One in every of Disney’s reported live-action remakes shouldn’t be shifting ahead — no less than in the interim.
In January 2020, Disney introduced that it could produce a live-action remake of Bambi, following within the footsteps of The Lion King and The Jungle Guide‘s utilization of photo-realistic CGI animation. Sarah Polley was connected to direct, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer on board as screenwriters. Nevertheless, there have been no updates on the challenge in years.
Robertson-Dworet is now co-creator of Prime Video’s Fallout — turning into a two-time Emmy nominee from this — and was requested about Bambi whereas selling the hit video game-to-TV adaptation in an interview with The Direct. “I’ve not came upon in no less than 5 years a single replace on the Bambi film,” stated Robertson-Dworet.
She additionally referred to as Fallout “an intensely full-time job,” admitting: “So I’ve been off it since I began on Fallout, and haven’t even sort of checked in, to be completely sincere with you, that is true.” Nonetheless, seemingly, nobody from Disney has checked in together with her both. Polley and Beer have additionally each reportedly left the challenge because it was introduced.
With Fallout renewed for season 3, Robertson-Dworet seemingly would not return to Bambi even when Disney did transfer ahead with it, as she went on to say: “I am unhappy to say, I am not the suitable particular person. I am at all times rooting for a Bambi film… My consideration is so totally taken up by this that I am simply behind on the time of what is going on on on Bambi.“
The Walt Disney Firm has steadfastly continued remaking its animated classics into the 2020s, and there have been each main successes and flops. Specifically, the latest huge flop of 2025’s Snow White means that remaking the oldest of Disney’s motion pictures will finish in failure. Bambi was launched in 1942, 5 years after the unique Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Disney quickly shelved its plans to remake Tangled after Snow White‘s theatrical launch, seemingly believing that curiosity within the Disney Princess remakes or remakes on the whole was in decline. However after the live-action Lilo & Sew grossed greater than $1 billion in 2025, the corporate began work on Tangled once more, just lately asserting the casting of the principle characters.
Moreover, the live-action remake of Moana (primarily based on the animated film that solely got here out in 2016) is slated for this summer season. Additionally value noting is that the 2019 remake of Dumbo (primarily based on a 1941 film) was one other flop. These latest tendencies point out that Disney will simply abandon Bambi, focusing extra on reboots of its Twenty first-century movies.
Satirically, the horror reimagining Bambi: The Reckoning got here out in 2025, even scoring a “contemporary” 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. Disney might at all times return to Bambi, however they’d apparently should discover a new inventive staff.
Bambi is offered to stream on Disney+
- Launch Date
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August 14, 1942
- Runtime
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70 minutes
- Director
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James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand
- Writers
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Felix Salten, Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, Vernon Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg
