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The Shadow King

The Shadow King

Unproduced Disney Film

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The Shadow King was an upcoming written stop motion 3D dark fantasy thriller film written and directed by Henry Selick. Initially The Disney Company, made plans to release the project, but eventually dropped out after spending a reported $50 million on it, leaving Selick to proceed without Disney, but with a plot and voice cast.

The film would have been about a nine-year-old New York orphan Hap who hides his fantastically weird hands with long fingers from a cruel world. But when a living shadow girl teaches him to make amazing hand shadows that come to life, his hands become incredible weapons in a shadow war against a ravenous monster bent on killing Hap's brother Richard and ultimately destroying New York.

After the success of his stop motion film Caroline, director Selick was brought Pixar into and given a four-picture deal. He wrote his own script for a story about a young orphan in New York City who has hands with unusually long fingers which the child hides from others. When the child is taught how to make "amazing hand shadows that come to life", they become his weapons in a shadow war against a monster intent on killing the child's brother and ultimately, New York as well. The film began pre-production in 2011, with an expected release date of October 2013.

Now for the setbacks:

After spending a reported $50 million, and due to unspecified concerns over future costs and benefits, the WDC declined the project in August 2012, allowing Selick to shop the project to other studios. In February 2013, it was reported in a press release by Selick that K5 International European Film Market would be handling sales at the . It is unknown when the film will actually be released. In August 2016, a rep for Selick said the film is "in turnaround again" while Selick is continuing work on his other two projects: A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Wendell and Wild.

And no matter what I can find, all sources say that it's upcoming even though it is unknown when. For now it's an unproduce film in my book.

ALSO, a very similar (not really) Plot is being made by Dreamworks.

Me & My Shadow is an upcoming film. The film will have a blend of both CGI and hand-drawn animation. 

In an interview in late 2013, Jeffrey Katzenberg stated that the film was not cancelled but put back on it's development tracks and would start up production when they get a new re-write. Josh Gad, the one who plays Stanley Grubb, recorded his first line of dialogue on February 16, 2012 and posted it on his Instagram. He also posted a picture of a page of the script and one of the lines of direction were, "Stanley in Stan's control, waves at Heidi as she advantages closer to him". The film should start production in August or September. In a comic con, it was said that half of the movie is in 2D, Its now going to be realease in 2019 June 5.

Any thoughts? 

Source: Wikipedia, Buzzfed and Dreamworks wiki

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