The animated movie was based on Bambi, a Life in the Woods, a 1923 Austrian novel by Felix Salten that entered the public domain this year (along with A.A. Milne’s first Winnie-The-Pooh book).

Disney is in the middle of turning some of its classic animated films into live-action movies like "Maleficent," " Alice in Wonderland," " The Jungle Book," "Dumbo," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the ...