First Look: Synopsis and Images From Disney's WINNIE THE POOH Movie

Walt Disney has a new retelling of Winnie the Pooh in the works for the first time in 35 years. The film will be directed by Stephen J. Anderson (Meet the Robinsons) and Don Hall (story writer of The Princess and the Frog).  This version will be based off of off five short stories by A.A. Milne. 

The voice cast includes Craig Ferguson, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Bud Luckey (director of the Pixar short Boundin’). There will be seven new songs from Bobby Lopez as well as the Pooh theme song performed by Zooey Deschanel.

This film takes me back to my childhood and I am super excited. Check out the first images released from Disney below:

Synopsis:

Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with “Winnie the Pooh,” the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years. With the charm, wit and whimsy of the original featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical “bear of very little brain” and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail.   “Well a tail is either there or it isn’t there,” said Pooh. “And yours isn’t… there.”  Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny. Inspired by five stories from A.A. Milne’s books in Disney’s classic, hand-drawn art style, “Winnie the Pooh” hits theaters July 15, 2011.