Trailer Talk Thursday: Winnie The Pooh, The Eagle and the final Tron Legacy Trailer
Winnie the Pooh has been part of the Disney universe for a long time now. So much so that people forget that he existed before those first short films were ever released. He was created by writer A.A Milne back in 1926 as a character in a collection of short stories that he used to tell to his son. He focused it around a bear named Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and thusly titled it after our main hero. The name came from a bear named Winnie and a swan named Pooh. It was later adapted into multiple short films that were created and animated by Disney Animation and the rest is pretty much history.
The sad thing though is like all successful Disney franchises at the time, they wanted to milk the living daylights out of it so as time went on after the short films were released they started milking the series for all it was worth. They hit a jack pot in the mid to late 80s when they turned Pooh’s escapades into an animated series called the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The series was so widely popular that they turned it into multiple motion pictures, all of which were pretty good. The key though to Pooh’s longevity and why so many people loved him was that he appealed to not only kids but adults. The films and the show never talked down to the audience instead grasping that inner child we all have. But sadly in the mid 2000s and all the way up until this year Pooh became fodder for toddlers and slowly faded out of existence (the latest iteration was recently cancelled) save for a few books and greeting cards.
Now Pooh is back however with all new stories and it looks really good. Handled by veterans of Disney animation and original music from Hans Zimmer, this version looks to re-capture that magic that it once had.
Here is the trailer-
I think it looks pretty good. If you do Pooh well and put a lot of effort into it, it’ll show and people will come.
Next up is The Eagle-
There isn’t as much to say about this film other than it’s done by the same people who did Last King of Scotland (Academy Award Winner Kevin Macdonald and BAFTA winner Jeremy Brock) and it’s based on the 1954 novel “The Eagle of the Ninth.” If you see any similarities to the recent Centurion, you’re not wrong. But what’s interesting is that this film is from the perspective of people RELATED to the Ninth Legion. In Centurion it showed what happened to the legion and in this it’s about the son of one of the legion members who goes to look for him and find out what happened to him and if he was killed to retrieve his Aquila (or Eagle standard…hence the title).
Here is the trailer-
