Live-Action Winnie the Pooh being developed by Disney

Looks like Disney is continuing their reign of rebooting and remaking-in-live-action their line of old movies. We recently found out that Disney is making a live-action "Dumbo" and a "Beauty and the Beast" movie. Now, they're announcing a live-action adaptation of "Winnie the Pooh" [hit the jump to continue]

Deadline reports that Winnie the Pooh is also being prepped to get a live-action update, coming on the heels of the previously released "Alice in Wonderland", "Maleficent", and "Cinderella". Disney has already hired filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (who wrote and directed the Sundance indie film "Listen Up Philip" with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss.

The idea for this new Winnie the Pooh is to have its focus on Christopher Robin as an adult who is summoned back to the Hundred Acre Wood to frolic with his animal pals: a honey-obsessed bear, a clinically depressed donkey, and a bumbling pig, among others.
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