For a while we’ve known that Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the horror adaptation of the classic childhood storybook by A.A. Milne, was the only the first in a long line of twisted films based on classic fairy tales. Although the sequel is slated to hit theaters later this month, earlier today it was revealed that there’s actually a plan for the new version of Pooh to team up with other familiar faces – now re-envisioned as monsters.
In a new film dubbed Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, the film will follow Winnie the Pooh as he teams up with murderous versions of figures including Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, The Mad Hatter and Sleeping Beauty. While not each character will get a film before the crossover comes out, each upcoming film will include various easter eggs linking them toward the inevitable horrifying crossover.
The film may not come out until 2025, but Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, the two companies behind the new series of monster movies, released a roadmap complete with which films come next and which ones will lead up to Poohniverse.
You can check it out below!
Besides Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, no official release dates have been provided for the next three films on the docket, Bambi: The Reckoning, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare and Pinocchio: Unstrung. But we expect that info to become available in the near future.
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Now, it goes without saying that the upcoming Winnie the Pooh adaptation is not affiliated with Disney in any way, shape, or form. But it is interesting that, even after 2018’s Christopher Robin, someone found more ways to make a darker film with those characters.
And you might be wondering, “How on Earth is this possible?” Well that’s because the characters were never even Disney’s to begin with. The character was first created by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard in the 1920s. It wasn’t until the 1960s that Disney gained exclusive access to use the characters and subsequently created numerous projects with them at the center.
However, copyright law dictates that any character or story can become public domain after either 95 years from when the original story was published or 120 years after creation (whichever comes first). Pooh debuted in 1925, so you can do the math.
