Kyrsten Brad
Senior HTF Member
Well folks I haven't yet seen a offical thread for this release and I have yet to see it confirmed on the DMC site, however 'll go ahead and take a chance here that this is for real and that a childhood favorite of mine, Disney's Swiss Family Robinsion (1960) is finally making its way into Blu waters. Like a lot of folks here, I first go wind of this thru a "official" posting on the blu-ray.com site (I'll give credit where credit due).
UPDATE: Order links now up on DMC visible to members. Note to Ron, if you wish, go ahead and add a purchase link here, if you can for DMC).
As I mentioned, this was a childhood favorite movie of mine which I caught during one of Disney's theatrical re-releases (I was less than 1 year old when it was first released in 1960, it was re-released in 1969). One of those rotten weather Ohio weekend days where my parents would drop us kids off at the cinema for a afternoon. When they did this, I usually end up catching two showings of the same film which of course happened here.
Being I don't want to write any spoilers for those here who have not yet seen this film but want to check out the forthcoming Blu, I'll simply leave this Swiss Family Robinson Wiki link for those wanting further information.
Up until now this movie has never been remade by Disney or any other studio although a subplot or two of this film made its way into other Disney movie productions. The attacking pirates subplot for example re-appeared in the Disney productions Captain Ron (1992) and Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), both set in tropical locales.
It has also been reported that filmmaker Irwin Allen sought to get Disney approval for a tie-in for his Lost In Space TV series (also happily coming to Blu) but apparently Disney declined. Mr. Allen was still able to use the Robinson surname in LIS but no tie-in or whatever to Swiss Family Robinson was allowed.
There was some rumblings of a remake starting around December 2004 which have persisted to this day but so far, no official announcements or casting calls, though Will Smith has been tied to some of these rumors.
Swiss Family Robinson will be made available exclusively thru the Disney Movie Club. I know how some here feel about being "forced" to join DMC just to get some desired films but if you enjoy Disney classics and would like to pass along these movies to your children so that they could see how real cinema was made well before CGI, I say take the plunge and sign up. You won't be sorry.
As for me, I hope to be able to do a double order on DMC to include the new Cinderella movie (for my wife of course) and the DVD for Six Days, Seven Nights (which hopefully Disney will see fit to release to Blu in the future along with Captain Ron). Come to think of it, those two movies on Blu, packaged with Swiss Family Robinson would make a heck of a multi-Blu package for Disney. I also can't wait to package this Blu with the Special Edition Swiss Family Robinson DVD set (in its own purple tin) I got just a few months ago.
UPDATE: Order links now up on DMC visible to members. Note to Ron, if you wish, go ahead and add a purchase link here, if you can for DMC).
As I mentioned, this was a childhood favorite movie of mine which I caught during one of Disney's theatrical re-releases (I was less than 1 year old when it was first released in 1960, it was re-released in 1969). One of those rotten weather Ohio weekend days where my parents would drop us kids off at the cinema for a afternoon. When they did this, I usually end up catching two showings of the same film which of course happened here.
Being I don't want to write any spoilers for those here who have not yet seen this film but want to check out the forthcoming Blu, I'll simply leave this Swiss Family Robinson Wiki link for those wanting further information.
Up until now this movie has never been remade by Disney or any other studio although a subplot or two of this film made its way into other Disney movie productions. The attacking pirates subplot for example re-appeared in the Disney productions Captain Ron (1992) and Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), both set in tropical locales.
It has also been reported that filmmaker Irwin Allen sought to get Disney approval for a tie-in for his Lost In Space TV series (also happily coming to Blu) but apparently Disney declined. Mr. Allen was still able to use the Robinson surname in LIS but no tie-in or whatever to Swiss Family Robinson was allowed.
There was some rumblings of a remake starting around December 2004 which have persisted to this day but so far, no official announcements or casting calls, though Will Smith has been tied to some of these rumors.
Swiss Family Robinson will be made available exclusively thru the Disney Movie Club. I know how some here feel about being "forced" to join DMC just to get some desired films but if you enjoy Disney classics and would like to pass along these movies to your children so that they could see how real cinema was made well before CGI, I say take the plunge and sign up. You won't be sorry.
As for me, I hope to be able to do a double order on DMC to include the new Cinderella movie (for my wife of course) and the DVD for Six Days, Seven Nights (which hopefully Disney will see fit to release to Blu in the future along with Captain Ron). Come to think of it, those two movies on Blu, packaged with Swiss Family Robinson would make a heck of a multi-Blu package for Disney. I also can't wait to package this Blu with the Special Edition Swiss Family Robinson DVD set (in its own purple tin) I got just a few months ago.