Adult remakes of Disney movies?

The most recent episode of Saturday Night Live featured a mock advertisement for a live remake of Bambi, featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Bambi, Vin Diesel as Thumper, Tyrese Gibson as Flower, Michelle Rodriguez as Faline.  While this comedy sketch was not meant to be serious, it is interesting to think about the possibilities of turning some of Disney’s feature films into serious adult films.  This is actually something that I could see being done, for example, with the princess stories, considering that many of the original stories that were told in Europe in the Middle Ages were not intended for a young audience.  Instead, they had deeper meanings and significance that could only be understood by adults.

Despite this possibility, I do not see Disney making films intended for an older audience anytime soon.  After all, their main goal is to provide entertainment that is suitable for the whole family.  However, it would be interesting to see other film production companies, or even one of Disney’s subsidiaries, take up this challenge.  Those are films that I believe a lot of adults would be interested in seeing, considering so many grew up watching the originals over and over again.

The link to the article with the video clip is below:

http://deadline.com/2015/03/the-rock-bambi-remake-saturday-night-live-1201400655/