Who is Smokestack Sam?

This topic is about the movie The Magic 7. Now the Magic 7 is an upcoming made for tv animation live action hybrid fantasy movie that has been in development hell since the 1990s.




Now this movie is said to have a stella cast including quite a few well known actors and actressess including Michael J. Fox, Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones (Darth Vader for you Star Wars fans out there and Mufassa for those Disney fans).



Now two of the voice cast members are deceased but recorded the voice for their respective characters in the early 90's and those two are Madeline Kahn and John Candy.



Madeline Kahn's character is named Wastra, now I don't have any idea on what she looks like, but i'm guessing she must be some kind of sorceress. I'm guessing she looks like a cross between Malecifent from Sleeping Beauty and Queen Narrissa from Enchanted except that she probably isn't evil.



As for John Candy's character, I think that Smokestack Sam is either somekind of dragon or a cross between Genie from Aladdin and Sulley from Monsters Inc. Because that seems like the kind of character John would do the voice for considering he did work in animation before, he supplied some character voices in the animated sci fi film Heavy Metal, was the voice of Wilbur the albtratross in Rescuers Down Under and voiced himself in his own cartoon series Camp Candy. I also read somewhere that he was considered for the voice of Genie in Aladdin and coincidentally so was Steve Martin, and both of them were in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. He also recorded several voice drafts for a character in Pocahontas - a turkey named Redfeather to be exact. Now Redfeather was supposed to be Pocahontas's sidekick and the comic relief. But when he died, the character got removed and replaced with Meeko and Flit.



You can find a clip of a very early pencil test of the character Redfeather which also has Percy (Governor Ratcliffe's pet dog) talking as well. Many of the lines Redfeather says are taken from John's character in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.


Now if my estimations are correct, I think that John's voice may have been removed from the final cut of the movie The Magic 7 either that or the producers are planning on replacing him. If so, I hope that they get Tino Insana to voice the character as he is a John Candy soundalike, in fact quite a few of the characters he voices are a lot like JC, including Uncle Jojo in Pepper Ann, Pig from Back At The Barnyard, and Ted from Bobby's World. So naturally he would be the right choice to take over voice duties for that particular character. Also he could voice Chumsley the werejohncandy if i were to make my closetm monster stories into a tv series or movie.