Amblin' TV is going the OPPOSITE direction that the Walt Disney Company is currently headed. It's taking a live-action feature, and turning it into an animated TV show.
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, a half-hour animated prequel to the original 1984 Gremlins live-action movie [is getting ten-episode order]. The project, from Amblin Television and Warner Bros Animation, had been in the works for months. ...
Libraries, of course, can be exploited in many different ways. Just now Disney is on a roll repurposing animated properties into live-action features. (Or at least, remaking hand-drawn cartoons into CG cartoons and calling them NOT animated. Weird, but it's important for some filmmakers to avoid the taint of animation.
What this proves more than anything else is that "live-action" and "animation" are interchangeable these days. The audience just wants to be involved and entertained. I mean, since super hero movies and related intellectual property have large helpings of animated effects in them anyway, most differences have been erased.
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