It’s Mickey, but not as you’ve ever seen him before.
A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the US.
“We wanted the polar opposite of what exists,” the movie’s producer said.
A new Mickey-inspired horror game, showing the rodent covered with blood stains, also dropped on the same day.
Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie, entered the public domain in the US on New Year’s Day.
It means cartoonists, novelists and filmmakers can now rework and use the earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie.
This looks awful, like that Pooh movie. This “make a horror story out of expired copyrights” trend is gonna get old, fast.
I don’t care if it gets old, fuck copyrights and fuck Disney.
Absolutely fuck Disney, but Disney got fucked (from their perspective) by copyright law, not this movie. Maybe you could say the movie thumbs its nose at Disney, but the “damage” has already been done because Steamboat Willie is already public domain. Now should be the time for people to look for interesting things to do with the material. Instead, we’re getting whatever this is.
What? They got 95 years of publicly-funded protection. How is that getting fucked?
No. I absolutely will not gatekeep artwork that is used from the public domain. I don’t care. Even if I don’t like it doesn’t mean I will stoop to saying people should or shouldn’t be making it. This comment reeks of elitism.
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I heard the Pooh movie was good. Then I watched it. I probably won’t bother with this Mickey movie.
heh
I mean, most movies are shit so what did you expect?