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Saintfighteraqua wrote: Narnia, LOTR, Harry Potter were never going to happen. Disney has no rights to those works outside of the first two Narnia films and besides maybe dropping in hints and lore, I don't think they could get by with it. Likewise with anything owned by non Disney studios.

Classic fairy Tales are public domain for the most part, as are the Wizard of Oz and Alice. It's surprising they were even able to use Peter Pan and Cruella, to be honest, even though Disney movies with those characters have been made, I believe the rights are tied up in a lot of ways. I am not even sure how much they contacted the owners of Peter Pan since they turned a character who represents a children's hospital into a monster.

I'm pretty sure reasons Glinda was referenced correctly as the "Witch of the South" and the Ruby Slippers appeared only as a mention and turned out to be the Silver Shoes is because of how controlling WB is over the rights to the musical version of the Wizard of Oz. They even attack fan works based on the public domain books because of it and made Disney come up with a new shade of green for Theodora. Probably Zelena, too.

There were lots of fairy tales left to do, it's just questionable if anyone would have recognized them. I believe if the show had continued we'd continue to get rehashes and probably start delving into Greco-Roman myth, Norse myths and stuf like that, since they already had shown signs of it. This is a good breakdown, but I also think we would have seen more literature that was in public domain. There are many stories that fall into this, and that people would recognize, more so than doing more obsucure fairy tales, or even lesser known myths.