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[Saturday Morning Cartoon] Walt Disney’s 1949 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Published

11 years ago

August 10, 2013

My life has been in complete chaos the past few weeks, so I’ve regretfully missed out on a few Saturday Morning Cartoon features. That ends today as we’ve taking inspiration from a new television series.

With Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow” being reborn for the small screen, we’re sharing with you Disney’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” short film from way back in 1949. It was included in the feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

“In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.”

The 30-minute short was directed by Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney, and featured voice work of the legendary Bing Crosby, Pinto Colvig, and The Rhythmaires.

Brad Miska

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Movies

New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

Published

18 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.