Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Again, the news is dominated by remakes and reboots. This time it's Disney remaking THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET. They've been trying for a while, but this time it's serious as a movie poster would say. They've locked in ENCHANTED's Kevin Lima to direct the movie guaranteed to have 100% less Don Knotts.
I'm not necessarily down on this project specifically, but we're reaching a point now where fucking everything is just repeating itself. I like Lima as a director and thought ENCHANTED was a ton of fun. It was a smart, cute and fun take on the Disney Princess legacy... and... an original movie.
The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik says this project will continue the tradition of the first in that it will be an animation and live-action hybrid. If Lima really wanted to sway me personally (and I'm sure that's high up on his priority list) then instead of going the CGI route for when his hapless lead becomes a fish we get to see a 2-D classic style animation transformation, like ENCHANTED, but in reverse.
He'd also keep it period and not have this new fish sniffing out underwater Al Qaeda or whatever the modern day threat would be. Nazis in kids movies ALWAYS work. I cite BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS and rest my case.
Lima's got a few projects on his plate at the minute, so who knows how things will end up. If he's directing, I have some degree of interest in this project, but I'd rather see him developing his original material. You?
-Quint
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