{"id":138642,"date":"2019-04-20T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138642"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:54:41","slug":"the-mouse-vs-the-mouse-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/the-mouse-vs-the-mouse-guard.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mouse vs &#8220;The Mouse Guard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there&#8217;s been plenty of nerd glee over Disney&#8217;s acquisition of Fox&#8217;s movie properties &#8212; X-Men and FF in the MCU, huzzah! &#8212; it&#8217;s not all good news.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has canceled Fox&#8217;s adaptation of the fantastic comic series,\u00a0<em>The Mouse Guard,\u00a0<\/em>only weeks before it was to begin production. The movie, which had lined up the voice talents Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, and a number of other noteworthies, was considered to not quite fit into either Disney&#8217;s portfolio or where they intend to move the Fox studios line to (more\u00a0PG-13 and R-rated films).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mouse Guard<\/em> is referred to as\u00a0\u201cGame of Thrones with mice,\u201d which is about 60% inaccurate. It is an extended saga of tribes of forest creatures with varying levels of medieval technology, focused primarily on the\u00a0 extended realm of field mice and the elite guard that serves as rangers, protectors, and warriors. Written and drawn by David Petersen, it&#8217;s beautifully illustrated stuff, with some strong story lines, and I was very much looking forward to what they were going to do with it in a feature film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-138643\" title=\"mouse guard - snake\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake-650x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake-650x260.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake-150x60.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While unfortunate, Disney is letting the producers shop the property around, and some other studios have expressed an interest. So, like the doughty mice of its story, it&#8217;s Not Dead Yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/disney-kills-foxs-mouse-guard-adaptation-but-that-does-1834136867\">Disney Cancels Mouse Guard, Starring Idris Elba and Andy Serkis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney has canceled Fox&#8217;s &#8220;Mouse Guard&#8221; adaptation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,263,41],"tags":[903,1836],"class_list":["post-138642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-comics","category-disney","category-media-movies","tag-disney","tag-mouseguard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mouse-guard-snake.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/22\/hoist.html","url_meta":{"origin":138642,"position":0},"title":"Hoist","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Nov-02 2:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Disney's already feeling the heat over the Pooh rights imbroglio, and they've always been, ah, zealous in protecting their Mickey Mouse copyright (suing the snot out of day care centers...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disney\/Pixar&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ananova.com\/images\/web\/thumbs\/35654.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":39912,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/mice-why-did-it-have-to-be-mice.html","url_meta":{"origin":138642,"position":1},"title":"Mice &#8230; why did it have to be \u00a0mice?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Dec-13 6:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Disney now owns the \"Indiana Jones\" franchise, except for distribution rights for the first four films which Paramount retains.So one wonders what's up next? 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