It’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed…
Two years ago, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey made headlines for being a twisted take on a beloved childhood classic. Little did we know that was only the beginning.
Several other horror adaptations of childhood classics have been announced by the same horror studio, Jagged Edge Productions, with a sequel to Blood and Honey actually slated to hit theaters for a limited time only later this month.
With the other entries in this so-called “Twisted Childhood Universe” slated to come out in the coming months, both Jagged Edge and collaborated ITN Studios have announced that it will all culminate in a crossover titled Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
Per Variety, the film will team Winnie the Pooh 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 outlet also reports that the plot for “Poohniverse” will revolve around the monsters teaming up to take on survivors of the previous films, and that there obviously won’t be any civility between the characters. That means we can expect “carnage within the group” and “epic sequences of monster vs. monster.”
Casting is to include Chambers returning as Christopher Robin, Megan Plactio as Wendy Darling, Roxanne Mckee as Xana and Lewis Santer as Tigger, with more announcements to come.
The poster, which you can see below, features the entire murderour ensemble, with Pooh notably riding a bloodthirsty Bambi.
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.
SOURCE: Variety
