“Tangled” is the most recent Disney film to get the live-action remedy.
The studio is creating a reimagining of the 2010 animated film, a musical tackle the Brothers Grimm story in regards to the magically long-haired princess Rapunzel. “The Greatest Showman” filmmaker Michael Gracey is in talks to direct the movie from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, whose credit embrace Netflix’s campy darkish comedy “Do Revenge, “Thor: Love and Thunder” and the upcoming “I Know What You Did Last Summer” reboot. Casting has but to be introduced.
“Tangled” tells the story of Rapunzel, a princess (voiced by Mandy Moore) who’s ultimately rescued from her secluded tower by an outlaw named Flynn Rider. The well-reviewed movie opened 14 years in the past round Thanksgiving and generated $592 million on the international field workplace, which might have been a greater outcome had the film not reportedly carried a $260 million manufacturing finances. “Tangled,” which boasts the Oscar-nominated track “When Will My Life Begin,” impressed such spinoffs because the 2012 brief movie “Tangled Ever After” and 2017 TV sequence “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 movie initially struggled on the field workplace earlier than reaching sleeper-hit standing with greater than $450 million globally. Gracey’s newest mission is “Better Man,” a semi-autobiographical story about British musician Robbie Williams, who’s portrayed within the movie by a chimpanzee.
Disney has given quite a few animated movies the live-action remedy — together with “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo” and “The Little Mermaid” — to various levels of economic success. Up subsequent, “Snow White” and “Lilo & Stitch” will open in theaters in 2025 whereas “Moana,” starring Dwayne Johnson because the tattooed demigod Maui, is ready for 2026.
Deadline Hollywood first reported the information of Gracey’s attachement to “Tangled.”