After the success of live-action remakes like The Jungle Book and The Lion King, Disney is setting its photo-realistic CGI sights on Bambi next: the 1942 animated feature film classic. Screenwriters Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and will write the screenplay. It's not much of a gamble: Disney has already made over $8.2 billion worldwide on their live-action films based on animated classics (and Mulan is coming out later this year: not to mention The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cruella a prequel to 101 Dalmatians: and that's only the beginning).
But getting back to Bambi: what about that scene?
Of course we're talking about when Bambi's mother is tragically shot (albeit off-screen). To say the least, people are already chatting (and joking) about it on social media.
when Bambi's mom dies and his face is just an emotionless, stotic picture of a deer's face https://t.co/odJO8ZNnsz
— Soundwave (@LocalSoundwave) January 24, 2020
The first images from Disney's Live Action 'BAMBI' remake pic.twitter.com/1HNk0DkQiP
— Ghoul Vibes Nation 🧟♂️ (@GeekVibesNation) January 24, 2020
This is a very salient point. Bambi is a brilliant, haunting film that has a villain we never see, a life-changing death that occurs off-screen, and a low-key meditation on growing up. It can't possibly work in any other context than the one in which it already exists. https://t.co/uHbunnXoqE
— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece) January 24, 2020
Source: Variety
