Disney projects in the pipeline

There was good news and bad news at the D23 Disney expo in Anaheim last week. Decide for yourself which is which.

There was good news and bad news at the D23 Disney expo in Anaheim last week. Decide for yourself which is which.

We have a name for the fourth

Pirates of the Caribbean film: On Stranger Tides

. A muppet movie titled

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! is also on the way. Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E, is to embark on a live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s

John Carter of Mars novels

. And Guillermo del Toro is to head-up a new division, Double Dare You, making horror films for kids.

To be fair, the stupid Pirates stuff aside, it all sounds good.

Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke, a contributor to The Irish Times, is Chief Film Correspondent and a regular columnist