Dylan Sprouse Explains Why He Left Disney Channel
6 views - published on June 1st, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldMaybe a Suite Life wasn’t so honeyed after all. As Amanda Bynes continues to make headlines, another former child star Dylan Sprouse, has non-stop adult about since he and his twin brother, Cole parted ways with a Disney Channel after 5 years of starring on their strike shows, The Suite Life of Zack Cody and The Suite Life on Deck.
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When a Sprouses initial arrived in Hollywood, they immediately drew comparisons to twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. After starring in opposite film roles, including 1999’s Big Daddy alongside Adam Sandler, a Sprouses were a building on a teen scene, once dubbed “the many successful twins” given a former Full House stars. From 2005 to 2008, they even had a chartering agreement with Dualstar Entertainment, that is owned by a Olsen siblings.
But according to Dylan, 20, life in a limelight and on Disney Channel was not all that magical. Now attending New York University with his brother, he says in a new YouTube video around Salon.com (it’s given been done private), that a siblings severed ties with a network because, he claims, Disney attempted to take their spin-off uncover idea, and denied them writer credits on a new show.
In a video, Dylan says he and Cole came adult with an thought for a show, suggesting that their characters, Zach and Cody, would lapse to a Tipton Hotel in Boston and live with their singular mother. The storyline afterwards introduced a new younger, masculine impression who would pierce into a hotel with his singular dad, and a twins would coach him, display them their ways.
The usually problem with their spin-off idea? Dylan recalls that Disney gave them a straight-up “no.”
“When we had pitched a idea, it was kind of this conditions where they had roughly laughed in a faces,” Dylan says.
A year later, however, a actor claimed that Disney executives came behind to them with radically a same accurate storyline. “They’re like, ‘Well, we pronounced no to your idea, let us representation we a thought that we came adult with for a subsequent deteriorate … Zack goes to work in Miami with Cody, they go to this hotel, and there’s this child who has a singular father and we guys lift him adult like he’s this expert of yours.”
Dylan says a meeting, where producers also told them they wouldn’t get writer credits, repelled them both.
“Cole and we incited to any other and we fundamentally laughed in their faces and walked out,” he said. “And that was a final assembly we had with Disney.”
Now holding a mangle from a spotlight, Dylan is studying video diversion pattern with a double vital in communication and studio art during NYU.
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Although Cole doesn’t seem in a video, it’s protected to contend he shares identical feelings with his twin brother.
Tweeting on Thursday, May 30, Cole seemed to ridicule a Disney Channel, writing, “Are @dylansprouse and we a usually Disney stars that didn’t pursue a singing career? #StillTimeForOurOompaBand #Sprouse.”
During their time on a Suite Life in 2010, they were a fourth top paid child actors in a world.