They are trying to build up material to drive their eventual lobbying for extending IP rights to lifetime of creator plus 2000 years. They are just looking back

They are trying to build up material to drive their eventual lobbying for extending IP rights to lifetime of creator plus 2000 years. They are just looking back through their portfolio going “what’s easy to remake somehow” and going with photorealistic remakes of all the animal movies was an easy one. Remember. Disney is a theme-park & toy company that does movies as commercials/branding. But the first two businesses are critically dependent on retaining all the IP rights for the movies in perpetuity.