10 Upcoming Movie Remakes NOBODY Asked For
6. All The Disney Animation Remakes
Over the last decade-plus, Disney has sought to industriously remake their most beloved animated creations, with the likes of The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan, and Pinocchio receiving mega-budget "updates" of wildly varying quality.
And the production pipeline is showing no signs of slowing down, what with The Little Mermaid due to drop in May, and live-action remakes of Snow White, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Robin Hood, Bambi, The Aristocats, and Lilo and Stitch set to release over the next few years.
While it'd be disingenuous to suggest that people won't watch these movies, whether in cinemas on Disney+, did anyone ask for them to be remade?
Aside from Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book - a remake made with real care and artistry - most of these films feel less like artistic achievements than cynical branding exercises, to re-serve the same classic story to a new generation with less of everything that made them great in the first place.
That's Disney's prerogative, to bolster their IP and invest another generation in their stories, but beyond soullessly printing money, there's little reason for any of these remakes to exist.