Pete's Dragon Returns...

Kind of...

Many of us have wondered what some of the projects that Disney's new comic book company would be working on... Speculation has run from many theme park attractions to several lesser known films. I can tell you that one of the project it's working on....

It appears that Kingdom Comics is working on new stories featuring Elliot the lovable Dragon from "Pete's Dragon" back in those bellbottomed 70's. Not sure if or how much Pete will play into this, if at all, but the primary focus will be on Elliot.

It's not known if this will lead to a film project, but that was one of the original intentions of Kingdom; to develop properties that could be turned into games, television and film crossovers.

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Disney Creates Graphic Kingdom...

Walt Disney Studios has created a new imprint line called "Kingdom Comics" that will create new projects as well as reinterpretations of classic Disney live-action films in graphic novel form. The venture will be overseen by Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek. It's believed the line will also be the Mouse's attempt at creating comic book type creations that can then be plowed back into film or television adaptations. Essentially this could be seen as Oren Aviv's attempt to do an in-house version of what Marvel and DC have done with their creations(since Marvel and DC won't or can't be sold at this time). Kingdom Comics is supposed to announce a line up of writers and artists shortly.

It'll be interesting to see what they come up with... hopefully this won't go down in flames like the "Disney Comics" line from the early 90's.

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