Disney to Make Live-Action Feature Film Adaptation of WINNIE THE POOH

Deadline reports exclusively that Disney will make a live action feature adaptation of the animated children's classic WINNIE THE POOH.

Alex Ross Perry, the writer/director of the Sundance indie Listen Up Philip will pen the movie which follow Pooh's best friend Christopher Robin, now an adult and returning to THE HUNDRED Acre Wood setting of A.A. Milne's beloved stories. The news follows a recent announcement that Disney tasked David Lowery to co-write and direct a live-action feature of the animated film Pete's Dragon.

Walt Disney Productions first licensed certain film and other rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters, stories, and trademarks from the estate of A. A. Milne in 1961.

In 1977, Disney released the animated feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, introducing a new character named Gopher (which Gopher acknowledges by proclaiming, "I'm not in the book, you know"). The film comprises three segments originally released as separate featurettes: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day(1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). The 1977 release featured new bridging material and a new ending, as it had been Walt Disney's original intention to make a feature.[citation needed] A fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, was released in 1983.

The live-action series Welcome to Pooh Corner ran on the Disney Channel from 1983 to 1986. In 1988, Disney launched the animated series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which aired from 1988 to 1991 with a total of 83 episodes. Pooh made an appearance with Tigger in the anti-drug TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

In 2000, Disney released the feature film The Tigger Movie in which the character of Tigger played the leading role. Due to its success, two more feature-length Pooh movies based on other characters were released to theaters: Piglet's Big Movie in 2003 and Pooh's Heffalump Movie in 2005. Pooh also made appearances in episodes of the animated series House of Mouse.

Playhouse Disney, along with Shadow Projects, produced a puppet TV series for preschoolers, called The Book of Pooh, coordination production of ages kids with family aired, which aired from 2001 to 2003. Playhouse Disney produced another series for preschoolers, called My Friends Tigger & Pooh, which aired from 2007 to 2010. Pooh also makes a cameo appearance in the DreamWorks animated film, Bee Movie along with Piglet.

Top Disney Movies Winnie the Pooh was released in 2011, and 2014 The Disney Channel Series: Tales of Friendship with Winnie the Pooh was announced in Playhouse Disney for preschoolers kids produced TV series My Friends Tigger and Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh which coordination aired from American released this 2014. [source]

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