This isn’t the Winnie the Pooh you grew up with.
In an interview with Selection, director Rhys Waterfield teased new details a few new, twisted tackle the beloved character within the upcoming horror movie “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
“Nobody goes to mistake this [for Disney],” Waterfield stated. “Whenever you see the duvet for this and also you see the trailers and the stills and all that, there’s no means anybody goes to assume it is a little one’s model of it.”
The previously lovable yellow bear and his sidekick, Piglet, will now be the “major villains … occurring a rampage” after Christopher Robin leaves them behind for a school training.
“As a result of they’ve needed to fend for themselves a lot, they’ve primarily change into feral,” Waterfield continued. “So that they’ve gone again to their animal roots. They’re not tame: They’re like a vicious bear and pig who wish to go round and attempt to discover prey.”
Just a few of the stills Waterfield talked about dropped on Thursday, together with a shot of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet creeping up behind a bikini-clad lady in a scorching tub.
“She’s having a superb time after which Pooh and Piglet seem behind her, chloroform her, take her out of the jacuzzi after which sort of drive a automobile over her head,” Waterfield stated.
Social media had a area day with the photographs — a lot in order that Waterfield stated that ending the undertaking “as quick as we will” is a “excessive precedence.”
Filmed in 10 days in England, Waterfield stated audiences “shouldn’t expect this to be a Hollywood-level manufacturing.”
Whereas he wouldn’t disclose the finances for the movie, he stated audiences ought to count on it to experience the road between horror and comedy.
“Whenever you attempt to do a movie like this, and it’s a very wacky idea, it’s very straightforward to go down a route the place nothing is frightening and it’s simply actually ridiculous and actually, like, silly,” he stated.
“It’s scary however there’s additionally humorous bits as a result of there’s pictures of Winnie the Pooh in a automobile and seeing him along with his little ears behind the wheel and like slowly going over there [to kill her],” he continued on the recent tub scene.
The film was additionally made with the attention that Disney nonetheless owns unique use of interpretations of Pooh and his friends. That’s why the honey-lover will commerce his normal pink shirt for a lumberjack go well with and Piglet will costume in all black.
Nevertheless, the unique 1926 tales of the tubby yellow fellow by creator A.A. Milne are now out of copyright and in the public domain, so Waterfield relied on that for reference.
“We’ve tried to be extraordinarily cautious,” Waterfield. stated “We knew there was this line between that, and we knew what their copyright was and what they’ve completed. So we did as a lot as we might to verify [the film] was solely based mostly on the 1926 model of it.”
Waterfield’s Jagged Edge Productions, which he runs with co-producer Scott Jeffrey, made “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.” There isn’t a launch date but.
