Mulan 3
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- Genre: Direct-To-Video
- Company: Walt Disney Pictures
- Project Phase: Unknown
- Release Date: Unknown
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Notes
First heard through a thru www.videopremiereawards.com with a interview with
Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer. The whole article can be read
Here
Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer has been brought in to
work on Mulan III, for which they have suggested a character that
would bear the name they chose to give their daughter, Ana Ming.
VP: You wrote the first Mulan and did work on the third one. Why weren't you
- involved with Mulan II?
RS: We were unavailable for the second one because we were working on live
- action projects.
VP: How do you know where to take the characters and work on a story for
- Mulan III when Mulan II isn't even done yet?
RS: We had a rough idea; a two- to three-line description of the second one.
- We finally got to see some reels from the second one.
RS: What they have at Disney now, which works really well, though not to
- the advantage of freelance writers, is they have really talented writers
- who are very, very savvy with the process and have the ear of everybody
- because they are in the office every day on staff.
- It works very well for Disney and very well for those writers who are probably
- on contracts for a certain number of weeks. It leaves freelancers to be
- either a superstar or a clean-up man or something like that.
- We submitted two Mulan III stories to them. It has to go through development
- executives, then a VP, then the president. When you get a story you like
- and you pitch it to the VP, they suggest changes.
- They are very smart; they know the Disney way and they know what they want
- out of each story. They are very quick and very specific. You go home
- and you work on that pitch some more. You have a series of pitches.
- Finally, you get to a point where those pitches are signed off by the
- executive. When the executive is pleased, it goes to the VPs, who take
- their turn at it, giving you notes and changes.
- The idea is to get it all ready to go to [Disney Animation president]
- Thomas Schumacher. And then he gives his notes.
- I'm writing a [live action] thriller feature. I'm having fun not having a
- deadline and needing to serve other people's ideas of something, of
- trying to fit my idea into someone else's idea of what my idea should be.
- At some level, you have to surrender to that process.
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