Winnie the Pooh horror movie to be released

[willbo]

Winnie the Pooh — the popular children's character with a belly full of honey and a heart full of gold — is about to embark on a journey into the horror genre, much to the shock of many. After the character created by author A.A. Milne entered the public domain earlier this year, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield has taken the golden opportunity to place the memorable character in a slasher movie, with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

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I reckon the estate of A.A. Milne must be comprehensively delighted with this.  Why would they or Disney let the rights slip into the public domain?

I wonder how many young children will see it by mistake.  Hopefully absolutely fucking loads.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Winnie the Shit

[willbo]

As an example, Waterfield explained the set-up behind the still (above) of a girl relaxing in a jacuzzi with Pooh and Piglet ominously standing nearby. "She's having a good time and then Pooh and Piglet appear behind her, chloroform her, take her out of the jacuzzi and then kind of drive a car over her head," Waterfield said. "It's scary but there's also funny bits because there's shots of Winnie the Pooh in a car and seeing him with his little ears behind the wheel and like slowly going over there [to kill her.]"

[MojoJojo]

I reckon the estate of A.A. Milne must be comprehensively delighted with this.  Why would they or Disney let the rights slip into the public domain?

How would they stop them going into the public domain?

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How would they stop them going into the public domain?

I dunno, how is copyright normally renewed by an estate or corporation?

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Disney's own version remains within copyright, so this is where there's some complexity.

Many of the original characters in A.A. Milne's 1926 book Winnie the Pooh are now in the public domain, opening the floodgates for just anybody to adapt the characters — so long as they don't infringe on Disney's interpretation of them. "We've tried to be extremely careful," Waterfield told Variety. "We knew there was this line between that, and we knew what their copyright was and what they've done. So we did as much as we could to make sure [the film] was only based on the 1926 version of it."

Since Disney's version is basically an animation of the original book illustrations, it's tricky to imagine how one could stay truthful to the 1926 version without stepping on Disney's toes.

I suspect that most public domain versions will stick to using only the character names and approximate animal types.  Which isn't what I would call being truthful to the 1926 version.

[willbo]

I suppose it's not really different to the various porn/horror versions of Cinderella, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, etc out there. We'll just have to get used to the fact that Pooh is more of a general myth character now like those. I guess we'll be seeing crappy low budget versions for kids too.

[MojoJojo]

Yeah it does get a bit complicated, but the basic answer is you can't extend copyright beyond lobbying the government to change he law. Sherlock Holmes is out of copyright, except for 10 short stories (and then only in the US). From those 10 short stories the Doyle estate claim they have copyright on Holmes being emphatic or showing emotion.

Isn't there lots of stuff the Pooh books with it Tigger and Eeyore being manic depression and stuff? David Lynch should do an adaption.

[beanheadmcginty]

I hope he shits on someone's chest in this.

[willbo]

this has been too long without an "adult interpretation"

[thenoise]

Isn't there lots of stuff the Pooh books with it Tigger and Eeyore being manic depression and stuff?

Pooh has an eating disorder and Christopher Robin is an incel loner whose only friends seem to be stuffed animals with mental problems.
Piglet seems reasonably sane, if a little dim.

[C_Larence]

Pooh has an eating disorder and Christopher Robin is an incel loner whose only friends seem to be stuffed animals with mental problems.
Piglet seems reasonably sane, if a little dim.

Piglet has anxiety

[Ron Maels Moustache]

This sort of thing is the ultimate Shit4Cunts, isn't it. Just another shitty, no-budget, banged-out horror film trading off a recognisable property, with the only twist being they bought some cheap masks of Pooh and friends for the actors to wear for this one. Just as bad as that Five Nights At Freddie's knock-off with Cage the other year. Or that Banana Splits one.

It's just lazy, cynical, unimaginative wank and anyone who makes or enjoys this sort of thing is a fucking moron.

[idunnosomename]

all Christopher Robin's animal friends have often being observed as embodying mental disorders

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80580

Except Eeyore, he's the picture of wellness!

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It's just lazy, cynical, unimaginative wank

But everybody knows this is the best kind of wank.

[Glyn]

The Disney Store already did this with their Ed Gein range a few years ago

[Noodle Lizard]

Ha ha imagine

[Dex Sawash]

this has been too long without an "adult interpretation"

You just know Rabbit is laying on the floor inside waiting to for a pooh to drop, the dirty old bollocks

[The Mollusk]

Since Disney's version is basically an animation of the original book illustrations, it's tricky to imagine how one could stay truthful to the 1926 version without stepping on Disney's toes.

You could just make the film so it's entirely illustrated stills, like the original book, held up in front of the camera. Except actually, make it so the stills depict every single tiny fragment of motion in all of the characters and have them "flick" over one another in quick succession, so as to imitate real motion. Then simply have someone narrate the voices over the top. Or maybe have different people do the different voices. Oh and gotta have some music played over the top as well. Easy.

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As an example, Waterfield explained the set-up behind the still (above) of a girl relaxing in a jacuzzi with Pooh and Piglet ominously standing nearby. "She's having a good time and then Pooh and Piglet appear behind her, chloroform her, take her out of the jacuzzi and then kind of drive a car over her head," Waterfield said. "It's scary but there's also funny bits because there's shots of Winnie the Pooh in a car and seeing him with his little ears behind the wheel and like slowly going over there [to kill her.]"

Sounds like a 14 year old making a film.

[idunnosomename]

This'll be poo i reckon

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Sounds to me like someone knew their film script was rubbish but felt changing two of the characters to "Pooh" and "Piglet" would bring it publicity and notoriety.

[neveragain]

There was a Banana Splits horror movie a few years back. That was pretty bad.

[idunnosomename]

Oh my. How embarrassing.

[frajer]

Can't wait for the extended Poohniverse.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I hope Tigger gets killed.

[idunnosomename]

They probably will do a sequel. This is from one of those production companies that shits out dozens of stupid shit films every year that go straight to streaming.

They either rip something off (Jurassic Hotel, Spiders on a Plane) or make something grimdark (The Curse of Humpty Dumpty).
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0862075

The amount of publicity they got off this copyright gimmick eclipses anything else theyve ever done (even if you dig these companies are all linked and are one massive entity putting out loads of so bad-they're-bad not even really movies)

[Memorex MP3]

I dunno, how is copyright normally renewed by an estate or corporation?

They already get far too long as it is. He's nearly seventy years dead; even his granddaughter is ten years dead, like.

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They already get far too long as it is. He's nearly seventy years dead; even his granddaughter is ten years dead, like.

Maybe they should force these people when they're elderly to rewrite the entire work on what will become the headstone of their grave.  If they manage to do it before the deadline (their death and/or incapacity due to mental degradation- whichever comes sooner) then their estate gets to retain the copyright until the next relevant person's death asserts itself.