Disney has shelved their planned animated fairy tale “Gigantic,” which would have been released in 2018 and put a spin on “Jack and the Beanstalk” by making the Giant a woman. The project ...

Disney Animation’s original feature project that was to have been released in 2020, is being shelved. The project was being developed as an updated take on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios has dropped development of “Gigantic,” its adaptation of the classic fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk.” “Sometimes, no matter how much we love an idea or ...

Instead Disney Animation is pursuing another project for that release date, the details of which are still TBD. In the revised tale directed by Meg LeFauve and Nathan Greno, Jack meets a female giant.

Jack has gone up the beanstalk in countless stories and movies, but now Disney is aiming to tell the “definitive” version of the story, with songs written by Oscar-winning Frozen songwriters ...