EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) has entered negotiations to direct a live-action Tangled movie for Disney, Deadline can reveal.
A contemporary retelling of the basic Rapunzel fairy story by the Brothers Grimm, Tangled is being described as a revival of Disney’s Oscar-nominated 2010 animated function of the identical identify, which was the fiftieth put out by the studio. Plot particulars are beneath wraps however the movie is predicted to comply with alongside the traces of the animated model.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the multi-hyphenate behind titles like Do Revenge, Thor: Love and Thunder and Sony’s upcoming reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, penned the latest draft of the script. Kristin Burr and Lucy Kitada will produce for Burr! Productions. No phrase but on casting.
Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, the unique Tangled starred Mandy Moore as Rapunzel, a spirited younger princess with magical, golden hair who escapes from her remoted tower for the primary time to expertise the world, embarking on an journey with a captivating thief (Zachary Levi), solely to find her true identification and face the harmful fact in regards to the lady (Donna Murphy) who saved her captive. A popular culture phenomenon, the movie grossed over $590 million worldwide, scored an Oscar nomination for authentic tune “I See the Light,” and was among the many movies revitalizing Disney’s princess style for a brand new technology. Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater had been behind the movie’s music.
Tangled is overdue for a brand new function increasing the franchise, as the one tasks the unique has spurred to date are Tangled Ever After, a brief that performed earlier than a 3D theatrical re-release of Beauty and the Beast and on Disney Channel, and the Disney Channel animated collection Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. In the years following its launch, there was speak about an animated sequel that by no means got here to fruition. There have, nonetheless, been rumblings a few live-action movie for a while now, with Zachary Levi pitching Timothée Chalamet to play Flynn in a brand new movie for Disney.
Gracey is greatest recognized for his directorial debut, The Greatest Showman, one of many highest grossing live-action musicals of all time, starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, which took in additional than $435 million worldwide and earned various main accolades, together with a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Most just lately, he co-wrote, directed and produced Better Man, a semi-autobiographical musical about British pop icon Robbie Williams, through which he’s portrayed as a chimpanzee. Premiering at Telluride, the movie will probably be launched within the U.S. by Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day. Upcoming, he’s additionally slated to direct Paramount’s adaptation of the bestselling youngsters’s ebook, Nevermoor, and can produce and direct a musical primarily based on the lifetime of opera singer Luciano Pavarotti for the West End.
Robinson co-wrote, directed and produced Do Revenge, a darkish teen comedy starring Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke, which launched on Netflix in September 2022. Co-writer alongside Taika Waititi on his Marvel pic Thor: Love and Thunder, she previous to that wrote, directed and exec produced Netflix’s 2019 rom-com Someone Great, starring Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow, and DeWanda Wise, in her function debut. Upcoming, she’s set to direct the subsequent movie in Sony’s I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise from her script written with Sam Lansky, off a draft by Leah McKendrick.
Past tasks for Burr! Productions embody Nicolas Cage comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Batgirl, which Warner Bros wound up shelving, controversially.
Both Gracey and Robinson are with CAA. Gracey can be repped by Partizan and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum; Robinson by Gotham/Principal, Gotham Group, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
