LOS ANGELES — The earliest version of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, hardly 2 days in the public domain.
Slashed complimentary of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the renowned character from “Steamboat Willie” is currently the focus of 2 scary movies. On Monday, simply hours after the 1928 brief wentinto the public domain, a trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled movie was revealed Tuesday.
“Steamboat Willie” included early variations of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, it was the 3rd animation including the duo they made however the veryfirst to be launched. In it, a more enormous Mickey, bearing more similarity to rat than mouse, captains a boat and makes musical instruments out of other animals.
It’s maybe fitting, then, that the veryfirst tasks revealed are apparently low-budget and campy slasher films — and not unmatched. Winnie the Pooh — sans red t-shirt — gotin the public domain in 2022; hardly a year lateron, he was notching up a heavy body count in the microbudget “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
In the trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap,” directed by Jamie Bailey, what appears to