Oh bother! Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey recasts their beloved bear

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Winnie the Pooh apparently goes to the dark side, leaving his Disney persona in the dust.

The honey-loving Canadian-born wreckage will star in the next horror movie. Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Money.. Turnaround from his typical vague antique.

What has changed is that AA Milne’s early The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain after the copyright previously owned by Disney expired.

Now the producer has remade the bear as a serial killer. Serial killers slice victims and dig them for laughter. According to Gizmond, there are few details about Pooh’s slasher star turn.

Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who also co-authored and produced the film, said Pooh (Craig David-Dowsett) and Piglet (Chris Cordell) “ramped” after being abandoned by college attending Christopher Robin. ..

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“They have to protect themselves, so they’re pretty barbaric,” he told Variety. “They are no longer tame. They are like malicious bears and pigs that go around and try to find prey.”

This movie is based in the UK Jagged Edge (Legend of Jack & Jill When Humpty Dumpty’s Curse).

Waterfield said he tried to “pay close attention” to his film so that he wouldn’t hit the Disney company’s minefields.

But don’t expect a full cast from a 100-acre forest. Companions like Tigger remain copyrighted and skip new Pooh.

This movie has a distributor, but no release date.

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