Uncle Tom’s Fairy Tales

Uncle Tom’s Fairy Tales is a fantasy live-action/hand drawn animated film released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution and Nucleus Productions in 1983.The film stars Richard Pryor

Synopsis
A stressed book writer and storyteller named Tom Buckley is chosen to watch the orphanage but when the children start to go crazy he decides to tell stories to the children in which he makes up on the top of his head but what Tom doesn't know that his made up fairy tales are going to open up a world unlike anyone's seen before.

Cast
Richard Pryor as Tom Buckley

TBA as Mrs. Joy Beyove-head of the orphanage and carer

Conner-a 15 year old kid who thinks Tom's stories aren't real but eventually believes him

TBA as Michelle-a 12 year old girl

Heather O'Rourke as Kayla-a 10 year old who is the youngest

Grover Roddy-a storybook publisher who hears Tom's made up stories and wants to make them actual books kids can read

Voice Cast
TBD

Production
in 1968, Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales: The Movie for Homosexuals was intended as a starring vehicle for an on-the-rise Richard Pryor in this comedy about race relations in the US. For starters, the plot itself was pretty controversial, revolving around a white man who is kidnapped by the Black Panthers and put on trial for the entire history of racial crimes against black people by whites. That's without even getting into the production difficulties, the source of which, hilariously enough, appeared to be Pryor's wife at the time.However in the 1970s Richard Pryor came to an agreement with his wife to make Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales a family film. She was confused on how it would be a kid-friendly film He would explain to her that it could be about a storyteller who reads stories to children of an orphanage. She liked the idea of something the kids could watch. In 1975 Richard pitched his idea to a CEO at Disney and was interested in the idea.Disney then declared to make this a family movie with Pryors plot and new story.

Casting

Richard Pryor was cast as the lead role as Uncle Tom. Poltergiest child star Heather'O Rourke was cast as Kayla