Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield shared valuable advice with producers who plan on adapting Steamboat Willie in any capacity now that the Disney IP is in the public domain — don’t do it.2023 was a year of unlikely horror hits. Thanksgiving, Talk to Me, M3GAN, and Five Nights at Freddy’s were small productions but succeeded just as easily as The Nun 2 and Saw X. Also joining these releases was the curiously nefarious Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which despite its innocuous title was a slasher film led by a character from a beloved children’s story. The movie’s premise earned it enough clout to make a killing at the box office, and its director, realizing he has opened a Pandora’s Box of opportunities, promises to horrify audiences with adaptations of other storybook IPs. He told IndieWire he’s staying clear from any of Disney’s properties, though.Frake-Waterfield cites recent experience as the reason why he’s not making a Mickey Mouse / Steamboat Willie movie. “There are things which we had to deal with Winnie the Pooh behind the scenes that were quite big, and I think [the Steamboat Willie projects] might get a bit of a shock soon,” he explained. “We didn’t want to go near that character.” The director avoided IP issues by basing Blood and Honey on A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh instead of the one licensed by Disney in 1961. Steamboat Willie, on the other hand, remains part of the Disney brand and trademark, which makes it easy for the company to litigate anyone adapting the IP.
Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield shared valuable advice with producers who plan on adapting Steamboat Willie in any capacity now that the Disney IP is in the public domain — don’t do it.
2023 was a year of unlikely horror hits. Thanksgiving, Talk to Me, M3GAN, and Five Nights at Freddy’s were small productions but succeeded just as easily as The Nun 2 and Saw X. Also joining these releases was the curiously nefarious Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which despite its innocuous title was a slasher film led by a character from a beloved children’s story. The movie’s premise earned it enough clout to make a killing at the box office, and its director, realizing he has opened a Pandora’s Box of opportunities, promises to horrify audiences with adaptations of other storybook IPs. He told IndieWire he’s staying clear from any of Disney’s properties, though.
Frake-Waterfield cites recent experience as the reason why he’s not making a Mickey Mouse / Steamboat Willie movie. “There are things which we had to deal with Winnie the Pooh behind the scenes that were quite big, and I think [the Steamboat Willie projects] might get a bit of a shock soon,” he explained. “We didn’t want to go near that character.” The director avoided IP issues by basing Blood and Honey on A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh instead of the one licensed by Disney in 1961. Steamboat Willie, on the other hand, remains part of the Disney brand and trademark, which makes it easy for the company to litigate anyone adapting the IP.
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