“Tangled” is the latest Disney movie to get the live-action treatment.
Disney is on a roll with taking stories from animated films and turning them into a live action remake. Honestly, this concept is one that I’m not a super fan of, but I actually am looking forward to the new Lilo and Stitch live action movie. Tangled is by far my absolute favorite Disney animated film, and now it’s getting remade too. I don’t know how I feel about this one, the original has such a positive message. Rapunzel and Flynn (or Eugene if you’d rather) have the perfect story, it’s something relatable and certainly touched my heart personally. Not many details have been given yet, but here’s what we found per Variety-
The studio is developing a reimagining of the 2010 animated movie, a musical take on the Brothers Grimm story about the magically long-haired princess Rapunzel. “The Greatest Showman” filmmaker Michael Gracey is in talks to direct the film from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, whose credits include Netflix’s campy dark comedy “Do Revenge, “Thor: Love and Thunder” and the upcoming “I Know What You Did Last Summer” reboot. Casting has yet to be announced.
“Tangled” tells the tale of Rapunzel, a princess (voiced by Mandy Moore) who is eventually rescued from her secluded tower by an outlaw named Flynn Rider. The well-reviewed film opened 14 years ago around Thanksgiving and generated $592 million at the global box office, which would have been a better result had the movie not reportedly carried a $260 million production budget. “Tangled,” which boasts the Oscar-nominated song “When Will My Life Begin,” inspired such spinoffs as the 2012 short film “Tangled Ever After” and 2017 TV series “Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure.”
Gracey made his directorial debut with 2017’s “The Greatest Showman,” the P.T. Barnum biographical musical drama starring Hugh Jackman. That film initially struggled at the box office before achieving sleeper-hit status with more than $450 million globally. Gracey’s latest project is “Better Man,” a semi-autobiographical story about British musician Robbie Williams, who is portrayed in the film by a chimpanzee.
Disney has given numerous animated films the live-action treatment — including “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo” and “The Little Mermaid” — to varying degrees of commercial success. Up next, “Snow White” and “Lilo & Stitch” will open in theaters in 2025 while “Moana,” starring Dwayne Johnson as the tattooed demigod Maui, is set for 2026.
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