You would possibly know him as Disney’s most iconic determine, however a Canadian horror director has different concepts.
The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse entered the general public area on Jan. 1, and Jamie Bailey and his workforce have been fast to launch a trailer that day for the upcoming slasher film Mickey’s Mouse Entice.
Requested why he would make a film corrupting the beloved youngsters’s character, Bailey’s response was: “Why not?”
“It’s actually such an iconic character, and we felt there was type of a pent-up viewers for this,” he stated. “And we have been confirmed proper. We simply can not imagine the quantity of responses we’ve gotten again since we launched the trailer. It’s simply been wild.”
The well-known mouse made his first look within the 1928 quick movie Steamboat Willie, and solely that model of him is now within the public area — not the gloved, big-eared model of Mickey that individuals know and love as we speak.
Bailey stated Mickey’s Mouse Entice was partially impressed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, a slasher film launched in early 2023 after the copyright expired for the unique model of the beloved anthropomorphic bear.
Bailey, who’s initially from Glace Bay, N.S., and now resides in Toronto, stated placing a gritty twist on characters usually linked to childhood nostalgia is certain to get individuals speaking.
“Simply the novelty of it, it piques everybody’s curiosity proper off the bat,” he stated. “Seeing the one that you love childhood character going round murdering individuals, it’s simply type of enjoyable.”
‘Seeing the one that you love childhood character going round murdering individuals, it’s simply type of enjoyable,’ says ‘Mickey’s Mouse Entice’ director Jamie Bailey.
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Mickey’s Mouse Entice, directed from a screenplay written by Simon Phillips, tells the story of a gaggle of pals celebrating the lead character’s birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese-esque venue one evening. Terror ensues when somebody will get possessed by Mickey Mouse and begins killing attendees.
“That’s just about all it is advisable to know,” Bailey stated.
The film was shot in September 2023 at Funhaven, an amusement centre in Ottawa. Bailey stated they wished to get the filming completed early so they might launch the trailer as quickly because the copyright expired.
“We thought it will get some consideration, and it positive did,” he stated.
There isn’t any set launch date but as Bailey continues to be in talks with distributors, however he hopes to have it launched by March.
Jamie Bailey’s manufacturing firm is in talks with distributors, however hopes the movie might be launched by March.
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Bailey stated he’s not overly involved with Disney taking authorized motion, although he acknowledged that as an enormous conglomerate, it may squash his manufacturing firm “like a bug.”
“I’m completely keen to direct the following three Marvel films at no cost, Disney, should you don’t sue us,” Bailey provided. “It’s a good deal.”
Disney didn’t reply to a media request asking about its response to the upcoming horror movie, however stated in a press release to The Related Press that it’s going to, “in fact, proceed to guard our rights within the extra fashionable variations of Mickey Mouse and different works that stay topic to copyright.”
Utilizing characters a ‘no-brainer’
With plenty of youngsters’s characters having entered the general public area this 12 months, like Pooh’s buddy Tigger and the never-aging Peter Pan, and others set to have their copyright expire within the subsequent decade — equivalent to Disney darlings Donald Duck and Pluto — Bailey stated the time is ripe to reimagine these characters in numerous methods.
The horror style is a very good option to discover these characters’ darker sides, he stated.
“It’s the one style of movie which you can make and not using a massive star. The style itself is the star,” he stated.
“So tying it up with a childhood character like Mickey Mouse … it’s type of a no brainer. I feel the market would possibly get saturated with it, and it’ll actually come all the way down to what ones are good or not.”
The movie takes place in an amusement arcade throughout a party gone awry.
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Whether or not or not the movie is seen nearly as good has but to be determined. On-line reactions to the trailer’s launch have been combined – however Bailey stated any publicity is sweet publicity, “particularly for a film like this.”
“The extra those that discuss it, the higher,” he stated. “I assume that lots of people will likely be hate-watching it, that’s advantageous too — simply so long as they watch it.”
Whereas Bailey’s Mickey Mouse horror movie will be the first, it received’t be the final. One other horror flick that includes the Steamboat Willie character, which has but to be titled, was introduced Tuesday from director Steven LaMorte.
And a Steamboat Willie-impressed survival horror sport named Infestation: Origins is ready to launch later this 12 months.
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