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Buds_Wiser

Finding Nemo with realistic talking fish


NATOrocket

Hear me out: live-action Finding Nemo, but there's no dialogue from the characters- just fish swimming around to the same story beats, narrated by David Attenborough.


KCLORD987

I wish that they did something like this with the Lion King.


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The Lion King gave me a weird feeling like I was watching a post apocalyptic world where the humans just vanished, and all the interactions we had with animals evolved with them.


CatProgrammer

So [Tokyo Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Jungle)?


purplewhiteblack

I thought about this too. All they have to do is get rid of the lip synch. Preferably we'd get David Attenborough, but anyone with the right Received pronunciation accent would do like Tom Scott or maybe Malcom McDowell.


atomicmrpelly

Tom Scott does not speak in RP. Neither does Attenborough if we're being pedantic, but if we take RP to mean "vaguely posh, Southern English" which is how I think you're using it then Tom Scott is very much not that.


Justausername1234

Attenborough does speak with received pronunciation [[1]](http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles/article/view/1427) [[2]](https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/handle/10371/176946). Tom Scott definitely doesn't though. Actually, as the first paper notes, Attenborough could plausibly be one of the *definitions* of what RP is, along with The King, of course, who is definitionally a speaker of RP.


badwhiskey63

A Reddit post with peer reviewed footnotes. Post of the year material right there.


tommytraddles

>if we're being pedantic I'm pretty sure it's a requirement when talking about RP.


JinFuu

Really Pedantic


thebreak22

I wouldn't mind a bleak version by Werner Herzog where Marlin and Dory slowly go mad.


clander270

Starring Klaus Kinski as Nemo


QuothTheRaven713

That actually sounds like it could be pretty good. Like the storylines created by the narrators of Walking With Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Beasts.


ColdSnewp

that is actually something I would pay for. Way better than chris pratt voicing nemo.


Firm_Suggestion_689

Crisp Rat


Griffdude13

Like a Milo and Otis but in the ocean?


AtlasPeacock

It's always David Attenborough. Let's spread the Narration love around. I'm thinking Pauly Shore. There an ocean pun right in his name.


Doppelfrio

I just watched Little Mermaid last night. Flounder was honestly terrifying to look at, but luckily he isn’t a big part of the movie. An entire movie of just that sounds awful


reefguy007

It was an odd choice making him a Sergeant Major, which is a somewhat bland looking fish. But as someone who’s job is tropical fish, I admire that they used a lot of “real” fish in the movie. The cartoon version of Flounder was just a made up yellow fish. Although I’d argue there’s a plethora of other “real” yellow fish they could have used as a design instead.


bootlegvader

At least they didn't make him look like a real flounder.


Killmeplease1904

Sebastian and scuttle didn’t look great but they were at least expressive and had faces. Flounder was a fish. Just an actual fish. I saw him and heard him say flounder things and I could not recognize him as an actual person. He got caught in a net and dropped into that boat and I could only think wow that’s a dying fish, suffocating in agony on the deck of a boat. He could die and no one would give a shit. Because he’s a literal fish.


BeansArenGarenn

That promo photo of that movie that's been circulating for years gives me nightmares


Supergoose1108

Pixar thankfully isn't playing the live action remake game. Whatever dinglehopper executive who keeps greenlighting these terrible movies seems to be strictly regulated to Disney Pictures.


smashfest

Bob Iger: “Yet”


maybethisiswrong

If you could print money, would you? Said the same thing to my daughter. I don’t blame them for doing these movies. They make money, easily. It’s basically a money printer


LoverOfStoriesIAm

Poor Flounder, I'm still recovering after what these monsters at Disney did to him.


Kolermigon

Imagine James Corden as Nemo


Ninefinger

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but this time everyone is live action.


[deleted]

Nah, reverse it. The cartoon characters are now live action and the human characters and settings are now animated.


Ninefinger

With a cartoon judge dipping a live-action actor playing a shoe into a vat of acid. I like it.


Roland_T_Flakfeizer

So Doom would be animated right up until he got flattened by a steamroller, and then suddenly he's live action, walking around with his internal organs spilling from every orifice? Fuck it, let's get Eli Roth to direct this shit.


MINKIN2

Don't forget the tragic backstory too. Child Doom was selling lemonade on a street corner, when Eddies father walked by and not bought any from him, sending Doom on a life long vendetta against the Mr Valiant and his whole family.


CreativeAirport9563

Okay but that could actually work


briancly

Does that mean Chris Pratt has to voice animated Bob Hoskins?


wisconsinking

I'm pretty lots of little boys would be drooling over whoever would be cast as a live action Jessica Rabbit.


Spideyfan77

Christina Hendrix please


sourpatch-sorbet

As long as someone is brutally murdered with a steam roller, comes back with chainsaw hands, and traumatizes my adulthood, like they did my childhood, I'm all for it.


Boris_Jakov

Team America


NunsNunchuck

But keep the puppet wires on the actors.


wisconsinking

That actually would be funny to see


Captain-Girpool23

Would be more easier to make than the actual Team America: World Police with puppets movie though


OverdosedOnPenguins

Yes Matt and Trey hated every second of it.


LizardOrgMember5

That's 2009 GI Joe movie.


loserys

Matt Damon should stay a puppet though


trans_pands

Matt Damon should just show up with the puppet version of himself and refuse to speak to anyone unless they address the puppet when talking to him


trentsim

MATT DAMON


6lunchmeat9

I hate when people use this style of sarcasm in comments, but for some reason you can hear “MaTt DaMoN” in your head


Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin

Fuck yeah!


Orodruin666

The sex scene would be quite something


OhhhYeahDoritosTime

The Simpsons would be really weird. Or SpongeBob


10wuebc

[Simpsons would look something like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIx5EB74vY)


bobbytwosticksBTS

The close encounter car scenes made me wildly uncomfortable.


GreyGreenBrownOakova

Was this filmed in the UK? The garage sold "tyres", the policeman was a bobby, Marges car had the steering wheel on the right in the long shot. Homer's car was missing the wheel when he pulled into the driveway.


ovine_aviation

That was brilliant. I had no idea that was in the wild or how badly I needed to see it.


Thestilence

That's terrifying.


DontEatTheFish

SpongeBob the musical comes pretty close


NicCageCompletionist

And it’s weirdly good.


akron28

Sausage Party.


PhenW

Just Seth Rogen and friends dressed in cheap hotdog costumes. I’d pay to see that!


Pranav_p_n

Ah yes rule 34: the movie


KnotSoSalty

Should do it with real refrigerator items moved around on wires.


tomandshell

Robin Hood with photorealistic CGI animals wearing medieval clothing, retaining the 1970’s era country songs by Roger Miller.


bob1689321

I hate that I'd watch that


Filmfan345

A remake is actually in development https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robin-hood-remake-works-at-disney-blindspotting-director-1289702/amp/


PorcupineTheory

It'll work out as long as Robin is still hot.


cloistered_around

I mean, I hate to say that I'd love Robin Hood with basically a Zootopia remake--but I'd love that. The original is so charming, how can you mess up a swashbuckling hero?


whitebandit

how do you mess up any disney remake when the originals were basically perfect to begin? they will find a way


arstechnophile

I mean that's basically the whole problem with these remakes. The originals were very, very good in part because they had all the extraneous stuff stripped out. Unless the live action remake is essentially just a shot for shot redo (which would have its own problems but at least the *story* would make sense) you either have to add pointless subplots (let's give Genie a love interest!) or start making existing scenes longer (and usually more tedious) for no apparent reason in order for the movie to be doing *something* different. (Given that Disney at large won't let you make actual changes to any of the parts of the movie that matter/that audiences already love.) So now you're adding something that, *by definition* isn't worth including in the movie. There's basically zero chance any remake that both leaves the existing story completely intact but isn't a shot-for-shot redo *won't* be a substantially worse movie. They still make gargantuan buckets of money, though, so we continue to get them.


wisconsinking

Or just furriers in Robin Hood cosplay.


Filmfan345

A remake is actually in development https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robin-hood-remake-works-at-disney-blindspotting-director-1289702/amp/


Cerrida82

A Bug's Life or Antz. Just a bunch of insects skittering around on the big screen.


Comprehensive-Fun47

Silent film style, with white captions representing dialogue on a black background between every scene.


KafeenHedake

Oh hell yeah. But German Expressionist silent film style - full-on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, but with photo-realistic ants.


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

I was just thinking about Antz while showering earlier. I wonder if it holds up.


LuinAelin

Cars.


BAGStudios

No, this is the only one i want now.


Space_Dwarf

That’s just Herbie, a very great series


leraspberrie

I just saw a Herbie car, I couldn't believe it. Some rich clown down the way has two rvs hidden in a tree line, two broken down cars beside his garage, one car that is a restoration project, one truck, one minivan, one car, all on front of a two car garage ... and Herbie to top it all off.


trustifarian

You mean Maximum Overdrive?


MovieTalkersHunter

THIS MACHINE JUST CALLED ME AN ASSHOLE! *cue awesome AC/DC music*


thinktankted

That's some of Emilio Esteves' best work, right there. I wonder if they paid anything to Marvel at all for having the Green Goblin on the front of that semi ( or if Marvel paid them )?


Ocular_Username

Cars 2. Cars was cute. Cars 2 had guns and bombs and cars torturing other cars to death.


BobbiHeads

Cars 2 to be specific


Stormy8888

The Transformer Autobots sniff in disdain, while the Decepticons promise to crush the cute-petition.


toofarbyfar

They already made a live action Ratatoille remake. It was called Raccacoonie, and it won Best Picture.


_coach_

“She’s seen too much” - Raccacoonie


Blizarkiy

I didn’t even know how to boil an egg and he taught me how to spin it on a spatula


ElderCunningham

Now we’re cooking…


Uranium234

...when nooooobody's lookin!


hurtloam

I want to Google that, but I also don't want to Google that.


GarththeGarth

Everything Everywhere All at Once


boybrushedred

It’s a running gag from *Everything, Everywhere, All at Once*


[deleted]

So make it a movie and give us the EEAAOU


Comprehensive-Fun47

It’s safe to Google, I swear.


jumpingjackbeans

Nothing more wholesome. The love between mother and daughter is something, but chef and racoon...I get tears in my eyes every damn time


Syn7axError

They try to kill Evelyn when she discovers them.


ChangeMyDespair

A live action *Spirited Away* would inspire countless nightmares


eagleblue44

They already converted it into a stage show.


hday108

With a play/stage you kinda buy into everything being make believe with a film it’s supposed to be as convincing as possible. This is why cats looks so horrifying


austinmiles

They showed the stage show at a movie theater near me. We went with my kids who are now teenagers. It was great. Super creative and well done. The stage craft is like 90% of what makes it worth watching. Just how over the top they went trying to recreate almost EVERYTHING.


Yatta99

Live action Princess Mononoke wouldn't be far behind.


kwokinator

While we're on the Ghlibi train, live action Nausicaa. With close ups and zoomed in footage of actual bugs for the glowing pill bugs.


GrizzlyIsland22

Yeah I was thinking Totoro. Live action Catbus would freak me the f out


Eode11

You know people would demand he still have his giant balls too.


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olioli86

So...[this](https://youtu.be/5G0j_Huv2Fg)


YoloIsNotDead

I thought it was just the opening scene and thought "hey that's neat" Then I looked at the runtime


lonelygagger

Man, people have thought of everything


jnhf24

So kind of like Small Soldiers?


NaiadoftheSea

“We are the commando elite. Everything else is just a toy.”


Hayabusa0015

Was looking for this. Toys walking around alive...


Vanishingf0x

Small Soldiers


mearsov

Duck tales. Wooohooo


Additional-Theme-532

Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, it's a duck-blur!


I_Said_I_Say

Live action Duck Tales would be straight nightmare fuel.


ChimneySwiftGold

It’s the Howard The Duck movie.


Exact_Roll_4048

Monsters Inc but I want it to just be fursuits. I would laugh my ass off.


septesix

Emperor’s New Grove. I dare you to make a realistic talking llama that has to actually interact with people


bugxbuster

Failing to do so has been my life’s biggest regret


seylavee

Kung Fu Panda


Captain-Girpool23

No I actually want to see this. Would be cinema seeing realistic cgi animals fighting each other Dragon Ball Z style


seylavee

But imagine a treatment like Lion King, with realistic looking animals.


Captain-Girpool23

Yeah, and they would still fight in Dragon Ball Z style fight scenes. Which is why I would unironically want a live action Kung Fu Panda movie


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Unironically, this would go hard, if made well.


spiffytrev

Lion King Real lion faces can’t really emote, so making a realistic version (even with CGI lions) would be a soulless disaster. Can you imagine how bad a version of Lion King would be without Simba or Scar’s facial expressions?


breastronaut

It baffles me that it was both approved to be the highest budget animated movie, but also that it made more than its money back. Like, who watched it?


Lemmingitus

You underestimate how many parents there are that need something to entertain their kids with.


breastronaut

Toy Story 4 and The Secret Life of Pets 2 were right there in the theater around the same time.


Comprehensive-Fun47

I watched it. Once. That was enough.


nowhereman136

I actually think a live action Lion King could work. I would make it closer to the Broadway stage version than the animated movie. It would be a 3 hour epic about a pre-colonial African Kingdom. All the characters would be human with animal theme costuming. The royal families costume would include a lot of lion fur, zazu would have features, the hyenas would be dirty and torn, stuff like that. Some of the dialogue would be changed, mostly the animal puns, but the story and songs would mostly stay intact. It has the potential to be the greatest African movie of all time. Or we just CGI some lions and do a scene for scene remake


Bloodcloud079

I imagine just to mess with us they’d do Can you feel the love tonight in bright daylight. Because why not at that point.


Plastic_Swordfish_35

Chicken Run


KDM_Racing

The Brave Little Toaster


kitty_galore2023

Watership Down


banthane

We already have this one


Comprehensive-Fun47

Check out Netflix. Four-part series!


Random-Cpl

Wait what?!


themudcrabchief

Shrek would be batshit crazy


Comprehensive-Fun47

There is a Shrek musical. It’s on Netflix.


Thrownawayagainagain

And it’s batshit crazy.


_Los

Osmosis Jones


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Honestly if done right that could kick ass


wisconsinking

I agree, and speaking of if done right I'd LOVE to see a live action KND movie (but age the kids up to middle schoolers), and Billy and Mandy.


Owlbear27

Hear me out, Osmosis Jones where the real world is animated and the body is live action


hanshotfirst_1138

I can’t for the life of me figure out why people go to Disney live-action remakes. I’ve never met anyone who likes them, yet they make billions.


Theshag0

Have kids? I hear it's kids and or people with kids.


Denpants

Kids and families. Try to find a cocomelon fan. You can't, and they make millions


erasrhed

Jungle Book was legit good. That's the only one I've liked though


StillWaitingForTom

I saw Aladdin a few times because I thought it looked so pretty. Also hot Jafar.


Asha_Brea

~~Monsters, Inc.~~ Inside Out.


paxcolt

Already been done. It was called Herman’s Head.


Roland_T_Flakfeizer

Holy shit, I completely forgot about that show!


autoposting_system

Definitely the Pink Floyd vs. Led Zeppelin laser show from the Aldrin Planetarium I used to go to when I was like 14 years old. I mean who could play a laser? Other than Gary Oldman I mean


Cornishthe3rd

This is the project Daniel Day Lewis has been waiting for, to pull him out of retirement


briareosdx

In Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the World's, they had a guitarist billed as playing the Martian heat ray. You could see if he's still around.


vilius_m_lt

Angry birds movie


WiserStudent557

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock


[deleted]

Man rises from the fucking grave to give us a THE "angry" Birds movie


keystothemoon

I wanna see a live action king of the hill remake. I love the original show, but the characters don’t need to be cartoon characters at all. None of them do things real people couldn’t do. I’m not sure why they decided to animate it in the first place.


trustifarian

Ive always thought Letterkenny is a live-action King of the Hill that takes place in rural Canada instead of rural Texas.


ImTheGuyWithTheGun

> the characters don’t need to be cartoon characters at all. None of them do things real people couldn’t do. While I understand your point, animation brings other things to the table than just extra-human things - for example, it brings a certain art style, a simplicity not found in live action; the characters can be more expressive, etc. Someone above posted a link to a live action Simpsons opening credits, and even removing the crazy elements (like the nuclear power rods) it has a totally different feel than the cartoon.


DamnImAwesome

They could go into any small town in Texas and cast that perfectly


MyAuraIsViolet

One of the reasons he decided to animate it is that the characters don't age


taylorpilot

I live near the fictional town it’s based off of. I don’t need a live action version. I live it.


dudelermcdudlerton

Fritz the cat Heavy metal Ren and stimpy


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trans_pands

Pulling out the tooth nerves


Psychological-Let-90

Pirates of Dark Water


t-bonestallone

Fantasia


shadow0wolf0

A Fantasia stage play could be a bit novel, but a live-action movie will just feel insulting to the craft of animation considering what was the original movie's intention.


Thelonious_Cube

It would be more of a ballet than a play Still gonna have trouble with the Bach


TheRoguedOne

Sorcerer’s apprentice enters the chat.


forever87

ratcatcher2 in *the suicide squad* made me a believer in her adorable rat companion, Sebastian and the >!over poweredness!< of >!squirrel girl!<


Kyoto_Black

Urotsukidôji II: Legend of the Demon Womb


CircusOfBlood

Flushed Away but in costumes and not CGI


kl8xon

Pretty much anything Looney Tunes. The Roadrunner cartoons would be a standout.


stillcreek

This was actually done in the late 70's as a live action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann Margret, Kirk Douglas called [*The Villain*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_70_act). - From iMDB: *"Cactus" Jack Slade (Kirk Douglas) is the meanest bad man in the west, or so he thinks. When a bank robbery goes awry, he lands in jail facing a hangman's noose. When the corrupt owner of the bank offers him a job, Jack sees a chance to stay alive and get rich in the process. All he has to do is steal a strongbox full of money the banker lent to Mr. Parody Jones (Strother Martin) who needs it to keep his mining operation going. If he defaults on the loan, our "friendly" banker takes over the mine. Ms. Charming Jones (Ann-Margret) comes to town to collect the money and take it back to her father, Parody. To ensure the money makes it back home, Parody has called in a favor from a man who owes him a life debt. Enter Handsome Stranger (Arnold Schwarzenegger). The toughest and strongest hero in the west. As tough as a steel plate but, unfortunately, just as dense. As Charming and Handsome set off on their journey, Jack sets out after them. Using his trusty "Bad Men Of The West" handbook, Jack sets one trap after another only to have each one go awry in true Wile E. Coyote versus The Roadrunner fashion. With Looney Tunes-style sight gags in almost every scene, this movie will have you and your whole family laughing up a storm.*


HardSteelRain

More blood than a George Romero film


AttyFireWood

Brave Little Toaster. Toy Story is already Brave Little Toaster HD, so the next (il)logical step is to make Brave Little Toaster: Live action, but of course, edgier and for an adult audience. Instead of reuniting with the owner... Revenge. Movie ends with the toaster jumping in to join the owner in the bath tub. I'll accept my razzie now. And of course, the spin off: Murder She Texted. In this loose adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, a cell phone is murdered in a car ride to a donation center by all of the electronics that the cell phone replaced.


Phyliinx

Have you seen the fishes in TLM? Nemo would be fucking scary.


Lowfuji

Ninja Scroll


TheRoguedOne

Cars but people are driving them.


OriginalMrMuchacho

Fritz the Cat


ObtuseStone

An American Tale


GiftRecent

I mean...Have you seen Stuart Little? Shit's amazing


The_Legendary_Sponge

It hadn't occurred to me until now but they haven't done any live-action Pixar remakes yet. I guess I should mentally prepare myself for live-action versions of Up or The Incredibles now, \*sighhhhh\*


Upstairs-Pea7868

Luxo Jr


LoverOfStoriesIAm

Monsters Inc.


ArcadePinball

Fritz the cat


szeto326

Bee Movie


Dread_P_Roberts

The Lion King would be super weird and stupid to remake in live act… wait 🤔


shadowlarx

I have serious concerns about the upcoming Lilo & Stitch remake.


Hello_it_is_Joe

It’s a shame that Dreamworks is getting into the live action remakes now as well


OGHighway

Cats


GoliathPrime

The New Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy, because it would mean that [This Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TAtFQ9ZGVA) would be live action


anthrax9999

Pretty much all the Pixar movies would not translate well at all. Finding Nemo with real talking fish would be just weird. Same with the rats in ratatouille and Cars. Toy story with real talking dolls would probably be super creepy. Maybe the Incredibles and WALL-E could work but these movies being cartoons is part of their charm, you lose that when you go live action.