Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Series from Jon Favreau in the Works for Disney+

Disney movie seasoned Jon Favreau is moving with the House of Mouse connected a Disney+ bid featuring classical animated icon Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Details astir the histrion and director’s upcoming task travel from a Deadline report, which says Favreau volition beryllium blending his live-action and animation skills to bring Oswald to the Disney streaming work successful the signifier of a TV show. He’ll service arsenic some writer and shaper connected the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. Further details, including crippled and casting information, person yet to beryllium revealed.

Although Oswald has and ever volition beryllium an important quality successful Disney’s expansive lineup of animated, anthropomorphic characters, his clip with the now-giant institution was short-lived. The Lucky Rabbit was an thought calved from Walt Disney himself, but the then-mascot really lone lived with Disney for 26 soundless cartoons from 1927 to 1928 owed to a rights mix-up that saw Universal instrumentality control. As covered successful our in-depth look astatine Disney’s 100-year history, Oswald’s departure led to a acheronian play for the animation pioneer but besides resulted successful the commencement of an important replacement: Mickey Mouse.

Disney went connected to nab the rights to Oswald successful 2006, and successful 2022, it released its archetypal caller archetypal abbreviated starring the quality successful 95 years. Now, it appears the institution wants the quality to unrecorded connected arsenic much than a elemental practice of however acold it’s come. Although a merchandise day for the Favreau task has besides not been revealed, it sounds similar fans tin expect the live-action and animation hybrid to materialize sometime successful the future.

While Favreau’s sights are acceptable connected 1 of Disney’s oldest animated properties, much recently, he’s recovered himself tied up with immoderate of its newest universes. Star Wars fans nary uncertainty admit the filmmaker arsenic 1 of the loudest voices pushing the postulation far, acold distant into the aboriginal acknowledgment to his enactment connected projects similar The Mandalorian, Skeleton Crew, and Ahsoka. He’s besides made his people connected the Marvel Cinematic Universe down and successful beforehand of the camera for the past 15 years and adjacent sat successful the director’s seat for the 2019 The Lion King remake. Fans tin expect to spot him nonstop erstwhile again erstwhile The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters successful 2026.

While Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is primed to spot an authoritative instrumentality nether the Disney umbrella, quality of the character’s astir caller quality successful movie isn’t adjacent 1 twelvemonth old. In 2023, conscionable 1 twelvemonth removed from Oswald’s entranceway into nationalist domain status, Oswald: Down the Rabbit Hole was revealed arsenic a fearfulness movie rotation connected the classical quality starring Ghostbusters histrion Ernie Hudson.

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