When Disney takes on a fairy tale, its version tends to become the definitive version: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, etc. At the D23 Expo, the company announced it is now working on what it hopes will be the definitive version of Jack and the Beanstalk, called enormous. The movie will take place in Spain, because he thought it reflected the “age of discovery”, where Jack is making a discovery above the ground while Spaniards are out discovering the world. At one point, a film named Giants was supposed to be the next animated film up for Disney following Big Hero 6. “It’s a world of giants”.
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The first giant he meets is Inma, a feisty young girl based on a real kid the huge team met in Spain. “She’s 60 feet tall, and very fiery”, he said. “She was a little character, a little ham”.
It looks like Disney might be going back to the classics with their next animated feature, set to release in 2018. “The possibilities for comedy are endless”. The two end up teaming up to stop the “Storm Giants” – a group of menacing bad guys that are trying to wreak havoc upon everyone.
The movie will be directed by Tangled director Nathan Greno with music from Frozen’s Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. I think when you read an old Jack and the Beanstalk story, you don’t think it’s a big tearjerker, but we want that.
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/Film’s Peter Sciretta described the moment as “not magical, but fun” – not quite on the level of Idina Menzel’s performance of “Let It Go” at D23 in a previous year.
