Originally Posted by
AdamFTF
Walt Disney Studios (or Walt Disney Pictures or whatever their name is right now) is a studio that made its name on smaller, entertaining family films. In baseball terms, movies that were solid base hits and not home runs. It was either adaptations of books (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, etc), family comedies (The Absent-Minded Professor, The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, etc), kids' sports movies (The Mighty Ducks, Little Giants, Rookie of the Year, etc) or remakes of their family comedies (Flubber, The Parent Trap-1998, Freaky Friday-2003, etc). The thing about doing it that way for so long is that they were thoroughly unprepared for a movie scene largely dominated by IP-centered blockbusters. The kinds of movies they normally made would now be considered streaming fodder. They tried to get in on that with movies like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, John Carter and The Lone Ranger but none of those movies performed the way they wanted. The hits that did come like National Treasure and Pirates of the Caribbean proved difficult to replicate. Their live action reimaginings of animated movies are the only ones that seem to do blockbuster numbers more often than not. And try as they might to make it a "fantasy" thing rather than a "remake thing" with movies like The BFG, A Wrinkle in Time and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, people just don't seem to be going for it.