9:09 pm - 03/12/2013
Riding on the box office success of the James Franco-led "Oz: The Great and Powerful," Disney has plans for another adaptation of a childhood favorite, Deadline.com reports.
Disney is reportedly in talks to reinterpret the classic 1991 animated "Beauty and the Beast" as a live-action film called "The Beast."
Deadline reports that Joe Ahearne ("Trance") is in negotiations to write the script for "The Beast" and the film will likely screen in 3D.
A number of childhood reinterpretations have hit the box office as of late. Recent successes include "Oz: The Great and Powerful" and 2010's "Alice in Wonderland." Just in its first weekend, "Oz" brought in close to $80 million, while "Alice" reached a lifetime domestic gross of $334 million. However, others have not been so lucky. Recent releases "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" have struggled at the box office. Since its release in January, "Hansel and Gretel" has made $54 million, while "Jack" has brought in $43 million.
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'The Beast,' Live-Action 'Beauty And The Beast' Film, Under Development From Disney
Riding on the box office success of the James Franco-led "Oz: The Great and Powerful," Disney has plans for another adaptation of a childhood favorite, Deadline.com reports.
Disney is reportedly in talks to reinterpret the classic 1991 animated "Beauty and the Beast" as a live-action film called "The Beast."
Deadline reports that Joe Ahearne ("Trance") is in negotiations to write the script for "The Beast" and the film will likely screen in 3D.
A number of childhood reinterpretations have hit the box office as of late. Recent successes include "Oz: The Great and Powerful" and 2010's "Alice in Wonderland." Just in its first weekend, "Oz" brought in close to $80 million, while "Alice" reached a lifetime domestic gross of $334 million. However, others have not been so lucky. Recent releases "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" have struggled at the box office. Since its release in January, "Hansel and Gretel" has made $54 million, while "Jack" has brought in $43 million.
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They probably are going to use that "BUT WE WANT TO APPEAL TO BOYS TOO~~" marketing excuse but both girls and boys went and saw all those princess movies in the 90s. Frustrating.
"And the second reason was -- during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios -- I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You've got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist.
Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing."
Yeah. So, considering how successful Oz was, I'm guessing we're at the start of a trend.
This really bothers me ok
Edited at 2013-03-13 02:29 am (UTC)
The timeline of that movie really bugs me.
NHF a movie about the Beast and his main pain.
disney needs to realize that i'm too poor to spend money on their shit remakes
remake*prequel. the new trend as opposed to reboots because they can make the claim it's "original"Edited at 2013-03-13 02:20 am (UTC)
Sorry, I'm bitter about that plot point.
Edited at 2013-03-13 04:50 pm (UTC)
Altho no points for Gaston for his douchery either.
Edited at 2013-03-13 08:40 pm (UTC)
Twice.