“One of the most loved pairings in Doctor Who’s history have reunited and are filming scenes that are due to air in 2023 to coincide with the show’s 60th anniversary celebrations.“
Itwas canned. Disney bought out Blue Sky Studios, the film’s former production house, and the film was subsequently cancelled even though the animation was already about 75% complete. Disney claimed it was for purely financial reasons, though former Blue Sky staffers later reported that the cancellation was actually carried out at least partly in retaliation after Disney execs told the production team to remove a same-gender kiss and the production team told the Disney execs to eat shit.
The fact that it’s been picked up by another production company is coming a bit out of nowhere for two reasons:
1. Disney’s habit is to sit on the rights to cancelled properties forever in order to prevent anyone else from profiting from them; it’s unclear why they decided to sell this one off instead.
2. It got picked up by Annapurna, of all outfits; Annapurna has pivoted strongly toward video games in the past few years, having produced only one other film since 2019, so it’s surprising to see them getting back in the game with a big-budget animated feature.
[Aichi Peformance] : Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall ・2019/7/ 6 (Sat) Open 17:30 / Start 18:00 ・2019/7/7 (Sun) Open 15:30 / Start 16:00
[Osaka Performance] :NHK Osaka Hall ・2019/7/20 (Sat) Open 17:30 / Start 18:00 ・2019/7/21 (Sun) Open 15:30 / Start 16:00
[Tokyo Performance] :Nakano Sunplaza Hall ・2019/8/11 (Sun) Open 17:15 / Start 18:00 ・2019/8/16 (Fri) Open 18:15 / Start 19:00
Ahhhh! As I always suspected, they waited a whole year until April (the time of big changes) to announce something for Keiko. I am kinda surprised she is back with YK and then again I am not. For her it’s always been about YK, her past interviews suggest that she doesn’t really feel like it’s worth singing for her unless she is singing the music of someone like YK. So yeah, it makes sense.
Either way, I am really thinking about attending one of those Tokyo lives but I am not sure I can make it. We shall see…