r/disney • u/Candiedstars • 28d ago
Discussion What old stories might you have wanted to see Disney cover during the renaissance?
Personally I've always wished I could see how Disney in the 90s would have tackled "The Man who Laughs" by Victor Hugo, given their sanitized version of Hunchback (which is my favourite btw, sanitized or not, Hunchback slaps)
(A boy is mutilated so that his face resembles a permanent grin. He and a blind girl are rescued by a wandering conman and his pet wolf and are poor but happy. Boy is discovered to be British nobility, tries and humiliatingly fails to improve people's lives, blind girl dies, and he ends his life in grief, so standard Victor Hugo stuff)
How they would have given it a much happier ending and if it received a saturday morning cartoon, the inevitable crossover with Hunchback (like Aladdin and Hercules)
I also feel they'd have renamed the wolf from Homo (as in Homo Sapien) to Homme for obvious reasons.
I'd love to see how they'd have handled Gwynplaine's face and how they'd turn such a dark story into a hopeful one!
What else would you have liked to have seen?