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“Enchanted 2”, “National Treasure 3 & 4”, “Prince of Persia”
Over on the Jim Hill Media Blog, the titular typist himself mentions just how much of a crush Disney has with sequels, prequels and anything they can spin-off.
According to the site, Disney not only has a string of direct-to-video sequels in the works (including, argh, “Snow Buddies”; the long-awaited umpteenth sequel to the children’s er, classic, “Air Bud”) but is already talking future chapters of films like “National Treasure”.
Says the site, But according to my sources at Disney Studios, this is just the tip of the miceberg … er … iceberg. I mean, how about those three new “Narnia” films that the Mouse is planning on making with Walden Media? Or that follow-up to “Enchanted” that Disney Feature Animation is allegedly already knocking around story ideas for. And even though “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” won’t begin shooting ’til early next month, people in Burbank are already looking ahead toward “National Treasure 3” and “National Treasure 4.”
But the House of the Mouse also has it’s sights set on the ‘next big thing’, too.
….This is why Walt Disney Pictures — in conjunction with Jerry Bruckheimer Films — is now gearing up to put a “Prince of Persia” movie into production. Because it’s thought that a film based on this hugely popular series of Ubisoft Entertainment games (Which — in theory — will be Disney’s big action-adventure release for the Summer of 2008) could then lead to a new hit series of movies for the studio.
This is also the thinking behind Disney’s recent re-acquisition of the movie rights to Edgar Rice Burrough’s “John Carter of Mars” series. With the hope that — if this project is properly developed for the screen — the 11 books in this series could then lend themselves to a hugely popular set of motion pictures..
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