Yes I’ve jumped on the dreaded bandwagon, here is my re-imagining of Valentino for my Disney Wish rewrite.

Just to make this clear, I DON’T hate Wish as a film. In fact I find the film VERY over-hated; I personally don’t find it outright bad, just weak. So yes my rewrite will have all the original cut concepts that people prefer, predominantly Asha’s star boy love interest and Queen Amaya being a villain, with her and King Magnifico being an evil married couple Gomez and Morticia-style. But one other thing I didn’t particularly care for about Wish was Valentino, I just found him annoying and useless once he started talking.

So here I’ve redesigned Valentino instead as a female goat named Amalthea, and she doesn’t talk the whole film (or maybe she does, but she'd have the voice of a child and not Valentino's inexplicable obnoxious adult voice). My thought process for the name change is that Amalthea is sometimes an alternate name for the goat constellation Capricorn (because Amalthea in Greek mythology was the name of the goat that nursed Zeus as a baby) which makes Asha’s connection to the stars and astronomy even more powerful. Amalthea’s role in the story also follows some original concepts for Valentino in which she constantly tries and fails to climb objects, symbolizing the theme of never giving up. In my rewrite she also leads an army of animals to fight against Magnifico and Amaya, also a scrapped idea with Valentino.


And if anyone wants to hear my rewrite for the entire movie, welp feel free to read the equally long description below:

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So in this version Magnifico has the magic ability to harness the power of the stars in order to grant his own wishes. Eventually he gains the power to grant his kingdom's wishes too, but goes it under the false guise of helping them when in reality he's only doing it to help himself get more powerful (ngl the whole idea of Magnifico accepting a wish and then holding it but then granting a random wish at a wish ceremony got kind of convoluted after a while)

So Starboy enters the picture as a literal fallen star due to Magnifico abusing his power and sucking the power out of the stars causing them to die out quickly. And everything else from how Asha and the gang defeat Magnifico & Amaya I haven't thought out yet but you can probably see how my version is still trying to follow the movie's original message of "actually work to make your wishes come true and don't expect them to be granted."

Also I might just cut out all of Asha's friends and only keep Dahlia who had the most contribution to the plot (I KNOW they're based off the seven dwarves but they were just severely undeveloped and too forgettable for me).