Walt Disney Pictures’ president shares future plans for The Lion King, as well as the return of Pirates of the Caribbean.
The Little Mermaid is only the newest of Disney’s animated adaptations. As live-action takes on Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch, and Snow White are all churning their way through the Mouse House production factory, the man leading the “reimagination” is Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey, who has at least 50 more projects waiting in the wings.
This figure comes courtesy of a new profile in the New York Times. Bailey—whose “division makes two or three big-budget films annually for release in theaters and three modestly budgeted movies for Disney+”—says that one of the main reasons for these live-action adaptations is to find a way to “make Disney stories less retrograde.
