Winnie the Pooh fans who have grown up with the loveable bear and his friends have not yet recovered from the traumatic retelling of Pooh’s story in Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey. Now another R-rated Pooh project is already coming to continue the plundering of the public domain work of A.A. Milne. This time around Christopher Robin will be the main focus of the project, and it will be taking the form of a comedy TV series.
Coming from Boat Rocker and Shamier Anderson and Stephan James’ Bay Mills Studios, the R-rated comedy will be a hybrid of live-action and animation, which will put Christopher Robin in New York and see his animal friends living on the other side of a “drug-induced” portal outside his “Hundred Acres” apartment block. The full logline of the series says:
“Christopher Robin is a disillusioned New Yorker navigating his quarter-life crisis with the help of the weird talking animals who live beyond a drug-induced portal outside his derelict apartment complex, the Hundred Acres.”
There are few other details currently available about the project other than it is based on an original script from Charlie Kesslering, and will have its pilot episode directed by Sausage Party helmer Conrad Vernon, which should give some idea as to the direction this show is heading. Oh, bother.
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Winnie the Pooh Entering the Public Domain Has Unleashed Many New Projects
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There are many popular novels that have been in the public domain for decades, including gothic horrors like Dracula and Frankenstein, children’s stories such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and many others. Until last year, A.A. Milne’s original Winnie The Pooh stories were under copyright protection, meaning that permission was needed to adapt any Winnie the Pooh project for profit.
Having now fallen into the public domain, Winnie the Pooh is no longer a Disney monopoly and as long as those using the bear of very little brain and his many friends stick only to the way the characters were written in Milne’s first book, and do not include anything that was later added by the House of Mouse, then they can do whatever they want with him. That includes turning him into a Jason Voorhees style killing machine in a low budget horror slasher called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which seemed be a raging success in terms of profit but also became one of the worst rated movies on the year on Rotten Tomatoes. Well, sometimes you can’t have it all.
Where Winnie the Pooh and his friends will be taken next is something that only time will tell but with this new Christopher Robin series, and a sequel to Blood and Honey also in the works, it is clear that the Hundred Acre Wood and all of its inhabitants are never going to be seen in quite the same innocent way they once were.
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