The 3 Things That Disney Have Banned From Their Movies

Disney has produced some of the most successful films ever, but they are strict about keeping to rules to attain that success.

There are three things that Disney simply refuses to allow in its movies, and the writer and director of the upcoming Disney film, Pete's Dragon, has revealed these three massive no-no's. 

"When you sign a contract with Disney, the things it says your film cannot have are beheadings, impalement or smoking," David Lowery said.

"Those are literally the three things you are not allowed to put into a Disney film ... they literally have those words in the contract as things you're not allowed to do."

The smoking ban was introduced by Disney last year but there are a couple of exceptions.

"Disney has determined not to depict cigarette smoking in movies produced by it after 2015 (2007 in the case of Disney branded movies) and distributed under the Disney, Pixar, Marvel or Lucasfilm labels, that are rated G, PG or PG-13, except for scenes that:

• depict a historical figure who may have smoked at the time of his or her life; or

• portray cigarette smoking in an unfavourable light or emphasise the negative consequences of smoking."

The impalement ban obviously came into effect after 1989's The Little Mermaid in which Ursula was fatally wounded by the bow of a ship.

As the movies are targeted at children we'd say that these rules are fair enough!

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