Disney has not been afraid to touch (and expurgate) literature and mythology before (see The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules). So why not the cthulhu mythos?
I can see it now. Cute little talking humans. The Great Old Ones singing of their voyage across the stars. A final war between alien beings stopped by the compassion and understanding of a few “insignificant” humans. And a lesson for everyone about how all sentient beings are equal, even if some of them taste good.
But I’d be curious to see what others say.
Some friends of ours have a drawing of Little Yuggie (Yog Sototh). “Little Yuggie wasn’t evil, just horribly, horribly misunderstood.”
Don’t forget that the Necronomicon should be carried by a big-eyed smiling O-So-CUTE(!) monkey or something. Heck, those characters drive me insane anyway, it’s just a short step to the book.
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As I’ve suggested in another thread, The Call of Cthulhu. Can’t you ust see it? A cute, fluffy “squash and stretch” Cthulhu (and who would be more appropriate for “squash and stretch”?) The cute, big-eyed Shub-Niggurath, The Sheep with a Thousand Young (easily beats 101 or even 102 Dalmations). The Folks from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, done up like Ariel and Triton and Sebastian. The Terrible Old Man and his Rings in the Bottles – like Genie. Cuddly Hastur and Nyarlathotep and Pickman with his Models. The great, clumsy, oversized Dunwitch Horror (with voice by Wayne Knight). And for the big finish, a whole collection of dancing Shoggoths in Busby-Berkeley-like dance number, with music by Elton John and Tim Rice.
Next, The Call of Cthulhu II. Coming only on video.
Be our guest,
Be our guest
As your planet we infest.
Kill a virgin for Cthulu;
Let Yog-soggoth do the rest!
You will find
That our kind
Drive you quite out of your mind;
As you face the Creeping Chaos,
Can your horror be suppressed?
Let’s be plain:
Please refrain
From a trip to central Maine,
Or you’ll end up dead, dismembered or possessed!
Come on and join us now!
We’ll conquer anyhow!
Don’t be blessed!
Be a pest!
Be our guest!
Can you just see it now, going to Mcthulhu’s where they have gotten into the spirit of the holidays (After all, this would be a christmas release, wouldn’t it?) garlands of intestines and other various organs hung with care along the roofs. And the promoted foods, Chicken Fingers (Cowards digits in a bright red sauce going brown), the Shuggoth Shake (Sucks you, not vice versa.), and of course, the Quarter Tonner.
[sub]Thanks to Stephan of FurryMuck for the original McThulhu’s on FM…want to find it? Just type ‘taxi’ in the Cafe Rose.[/sub]
“Do you believe in magic
(And I hope you do)
You soon will be enslaved
By the evil ooze…”
IIRC, in The Barsoom Project by Barnes/Niven, the sequel to Dream Park, there’s a throwaway reference to a musical comedy based on Lovecraft called The Fungi from Yuggoth. Sounds like a winner to me.
[sub]“Springtime for Hastur and Niggurath! Winter for humans and Earth…”[/sub]
How the hell do I buy me a Big Buddy Cthulhu? I hate to imagine what it’s stuffed with, but what the hell… I can always use it to drive my in-laws out of their minds.
