Disney+: 10 Original Movies We Want To See
What could the House Of Mouse bring to their new streaming service?
After collecting some of the biggest entertainment juggernauts around, the House Of Mouse announced their new streaming service, Disney+, and they’re going all in. Right now, the talk is about their relatively low price point and the mammoth back catalogue of programming they’ll be able to offer, but long term, Disney knows it needs to bring more to the table.
Launching on November 12th in the USA before rolling out worldwide, Disney has set aside $1 billion to invest in the service in 2020 alone. A good chunk of that will be in marketing, but they’ll obviously be making new features too.
We already know that they’ll be producing a live-action Lady and the Tramp exclusive to the service, but what else could join it? Remakes, sequels, origin stories and spin-offs could all be on the slate for the near future.
Disney has a whole host of popular characters at their disposal to do what they wish with. New tales featuring their old favourites, or maybe even the newly acquired assets. The only limit is their imagination, and that’s never stopped Disney before.
10. A Mickey Mouse Movie
Mickey Mouse is a classic character, his big round ears synonymous with Disney themselves. But have you ever really stopped and asked yourself why?
He was Walt’s favourites of his own creation, even lending his voice to the character initially, and a statue of the two of them can be found in Magic Kingdom. However, his on screen exploits are decidedly lacking when held up against Disney’s other power hitters. It may be the House Of Mouse, but on the silver screen The Rescuers and Cinderella both have mice who have done more.
Mickey has done better in a host of TV shows, particularly the ones aimed at very young children, and with the likes of Epic Mickey has even tried his hand at video games. However, his only foray into Walt Disney Animation movies have been the Fantasia flicks and Fun & Fancy Free.
He’s appeared in some direct to video movies since then, but even if those it’s the two Goofy movies which have been best received. Maybe with Disney+ their mascot can have a revival with a glittering new feature.
Cynically, Disney are known to finagle with copyright law so a new feature could be a way to protect their mascot.