Disney to make Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Movie

Yeah... it's happening

A movie based on a ride based off a movie?! Isn't that inception of some sort?

And wasn't there a completely unsuccessful, Monty Python cast filled live action Mr. Toad movie that everyone forgot about? I mean, on top of the Wind and the Willows animated feature they did.

It's supposedly CGI/Live Action hybrid when... let's face it... you could just make a completely animated version of the original Kenneth Grahame book and it would work just as well, if not better.

And apparently the article also says they're trying with Haunted Mansion as a movie again...

Double

A ride based on a ride that closed down.
WHAT?

Now, if only they could bring that ride back to Disneyworld. I use to have hype about Mr.Toad & Wind in the Willows a couple of times. Thinking of the ride. That's the only thing that gets me thinking about Winnie the Pooh.

Sure the ride would had been fine, if it didn't replaced loved Disney stuff. I would most likely see this movie. For the love of Mr.Toad.

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The ride was even better if you were, ahem, under the influence of something...

WHY make a movie? Agreed, the animated short was fun...

And I love the actual Haunted Mansion too much to even countenance another horrendous mangling of its mythos.
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Wait, didn't they already do this?

Yes they did. But they have made remakes before.

If done correctly, a feature length Wind in the Willows/Toad of Toad Hall would be wonderful. And face it, as Americans, we're pretty detached from the tale. We only know of that Disney animated short. Sure, some Anglophiles know about the Cosgrove Hall series... but it's sure to cause a fire storm in the UK more than it would here... though I was probably completely wrong about Belgium wanting to destroy Hollywood for mangling the Smurfs up (but then again, they got stuff conceptually more correct than the Hanna Barbera cartoon... just ruined it by putting them in the wrong setting).

Still...



Additionally, and I know Wiki isn't quite a reliable source... I found this quote...

Here's about that movie they made in 1996. It had a couple of people from Monty Python in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Toad's_Wild_Ride_(movie)

This is proof no one reads my posts

I'm going to say this as calmly as humanly possible...

I JUST POSTED THE TRAILER, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!

Sorry about that first one. But your posts do tend to be very long, and I find myself applying tl;dr without thinking first.
I hope this one isn't live action again. That just doesn't work.

I can't really make a comment on the Monty Python cast made film, but there was a great adaption made in 2005 that they showed on PBS's Masterpiece Theater that was live action. If done right, you can make it into live action no problem.

But those are three words of importance... "If Done Right."

As long as it isn't all Chipmunk-like, I'm sure it's gonna be fine.

Still... it seems like they're treating this like "oh, that ride that used to be at Disney World." Not even the cartoon it was based off of. Not even the book that was in turn based off of. A Theme park ride movie.

POTC showed that they could actually make a theme park ride a movie if they take the bare essentials of what that ride is. Everything else they did showed that POTC was almost dumb luck.

I thought the Monty Python cast did a pretty good job. IMO