Disney doesn’t have to go far to exploit the killing of Osama bid Laden by the Navy Seal Team 6, they can just dip into the vast reservoir of their own film vault, and rework storylines
News Item: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6?
10. 101 Navy Seal Team 6’s (Navy Seal Team 6 disrupts Al Qaeda Suicide Dog attack)
9. Song of the Seal Team 6 (Human Interest Pic of first African-American in Seal Team 6)
8. Terrorists in the Outfield (Summer 2012 – Al Qaeda targets Game 7 of World Series, but Navy Seal Team 6 swoops in, foils plot and saves all the baseball players and fans)
7. That Darn Osama! (Navy Seal Team 6 adopts stray Islamic cat that leads them to Osama bin Laden)
6. The Shaggy Seal Team 6 (Navy Seal Team 6 shape-shifts into Old English Sheep dogs and herd all the terrorists into jail)
5. Honey, I Shrunk Osama Bin Laden (After accidentally shrinking Osama bid Laden, Navy Seal Team 6 gets shrunk to hunt down, and kill him)
4. Who Framed Osama bin Laden? (First Animated Navy Seal Team 6 pic; Bob Hoskins returns as the private detective and helps Navy Seal Team 6 work through an army of Disney, and other, cartoon characters, to track down Osama bin Laden and kill him)
3. The Absent-Minded Jihadist (With nod to original pic, Navy Seal Team 6 discover old Pentagon “Flubber” files and develop FlubbeAirplanes, and other weapons, to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden
2. 20,000 Terrorists Under The Sea (Water adventure, borrowingfrom “Pirates of the Caribbean’ – Disney sees multiple sequels with this)
1. The Navy Seal 6 King (Another animated pic, staying close to original, telling tale of young Navy Seal 6 team member, destined to become team leader, but has to deal with disgruntled team member, overcoming numerous plots to kill him, before youngster beats him back and emerges victorious, with other Team 6 members bowing to him)
Bonus Riffs
Richard K. Barry: Is Disney really going to trademark “SEAL Team 6”?
John Cook: Disney Trademarks ‘SEAL Team 6?
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