Genre: Animated/Musical.
Studio:
Buena Vista.
Production Company:
Walt Disney Pictures.
Project Phase: Greenlighted.
Who's Voices Are In It:
None.
Who's Making It:
Hendel Butoy, Scott Johnson (Directors); Don Ernst (Producer);
Dean Gordon (Artwork Supervisor); Dave Bossert (Special
Visual Effects Supervisor).
Premise: Some portions of the original Fantasia are being removed and new musical numbers being inserted (which was originally Walt Disney's intention).
Release Date: 2000.
Comments: Nothing about which numbers are to be removed, and what the content of the new musical acts are to be have been publically announced (of course, that doesn't stop us: see Scoop Feedback.) One speculated rumor (later denied) was that one of the new musical numbers would adapt a Beatles song.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
April 11, 1996... Three persistent rumors from inside Disney channels are floating about concerning new segments. The Planets (by Holst) may be one of the pieces, with Rhapsody in Blue another. The third rumored seqment involves Donald Duck in this film's equivalent of the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment from the original Fantasia. [Scoop submitted under the cover of darkness by 'Pavlov'.]
May 10, 1996... Walt Disney's friend and sometimes-cocktail compainion Salvidor Dali expressed interest in contributing a segment to any update of Fantasia should it come about. Dali collaborated with Disney animators for a few months and came up with several paintings, which were turned into storyboards and sketches. When the sequel was shelved, all the artwork was stored, but at some point over the last few decades the original Dali artwork was stolen. All the storyboards and sketches remain in the possession of Disney, and according to the CA source, they read back in 1994 that the Dali piece would be included in the Fantastia Continued project. The musical arrangement the piece was to be set to was a Spanish melody. [Scoop sent in anonymously; information originally appeared in Cartoon Kingdom magazine.]
May 29, 1996... Release is expected around January 1998, with only one segment finished at the present time. The film is rumored to incorporate both computer generated and traditional animation, in the words of this scoop reporter, as "ground-breaking and spiritual as the first". The new Donald Duck sequence may be titled "Pomp and Circumstance" with Donald on the 'Arch'. [Scoop info courtesy of 'Lumiere'.]
June 5, 1996... ...or is that 'Ark'? Donald is reported to play an assistant on-board Noah's Ark. [Scoop mailed in anonymously.] June 23, 1996... Two addendums of info: Gustav Holst (1874-1934) wrote The Planets composition; and a terrific book titled The Disney That Never Was shows many of the intended Fantasia pieces that were pencilled in by Disney before the project was shelved. One of these sequences, the Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov, looks "wonderful" according to this scooper. [Scoop correction and extra information supplied by 'ralphcomm'.]
July 7, 1996... At a Disney press briefing on June 6, 1996, confirmation was given on two of the new segements: Elgar's 'Pomp & Circumstance', Respighi's 'Pines of Rome' and a number entitled the 'Shostakovich Piano Concerto'. The 'Pines' segment will feature CGI whales, and all numbers are intended to be performed by the Chicago Symphony conduced by James Levine of Metropolitan Opera. [Scoop sent in by 'alansil'.]
April 11, 1998... [Thanks to 'C' for the reminder!]
|
Copyrights and trademarks for the film and related entertainment properties mentioned
herein are held by their respective owners and are used with
permission or solely for the promotional purposes of said properties.
All other text and images copyright © 1995-98 Corona Productions. Last updated: Sunday, 12-Jul-1998 17:34:08 PDT. webmaster@corona.bc.ca |