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Look at it as good news...we might get "Haunted High School Musical" back. And that was probably the only one I would've wanted to see.

As for "Hannah Montana"...we'd better see the oft mentioned Uncle Earl. I wanna see Will Sasso (Who shows up in "College Road Trip") playing him. Heck, he does a great drunken Kenny Rogers impression. :D

Hire freelance writers from a right-to-work state.

bonk!

Scabs? No thanks.

Maybe tell Iger and the gang to get off their butts and back to the negotiating table, give the writers their due Internet residuals, and move forward!  Seems pretty easy to me.

I bet even the execs could write a better script than HSM2!

hey its good

Somebody wrote those? I thought there was a machine you could just toss proper nouns into and it spits out the entire script. Isn't that how 90 percent of movies are made these days?

gurvz: In 10 years, look back at that movie and tell us with a straight face that it's good.

<sarcasm mode on> I'm just inconsolably upset by the prospect of not having to put up with throngs of teenieboppers flooding my local multiplex to watch "Hannah" or HSM3". <sarcasm mode off>

Any chance we can get the WGA to prolong the strike? :)

It's already been announced that the film starts shooting in April at East High in Utah.  Also been announced that the cast read and signed off on the script, giving it the thumbs up.  They've also announced an October 2008 release date.  Guess someone must like it.

Well if they really wanted to start production they'd tell Iger to get his butt to the negotiating table and make a seperate deal with the writers.  The AMPTP's strategy of throwing a hissy fit and then blaming the writers for wanting to change things isn't exactly working.

Oh and T.Galvin the fact the actors signed off on the script and and pre-production is in motion means little about the script's quality.  It's actually quite common for scripts to be worked on to get into a shootable form while pre-production is starting...

I have a question ... is there any particular reason Jim's avoiding all the actual news there is to report about Disney lately and focusing instead on pointless drivel like this?

Where's the story on the debacle that is the new Spaceship Earth??

It's funny that you say that, considerin I'm sure these two franchises are MUCH higher on Disney readar then Spaceship Earth.

Also, I've heard only good things about the first half of SSE.

The bad stuff I've heard has all been on the descent.

The new Spaceship Earth is great.  The quiz on the descent just needs a little programming work that they're probably working on right now.

Jim gets to the point at the end of the article.  Films are made or broken in the editing.  They could shoot these "rough scripts" and still have plenty of time to fix them up with reshoots by the time the strike ends.  (It can't last much longer.  Neither side can afford it to.)

As for hiring non-Union work, that can't happen only because it would upset SAG and the Director's Guild, who would (correctly) view it as an attempt to break the guilds.  So then they'd have to find independant directors (they could get Robert Rodriguez!) *and* actors (they would get no one) for their films.

No update for a few days. . .well, here's an off-topic MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

On-topic. . .Since these aren't Pixar films, I guess Mr. Hill doesn't even consider that they might be flops.  And why do I see a budding Britanny Spears in Miley Cyrus and her manufactured career?

A Tween Disney flop will still have cost less than your average Pixar film- making it able to recoup the investment much quicker.