Disney Descendants Cinematic Universe
Descendants is an amazing trilogy of Disney Channel movies like no other. For decades we have had many Disney movies adapting fairy tales and other classic literature for the big screen that was set in much earlier periods of time. One exception is 101 Dalmatians, which was written by Jodie Smith in 1956, and she gave her blessing to Walt Disney to adapt this film at the time. It premiered in 1961. Descendants is a Disney Channel TV movie that is probably more popular than most Disney Channel teen sitcom-style movies like it, because of the ties it has to the movies that hundreds of thousands of parents and children have watched for four fore generations. Descendants is a very unique IP based on a dozen earlier IPs because it reimagines the movies in an alternate universe, in which new live-action versions of the animated Disney characters and their Descendants exist in present day-2010s. In my opinion, Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover since Descendants, which incorporates characters from many earlier Disney films ranging from Snow White in 1937 to The Princess and the Frog in 2009. I can not talk about every Disney animated movie, because Descendants can only include so many characters, and The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Lilo & Stitch are just some of the films they never included.
I hope that most people who have seen any of the movies on this list, some sequels included (NOT Belle's Magical World or Mulan 2), will discover Descendants through them and be drawn to watching it. Most people do not know that before the movie came out, Dianne Doan (Fa Lonnie, Descendant of Fa Mulan) had a web series called "Disney Descendants: School of Secrets." You should also check that out.
Related content I can include:
-TV shows and direct-to-video sequels based on them with the same characters and settings
-Other animated Disney films or shows that turn out to be related to them in some way
-Movies with descendants who may have only appeared in the animated Wicked World shorts (such as Alice in Wonderland)
Content I can not include related to the movies
-Those bait-and-switch movie previews where Stitch from Lilo & Stitch interrupts The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
-Any and all live action remakes (obviously)
-Live-action sort-of sequels such as Hook and Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland, or villain origin stories like Snow White and the Huntsmen, Maleficent and Cruella
-Features which are, in-universe gatherings of Disney characters in House of Mouse and Ralph Breaks the Internet
-Direct-to-video Tinker Bell movies (because there are too much to keep track of)
-Once Upon a Time's other more mature re-tellings of Disney characters
-The 7D, which is allegedly a prequel of the 7 dwarves before they met Snow White, but has completely new designs for them with other all-new characters.
Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor. Jake and the Neverland Pirates focuses on a new band of kid pirates and regularly features Captain Hook and Smee as the antagonists with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell sometimes showing up to help. Sofia the First had a lot of Disney princesses, including Merida from Pixar, showing up to help Sofia in one episode, and Elena of Avalor was a spin-off of Sofia the First. I know Sofia the First is set way before the period in which it was made, but it kind of has the same continuity issue as Descendants for having characters from tales written in or set in different periods. For example, Mulan takes place in the 4th century, and Cinderella takes place in the 18th century. It was nice to see Sofia meet other princesses from more known Disney features, but it would be tricky to include other movies that were only connected to movies Descendants was based on because both categories crossed paths with Sofia the First. Do characters from Brave and Frozen exist in Descendants because of their shared connections with Cinderella and Mulan meeting Sofia the First? And I would not want to include Jake and the Neverland Pirates without including Sofia the First and its direct spin-off show.
I highly recommend that you all check out the Descendants trilogy because Disney Channel's modern live-action take on these animated fairytales is a far better watch than any of their live-action remakes, or Maleficent and Cruella, which rewrite the past to try and fail to give their villains a sympathetic origin story. If you like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I also recommend the six episodes with Dove Cameron from Season 5 and Dianne Doan from Season 7. Dianne loved working with Ming-Na Wen and even saw her as a mother figure, like their characters from Mulan and Descendants. Dianne enjoyed watching the animated film Mulan when she was a kid, and I believe Ming-Na Wen looks like a live-action version of Fa Mulan, which is great for Dianne Doan when Fa Lonnie was a live-action role for her.
I hope that most people who have seen any of the movies on this list, some sequels included (NOT Belle's Magical World or Mulan 2), will discover Descendants through them and be drawn to watching it. Most people do not know that before the movie came out, Dianne Doan (Fa Lonnie, Descendant of Fa Mulan) had a web series called "Disney Descendants: School of Secrets." You should also check that out.
Related content I can include:
-TV shows and direct-to-video sequels based on them with the same characters and settings
-Other animated Disney films or shows that turn out to be related to them in some way
-Movies with descendants who may have only appeared in the animated Wicked World shorts (such as Alice in Wonderland)
Content I can not include related to the movies
-Those bait-and-switch movie previews where Stitch from Lilo & Stitch interrupts The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
-Any and all live action remakes (obviously)
-Live-action sort-of sequels such as Hook and Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland, or villain origin stories like Snow White and the Huntsmen, Maleficent and Cruella
-Features which are, in-universe gatherings of Disney characters in House of Mouse and Ralph Breaks the Internet
-Direct-to-video Tinker Bell movies (because there are too much to keep track of)
-Once Upon a Time's other more mature re-tellings of Disney characters
-The 7D, which is allegedly a prequel of the 7 dwarves before they met Snow White, but has completely new designs for them with other all-new characters.
Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor. Jake and the Neverland Pirates focuses on a new band of kid pirates and regularly features Captain Hook and Smee as the antagonists with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell sometimes showing up to help. Sofia the First had a lot of Disney princesses, including Merida from Pixar, showing up to help Sofia in one episode, and Elena of Avalor was a spin-off of Sofia the First. I know Sofia the First is set way before the period in which it was made, but it kind of has the same continuity issue as Descendants for having characters from tales written in or set in different periods. For example, Mulan takes place in the 4th century, and Cinderella takes place in the 18th century. It was nice to see Sofia meet other princesses from more known Disney features, but it would be tricky to include other movies that were only connected to movies Descendants was based on because both categories crossed paths with Sofia the First. Do characters from Brave and Frozen exist in Descendants because of their shared connections with Cinderella and Mulan meeting Sofia the First? And I would not want to include Jake and the Neverland Pirates without including Sofia the First and its direct spin-off show.
I highly recommend that you all check out the Descendants trilogy because Disney Channel's modern live-action take on these animated fairytales is a far better watch than any of their live-action remakes, or Maleficent and Cruella, which rewrite the past to try and fail to give their villains a sympathetic origin story. If you like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I also recommend the six episodes with Dove Cameron from Season 5 and Dianne Doan from Season 7. Dianne loved working with Ming-Na Wen and even saw her as a mother figure, like their characters from Mulan and Descendants. Dianne enjoyed watching the animated film Mulan when she was a kid, and I believe Ming-Na Wen looks like a live-action version of Fa Mulan, which is great for Dianne Doan when Fa Lonnie was a live-action role for her.
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