After Friday's posting about the 1992 development of the Roald Dahl Gremlins project at Disney TV Animation, Jerry Rees sent FLIP a bunch of images of the development art used in the pitch. Enjoy!
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Disney and Dahl's "Gremlins" Redux
In 1992, I got to work on three great projects: The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Goofy Movie, and one that was never produced, Gremlins; not the Joe Dante Gremlins, but the Roald Dahl / Walt Disney one.
You cartoon buffs out there recall the Bugs Bunny shorts from World War II featuring little gremlins who tear apart Bugs' warplane in flight? They were based on a short story by Roald Dahl done during the war for Disney Studios. Disney was developing a feature from the story, but could not secure the complete rights, partially owned by the British Air Ministry, so he mothballed the project. Dahl would release it in book form using Disney development art as illustrations.
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