Bambi’s character will be the next to abandon children’s stories to become a cinematic nightmare. According to Entertainment Weeklydirector Scott Jeffrey will transform the endearing deer into a “vicious desert killing machine.”
Right now, Bambi: The Reckoning It is in the production phase. According to the director, it is a large-scale reinvention of the popular Disney story. “The film will be an incredibly dark retelling of the 1928 story that we all know and love. […] Get ready for a rabid Bambi!”
But apparently this is more than just a play on words. According to the description of Bambi: The Reckoningthe script will show a whole new version of the story. “Bambi seeks revenge against the hunter who shot his mother”, Explain. “He will find it and start a long chain of murders.” For Jeffrey it is a way to reconstruct a “more powerful and fearsome” version of the original tale.
Bambi: The Reckoning or how tales become horror stories
Bambi: The Reckoning is the latest project based on beloved characters to hit the public domain in the United States in recent years. A few months ago, the news that Pooh: Blood & Honey would transform the remembered children’s tale into a shocked horror story. Much more when the director, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, insisted that he would turn the classic story into “a terrifying scenario.” This is the first work derived from the AA Milne saga, which on January 1, 2022 ceased to belong to Disney.
Now, Frake-Waterfield returns as producer of this new version of Bambi which promises, of course, spilled guts and blood. There are few details about the plot, beyond the fact that it will be one of the premieres scheduled for the year 2023. Also, “that It will be a full-fledged horror movie”.
However, the director of Bambi: The Reckoning he already plans how he will delve into a fearsome story. always according to ewthe script will have twists “and the disturbing atmosphere” of the film The Ritual of 2017. “It will be a tense and anguishing nightmare, which will give a new meaning to Bambi’s pain,” explained the director.
The end of fairy tales has come
The copyright release of several of Disney’s iconic intellectual properties is resulting in a unique subgenre. All the more so when, in the years to come, a handful of his most iconic works will enter the public domain in 2024. This includes Mickey Mouse and several of his best-known fairy tales.
Will the old children’s characters be transformed into a saga of violent murderers for a certain exploitation horror cinema? For now, Bambi: The Reckoning makes it clear that there is a long way to go in unfamiliar terrain. Something that the most intrepid directors and screenwriters plan to take advantage of.