Disney Reportedly Developing Animated Astronaut Empire Film

Posted on May 26th, 2017

Disney Reportedly Developing Animated Astronaut Empire Film
It appears that Disney's next original animated film is going to be a fantasy adventure that's tentatively known as Astronaut Empire. The Mouse House's animation studio has knocked out hit after hit for the good part of the last decade now, with films like Tangled, Zootopia , and Moana pleasing general audiences and critics alike. Up next for Walt Disney Animation Studios is next November's Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, followed by another animated sequel a year after that in the form of Frozen 2. However, for the time being, Disney doesn't have an official animated entry scheduled for release in 2020.

Back in 2015, Disney announced it was developing an animated Jack and the Beanstalk re-telling titled Gigantic, which re-imagines the infamous giant from the fairy tale as a precocious 10-year old girl (giant). The Mouse House eventually shifted the film back to a 2020 release before it announced last fall that Gigantic had been shelved over concerns about the creative direction of the project (translation: it just wasn't working). Disney has yet to announce what will take Gigantic 's former spot in November 2020, but it sounds like Astronaut Empire is a plausible candidate, based on this new update.