, she will have to use a lot of courage in order to foil them. But she isn’t alone. Will Little and her new friends obtain the fruits of their personal growth in time to save the day?
NOTE 1: Goosey Loosey will not talk, but rather have a voice actor doing their respective animal noises á lá Frank Welker.
Chicken Little - Holly Hunter
Randall Rooster - Danny McBride
Hailey Hen - Maya Rudolph
Foxy Loxy - Amy Sedaris
Cygrus Mallard - Sean Hayes
Runt of the Litter - Jason Ritter
Fish out of Water - Zach Tyler Eisen (aided by a water cooler and a straw)
Mayor Turkey Lurkey - Tom Kenny
Counselor Matt - Penn Jilette (when in evil mode)
2nd Counselor - Jenny Slate (when in evil mode)
3rd Counselor - Tom Kenny (when in... you get the idea)
NOTE 2: I've priorized the Latin Spanish/Mexican cast here because I'm an actual Latin American myself and also a big fan of Latin Spanish dubbing. All voice actors listed below are accompanied by one of their characters in parenthesis. I want them to use the voices of those characters when taking their respective roles in Chicken Little Hard-Headed.
Chicken Little - Fernanda Gastélum (Aira Shiratori in the Netflix dub of Dan Da Dan)
Randall Rooster - Ricardo Tejedo (Rick Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines)
Hailey Hen - Rommy Mendoza (Linda Flynn-Fletcher in Phineas and Ferb)
Foxy Loxy - Jessica Ángeles (Catra in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Mayor Turkey Lurkey - Gerardo Reyero (Hugh Pickles in Rugrats)
Cygrus Mallard - Yamil Atala (Dexter in Dexter’s Laboratory)
Runt of the Litter - Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Joey Felt in Atomic Puppet)
Counselor Matt - Arturo Mercado (Bob the Builder) when in good mode; José Roberto Pisano (Death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) when in evil mode
2nd Counselor - Rubén Cerda (Horton in Horton Hears a Who) when in good mode; Carla Medina (Bellwether in Zootopia) when in evil mode
3rd Counselor - Adriana Núñez (Miss Rabbit in Peppa Pig) when in good mode; Rolando de Castro (Dr. Wolfowitz in 3 Pigs and a Baby) when in evil mode
My friends and I made up a whole rewrite of Beauty and The Beast which is too complicated for one caption, so here’s the change that sparked the whole idea: they are now Lesbians
Ok so my Cruella movie.
The story is told by Cruella is flashback, ‘youre probably wondering how I got here’ style. Played by Glen Close. She starts off in court, following the events of 101.
The story is dramatically unreliable, Cruella both narrator and character have 3rd wall breaking, asides to the viewer, the jury and the judge. Occasion brief ‘hushed’ discussions with her lawyer. Scenes will straight out change halfway through when the lawyer or focus group reports or etc say it’d be more sympathetic to the jury if it was different. I.e. a montage of her crushing young upstart fashion designers is changed half way to a montage of her breaking glass ceilings and talking truth to power, to old 1960s businessmen with the same names as those upstarts from before.
There is no set era, sometimes the flashbacks are clearly set in the 1990s, sometimes the 70s, sometimes the 1800s (with the spooky house) somethings no setting at all. Every scene has the purpose of showing how Cruella is trying to show she was right, legal and moral, to do what she did in the original cartoon while at the same time being so out of touch wealth evil lady she has no idea how people think. But never saying, Oh I didn’t do that, but, Yes and this is how I was right to do that.
Random musical numbers in the flashbacks explained by narrator cruella telling her lawyer he doesnt get it, people like songs, trust me.
The actor playing Cruella changes in the flashbacks, getting progressively younger/etc actors, starting with Glenn Close in a laughably bad wig and child costume, and ending with Emma Stone for scenes set like a week before the Glenn Close in Court who is telling the story. Same with the sidekicks, start off looking like acouple cartoon goons, ending up Hollywood hunks.
At the end of the film, she stands triumphant and the jury all vote guilty. But the Judge comments that he’s always been a good friend to the de vills and lets her off with a warning on the condition she doesn’t puppynap for atleast a week.
I was suddenly struck with an idea that I have fallen in love with
so basically I called ‘don’t cry’
it is Sleeping Beauty rewritten from the point of view of Prince Phillip (not the actual Prince Phillip of England the one from Sleeping Beauty) but like the story is also completely different.
imma draw aurora (or Briar as I prefer to call her in this story) next.
I don’t want to give too much away but Phillip is a soft anxious boy who in stressful situations will say over and over again ‘don’t cry’ and then end up crying because he has anxiety.
he has a sword but Briar usually ends up using it because he always ends up crying when about to fight someone.
To save her father from death at war, Haruno Sakura takes his place to joining the Ninja Academy. Unfortunately, only males are allowed, so she pretents to be a man.
