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Robin Williams' Will Puts Disney in a Quandary

Former exec says plans for a fourth 'Aladdin' film have been scuttled

(Newser) – Robin Williams' innovative will locked down the use of his image for 25 years —and as a result, the Times of London says that Disney "has abandoned plans to make a fourth installment of the blockbuster Aladdin " animated film, in which Williams played the Genie. "When he was on form, the hyperactive motormouth we love from Good Morning Vietnam , Hook , Dead Poets Society , and Mrs Doubtfire , Robin was making 30 jokes a minute," a former Disney exec tells the paper, but much of it was left on the cutting room floor. "Now, because he insisted on a final say on such material, [the jokes] will remain in the vaults."

As io9 points out, Williams had a beef with Disney while he was alive— in 1993 , he said that Disney had agreed not to use his voice to market Aladdin merchandise, then reneged on that agreement. "We had a deal," he said. "The one thing I said was I will do the voice. I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything—as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff." But Disney ended up doing just that, he said: "They took a character I did and overdubbed it to sell stuff." ( Disney released never-before-seen Genie footage for the first time last month.)

http://www.newser.com/story/215795/robin-williams-will-puts-disney-in-a-quandary.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=earthlink&utm_campaign=rss_gossip

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seeder Randy 9 years ago

Robin Williams' innovative will locked down the use of his image for 25 years

Brilliant! If I were a celebrity I'd be calling my attorney right now telling them to include that in my will, except forever. Having someone having the right to use an image of you in a commercial to sell cough drops 20 years from now would sicken me.