Nick Kroll explains why he wanted to "rewrite" a classic fairytale after Harry Styles kissed him during the Don't Worry Darling premiere.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling continues to dabble in The Wizarding World with all sorts of new stories, tie-ins, and adaptations aplenty in the global phenom franchise, but her newest story is something different. The Ickabog isn't a Harry Potter tale at all but rather an original fairy tale meant for her younger children when she wrote it quite a few years back. And while it was intended for publication early on, Rowling opted to pen the more mature-skewing tomes under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym instead, shelving The Ickabog (or rather boxing its manuscript and stowing …
As an imagination powerhouse, Disney makes a lot of feel-good fairytales for adults and kids. Let's look at other fantasy films that arent Disney.
Since the late 1920s, the Disney name has long been responsible for creating leagues of loveable characters and volumes upon volumes of wonderful stories, creating places, kingdoms, and entire universes that we long to visit and explore. We've flown on magic carpets with Aladdin and Jasmine, run through the Pridelands with Simba, surfed monster waves with Lilo and Stitch, and saved who knows how many worlds from the forces of evil. We've had heroes, villains, and adventurous journeys set to criminally catchy soundtracks for as long as we can remember. It's no wonder why we keep going back to these visual and fantastical comforts time and time again. But as we all get older, we can't help but notice more than we did with our wide, childish eyes.