Disney Developing Live-Action WINNIE THE POOH Movie

Deadline reports that Disney is developing a live-action version of Winnie The Pooh as the latest big screen adaptation of one of their classic animated characters. Alex Ross Perry, the writer/director of the Jason Schwartzman/Elisabeth Moss Sundance movie Listen Up Philip, will write the screenplay, which will focus on an adult version of Christopher Robin who returns to the Hundred Acre Wood to presumably hang out with Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and the rest of his old animal friends.

Perry may seem like a strange choice, but the studio also hired Ain't Them Bodies Saints director David Lowery to write and direct its remake of Pete's Dragon, so there's already some precedent for hiring from the indie scene.

Since the studio has been on a roll with these live-action adaptations (Mulan, Dumbo, and Beauty and the Beast are on the way), I've been trying to guess which ones they'd do next, and I must admit that Winnie The Pooh didn't even cross my mind. They'll have to use CGI to recreate those characters, unless they make the totally insane decision to make a movie like Roar and use real live animals. Can you imagine? Now THAT would be a movie I'd be interested in seeing.