Disney Legend Jon Favreau Reportedly Developing “Oswald The Lucky Rabbit” Series for Disney+
Hoe photorealistic can we make a nearly century old squash-and-stretch style character?
A new project starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is set for Disney+, and will see Disney Legend Jon Favreau writing and producing.
What’s Happening:
- Disney Legend Jon Favreau, known largely for his contributions to Disney+ and the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, along with its offshoots, is set to take on a new take of a classic animated character - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
- Deadline is reporting that Favreau is tackling a new series featuring the character that predates Mickey Mouse himself, writing and producing the series for Disney+.
- The series is set to be a live-action/animation hybrid, a la the 2016 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, which Favreau also directed for the company.
- The notion of a live-action/animated hybrid featuring Oswald has fans commenting on social media, thinking immediately of something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, though others are commenting that Favreau might (to their chagrin) take a photorealistic approach to Oswald, considering that’s what he did in the aforementioned The Jungle Book, and again later in the 2019 adaptation of The Lion King - an approach that was largely panned on the latter feature due to a lack of emotion displayed through the animation of the photorealistic animals.
- Oswald has no need to be photorealistic though, as he dates back to a particular era in animation and for the Walt Disney Company in general.
- Devotees will recall that Oswald was one of Walt Disney’s early creations, dating back to 1927 before Mickey Mouse, and featured in 27 animated shorts. Walt inevitably lost the rights to the character to Universal in a dispute that is largely known to have influenced the creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928. Disney CEO Bob Iger brought the character back to the company in 2006.
- Favreau, who was named a Disney Legend in 2019, is also set to direct the upcoming feature based on the Disney+ series, The Mandalorian & Grogu.
- There is no official timeline or any kind of release date for the new series.
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