Disney Animation Studios Shelves Jack And the Beanstalk Movie Gigantic

Posted by at 9:29 pm on October 10, 2017

Walt Disney Animation Studios has dropped development of Gigantic, its adaptation of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk.

“Sometimes, no matter how much we love an idea or how much heart goes into it, we find that it just isn’t working,” said Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull.”With ‘Gigantic,’ we’ve come to that point, and although it’s a difficult decision, we are ending active development for now. We are focusing our energies on another project that has been in the works, which we’ll be sharing more about soon, now set for Thanksgiving 2020.”

Disney had announced Gigantic at the studio’s D23 Expo in 2015 with “Tangled’s” Nathan Greno directing and Dorothy McKim producing. “Frozen” songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez were on board to write the music for the film with husband-wife singing one of the songs at the event.

Gigantic was to be set in Spain during the Age of Exploration and follow Jack as he discovers a world of giants hidden within clouds and befriends a 60-foot female giant. It had been set for a Nov. 25, 2020, release but Disney announced Tuesday that it had moved Gigantic off the date and scheduled an untitled animated film for that slot instead.

The shelving of Gigantic does not necessarily mean that the project is gone for good. Pixar went through multiple delays on The Good Dinosaur after it announced the project in 2009 and finally released the film in 2015. The animated comedy wound up grossing $330 million worldwide, the lowest total for a Pixar title.

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