Disney's Live-Action Adaptation Continues

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The guy above is Chernabog. Also known as "The Super Creepy Evil Guy from that Fantasia segment."

This is one of the floats from Walt Disney World's (now retired--RIP) SpectroMagic parade. In all honesty, it is one of the creepiest electric parade floats Disney has ever made. (And this is a parade which contains the creepiest, glowing, grinning, spinning clowns in existence. *shudder*) It always frightened me.

What's interesting is that Disney recently announced that they're developing a live-action film about this guy. I'll admit--I'm scratching my head a bit on this one: 

“The segment in question is “Night On Bald Mountain,” named after the music of 19th-century Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, which the entire segment is set to. Night On Bald Mountain” centered on a dark winged demonic creature who was literally the size of a mountain, who raised spirits from the dead. The spirits then dance, fly around through the air and enjoy a night of mayhem until they are forced to retreat as the night ends and the sun begins to rise. Although the winged creature seems to be a representation of Satan, he’s actually a demon with the awesome name Chernabog."

 The Nerdist speculates that this adaptation might "follow in the vein of Maleficent so expect a script where we find out that Chernabog isn’t really evil, just misunderstood." It's an interesting theory...and one which I hope doesn't pan out, if only because I like my villains to be, well, villainous.

Plus, unless you're going in a Paradise Lost direction, I'm not entirely sure how you humanize a demon since they're...you know...demonic.  Apparently, though, the scriptwriters are the ones who wrote Dracula Untold which, while I haven't seen purports to do exactly that: humanize the demonic. *sigh*

The full clip from Fantasia can be seen below--so judge for yourselves!