The "Earth" movie - focus on families
Earth is the ultimate in professional “Mash-Ups.” Re-Mixes. Whatever.
Disney’s Formula:
Take BBC’s Planet Earth.
Remove David Attenborough. Replace with James Earl Jones (include “Circle of Life” Mufasa reference for good measure).
Condense to 90 minutes. Remove blood (but retain some graphic predator/prey interaction).
Focus on extending the “animal family” narratives.
Release to North American theatres on Earth Day.
The Result:
A “mash-up” of Planet Earth that’s less meditative, but appeals to an audience that otherwise may not have the patience to see some of the best-shot and best-produced footage ever (period).
We’re already on notice that a sequel about the oceans is slated for next year’s Earth Day.
Genius.
You’re doing it right, Disney. I’ll be there. Quite possibly because my Planet Earth blu-rays will be worn out by the next time Earth makes it ’round the sun.
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I agree. 6 month ago I bought the BBC DVD series “Planet Earth” and “Blue Planet”, and we have seen almost 10 times. (you can get it now for $100 CAN plus “Birds Life” it’s 15+ dvd)
But mistakenly, I went with my family and we were exited to see the movie which is “DONE BY DISNEY”.
We were chocked. Me and my wife were watching it and know what is coming next. Not only that, we noticed the script is been stolen from BBC besides the music. It’s exactly the same. “what a shame”.
The original series almost 10 DVD which includes 2dvd behind the extra. Each DVD is about 45 mins.
So what Disney did is squeeze 450mins to be 90mins. Well done Disney. Besides the script is not related and didn’t make any sense.
By the way, if you want to watch the NEW coming movie for Disney Ocean on 2010, you can watch it now on exclusively on DVD which is done originally by BBC. “Blue Planet”.
shame on you disney, this is not your first time….