Disney's Feature Length Mickey Mouse Movie

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Disney Making Feature Length Mickey Mouse Movie

Despite the character’s locked-in-stone status as an animation icon, Mickey Mouse has forever been a star of shorts, television and comics. While there have been some direct to video films starring Mickey, he’s never starred in his own theatrical feature.

Now it looks like one could happen. Not quickly or soon, because that’s not the pace of animation. But still: a Mickey feature in theaters would be a pretty big deal.
Speaking to Bleeding Cool about his work on Winnie the Pooh, long-time Disney veteran Burny Mattinson said,

We’ll watch how this goes. Part of the reason that there has never been a Mickey feature is that the character is a serious cash cow for Disney and, not to put too fine a point on it, the company has been afraid to screw that up. Easier to do lower-profile TV and cartoons than gamble with a big movie that could fall flat.

But that has been changing a bit, in part through the game Epic Mickey. A 2009 New York Times article explains that the game is part of an overall attempt to play with the character a bit:

…in a parallel but separate effort, Disney has quietly embarked on an even larger project to rethink the character’s personality, from the way Mickey walks and talks to the way he appears on the Disney Channel and how children interact with him on the Web — even what his house looks like at Disney World.

Epic Mickey didn’t quite light the world on fire, so it might have also stalled plans to turn towards a Mickey that is a little more mischievous. I’d like to know what Burny Mattinson’s pitch is for the character — which Mickey is he hoping to work with?

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[Moviefan2k4]

This sounds like it could be an interesting choice from Disney, but I really don't want some "post-modern" take on the character. He's been childlike and iconic just the way he is since the 1930s or better...if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[EricJ]

But that has been changing a bit, in part through the game Epic Mickey. A 2009 New York Times article explains that the game is part of an overall attempt to play with the character a bit:

Problem is, they "changed" Mickey's character in the early draft of Epic Mickey, and.....nobody liked him. A lot of money was spent changing the game BACK.

Mickey As We Know Him is a good character but a problem: Everybody likes him, but nobody knows why, or hence what to write for him.
In the 30's toons, he was the Harold Lloyd at the center of Donald's bad-boy gags and Goofy's slapstick; in the post-Sorcerer years, he was just the optimist in a big situation.

90's Disney at one point toyed with "Around the World in 80 Days" for Mickey, but that was eventually downgraded to a short, and "Three Musketeers" got sent to the vidquel studios.

[detective392]

Really hope this works out as I have been wanting a Mickey movie for quite some time.

[Battra92]

I really absolutely LOVED Epic Mickey so I'd like to see something done that incorporates Oswald and maybe even Julius the Cat. I think there's a story to be told there.

[X400]

Disney should make a Kingdom Hearts movie/ Trilogy that would be epic starting off or taking the perspective of Mickeys role at least in the first one


for those that don't know its a highly profitable Japanese video game series (square enix and disney interactive) that is tied in with the Disney character world and the Final Fantasy world; the games themselves are like an epic disney film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts

[detective392]

Originally Posted by X400

Disney should make a Kingdom Hearts movie/ Trilogy that would be epic starting off or taking the perspective of Mickeys role at least in the first one


for those that don't know its a highly profitable Japanese video game series (square enix and disney interactive) that is tied in with the Disney character world and the Final Fantasy world; the games themselves are like an epic disney film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts

I have been wanting a Kingdom Hearts movie since the first game and would love a trilogy.