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Yes. But no. From TV Tropes: Originally, the series was going to star Bernard and Bianca from The Rescuers, which would likely have departed from the books in favor of original content. However, when The Rescuers Down Under was greenlit for production, the series was extensively retooled.
The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to Disney's 1977 animated feature film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels by Margery Sharp. In The Rescuers Down Under, Bernard and Bianca travel to the Australian Outback ...
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The Rescuers was an adaptation of a series of children’s books by Margery Sharp, primarily the first novel and its sequel, Miss Bianca. It followed Bernard (voiced by the legendary Bob Newhart) and Bianca (Eva Gabor), a pair of mice who work for a United Nations-style organization and travel to New Orleans to rescue a young girl from the clutches o...
To help with Rescuers Down Under, Schneider recruited Thomas Schumacher, who would become the first outside producer brought into Disney Animation. Schumacher had worked with Schneider and Roy’s son Tim on the 1984 Olympics. Together, Schumacher and Schneider had shared a cramped office. Later, Schumacher had worked on a youth theater (The Mark Tap...
The cast of The Rescuers Down Under is uniformly excellent. Besides Newhart and Gabor (in what would wind up being her final role), there was an electric John Candy as Wilbur (taking over for Jim Jordan, who played Wilbur’s brother Orville in the first film and who had died shortly before production began), the albatross companion of the two mice. ...
Just as Peter Schneider had recruited Thomas Schumacher to help out on The Rescuers Down Under, Schumacher reached out to Kathleen Gavin. Gavin had also just finished work on Oliver & Company, where she served as production manager (“We worked seven days a week for, I don't know, a year and a half or something,” she said). And in her head she had c...
Despite all of its technical setbacks and storytelling hurdles, The Rescuers Down Under was actually released into theaters on November 17, 1990. It was warmly but not rapturously reviewed. Reviewing the “holiday double bill,” Janet Maslin in the New York Times said that The Prince and the Pauper was, in fact, the “highlight of Disney's animated pr...
Oliver And Company was originally going to be a spin-off sequel. Jenny was originally meant to be Penny from The Rescuers and her subplot would've been how she was living with the parents who adopted her at the end of the film. The film was retooled a number of times as it was based on different books in the Rescuers novel series.
Nov 20, 2019 · Released in 1990, The Rescuers Down Under is one of the great forgotten films of the Disney Renaissance. In conversations about Disney Animation’s spell-binding run of films from The Little ...
Jul 30, 2013 · THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER marked a turning point for Disney; it was the first traditionally-animated film to use the new Computer Animation Production System developed by Pixar, the beginning...
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The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to Disney's 1977 animated feature film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels by Margery Sharp.
