As many viewers who grew up with the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise may know, not all the Winnie-the-Pooh characters are featured in the film as Tigger, Kanga, Eeyore and others feature in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise but not in Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Frake-Waterfield is gearing up to make a Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel and did tease plans to add more characters to the Piglet/Pooh team. Given these restrictions, it seems as though Tigger won't be one of them.
Blood and Honey sees deranged versions of Pooh (Craig David Dowsett) and Piglet (Chris Cordell) take bloodthirsty vengeance on humanity in retribution for Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) leaving the creatures of the Hundred Acre Wood to fend for themselves when he goes off to college.
However, the filmmaker told SFX Magazine: "Tigger, for example, isn't in the public domain. So he wasn't allowed to be used in the story." Tigger's first appearance was in 1928 children's book 'The House At Pooh Corner', which hasn't yet entered public domain.
What Happened To Owl & Rabbit In Blood & Honey? Why They Don't Kill With Pooh & Piglet. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey's opening scene confirms that the characters Owl and Rabbit were abandoned by Christopher Robin with Pooh and Piglet.
The script itself is full of the most boring and cringe-worthy dialogue ever heard by man. It felt like the characters were indirectly talking and narrating to the audience as a result. The plot was also incredibly boring with an unnecessary side story.
Things take a dark turn, though, when Christopher goes to college, starvation sets in during winter and Pooh, Piglet, Owl and Rabbit kill and eat their buddy Eeyore. The incident essentially breaks them and they become enemies of mankind, making a pact to become feral and never speak like humans again.
While Tigger may not feature in the cast of Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey, the character may appear in future franchise films. In fact, the copyright restriction is due to expire soon, and Tigger will actually enter public domain in 2024.
The characters' rights had been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1966 and, while Disney retains exclusive rights to the depictions of these characters from their own franchise, the first Winnie-the-Pooh book went into the public domain in the US on 1 January 2022.
Production of the film became possible in 2022 after A. A. Milne's novel "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926) entered the public domain in the U.S., which marked the first appearances of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin, thus lapsing the characters into the public domain.
Owl and Rabbit only appear at the beginning of Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey, but it is not clear what happened to them.
Christopher Robin is the central protagonist of the 2023 horror film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a horror adaptation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard.
Piglet is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 British independent slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey written, directed, and coproduced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and is loosely based on the character from the Winnie-the-Pooh book series by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard.
Like Doyle's short stories still under copyright protection, elements from A.A. Milne's second book, The House at Pooh Corner, are not yet in the public domain. Tigger was first introduced in this second book, and therefore is still copyright protected and cannot be used without a proper license.
Type of Hero
Tigger is one of the main characters of Disney's 2018 live-action movie Christopher Robin.
Kanga is the only female character to appear in the books and in most Winnie-the-Pooh media. She was based on a stuffed toy that belonged to Christopher Robin Milne. Kanga is kind-hearted, calm, patient and docile.
He expects that his family will show up unannounced, and when they do not come, Tigger worries that they have been caught in a dangerous storm. Tigger never finds other Tiggers. Thankfully, he does not renounce his efforts to find other Tiggers, but he does accept his friends as his family.
Tigger is a toy and therefore does not have any relatives.
Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Pooh Bear, or simply Pooh) is the titular main antagonist of the 2023 British independent slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey written, directed, and co-produced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and is loosely based on the Winnie-the-Pooh book series by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard.
When Pooh, Piglet, and the other Hundred Acre Wood residents are abandoned by Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon), they struggle to fend for themselves. While suffering extreme starvation, Pooh makes the decision to kill and eat Eeyore.
The film narrates the story of Pooh and Piglet after Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) abandons them. Pooh and Piglet are left to survive, so they turn feral.
Not yet, but it looks like it won't take long. In an interview with Variety, Frake-Waterfield confirmed that he's already in the process of writing the Blood and Honey sequel. While there's no official release date, he's aiming for a February 2024 release.