Since beloved childhood characters are becoming orphans of their licensed parents, filmmakers are making sure to snatch them up and give them good homes in the culture we call horror.
With the viral success of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and mediocre reviews of the Grinch-inspired The Mean One, kid’s books are becoming fodder for grisly adaptations. Filmmakers like writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield know they are ripe for the picking and the more rotten the better.
Frake-Waterfield recently told The Hollywood Reporter that his next project will be a blood-soaked version of Peter Pan called Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. The director parlayed to The Hollywood Reporter that in this version the cute fairy Tinkerbell will be “heavily obese” and “recovering from drugs.”
Disney’s Peter Pan (1955)
He then told Dread Central that he wants to do his version of Bambi which casts the small deer as a “vicious killing machine.” With all of these violent ideas surrounding innocuous Disney characters, it might make sense that Frake-Waterfield create his own universe as Marvel has done with their personalities.
And that is precisely what he wants to do.
“The idea is that we’re going to try and imagine they’re all in the same world, so we can have crossovers,” he says. “People have been messaging saying they really want to see Bambi versus Pooh.”
Although the director is seemingly scavaging ideas from the file of aged-out books now abandoned to the public domain, he says there is more to his creativity than that.
“There are many, many, many other ideas out there which aren’t tied to Disney,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Loads of old fairytales and urban legends, concepts that are synonymous with your childhood, and they’re the ones which I want to build up into a twisted alternative reality.”
The upcoming PETER PAN-inspired horror movie will feature a “heavily obese” Tinkerbell who’s “recovering from drugs.”
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