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Disney looks set to bring a live action take on fairytale Beauty and the Beast to the cinema in the wake of box office success for its Wizard of Oz prequel Oz the Great and Powerful, according to Deadline.Disney looks set to bring a live action take on fairytale Beauty and the Beast to the cinema in the wake of box office success for its Wizard of Oz prequel Oz the Great and Powerful, according to Deadline.
The Hollywood studio has recruited Britain's Joe Ahearne, who wrote Danny Boyle's heist thriller Trance, to work on the screenplay for the project. The move follows Oz the Great and Powerful's $150m opening at the weekend – the highest of the year so far – and the $1.02bn success of Tim Burton's similarly revisionist Alice in Wonderland in 2010. Disney also has a live-action take on the Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent, arriving next year with Angelina Jolie as the evil queen.The Hollywood studio has recruited Britain's Joe Ahearne, who wrote Danny Boyle's heist thriller Trance, to work on the screenplay for the project. The move follows Oz the Great and Powerful's $150m opening at the weekend – the highest of the year so far – and the $1.02bn success of Tim Burton's similarly revisionist Alice in Wonderland in 2010. Disney also has a live-action take on the Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent, arriving next year with Angelina Jolie as the evil queen.
According to Deadline, Disney's latest version of Beauty and the Beast – the studio released a critically acclaimed animated version in the traditional hand-drawn musical style in 1991 – could be titled The Beast. All the studio's latest fairytale fantasies have been delivered through an alternative prism: Alice in Wonderland was a sequel of sorts, in which Alice returns to Lewis Carroll's subterranean netherworld as a teenager, while Oz the Great and Powerful recounts the wizard's arrival in Oz, and Maleficent examines the Sleeping Beauty story from the evil queen's perspective. From its title, Beast might be expected to go for a grimmer take on the story.According to Deadline, Disney's latest version of Beauty and the Beast – the studio released a critically acclaimed animated version in the traditional hand-drawn musical style in 1991 – could be titled The Beast. All the studio's latest fairytale fantasies have been delivered through an alternative prism: Alice in Wonderland was a sequel of sorts, in which Alice returns to Lewis Carroll's subterranean netherworld as a teenager, while Oz the Great and Powerful recounts the wizard's arrival in Oz, and Maleficent examines the Sleeping Beauty story from the evil queen's perspective. From its title, Beast might be expected to go for a grimmer take on the story.
Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, received solid if unspectacular reviews from critics but is being tipped as one of the year's biggest films. Its success helps put the box office failure of Disney's 2012 tentpole fantasy, John Carter, into perspective. The studio has since had a run of successful films, including the Annie-winning animation Wreck-It Ralph, which pulled in $435m; Pixar's Brave, which took $535m; and Marvel's The Avengers, which was the highest-grossing movie of the year with $1.5bn.Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, received solid if unspectacular reviews from critics but is being tipped as one of the year's biggest films. Its success helps put the box office failure of Disney's 2012 tentpole fantasy, John Carter, into perspective. The studio has since had a run of successful films, including the Annie-winning animation Wreck-It Ralph, which pulled in $435m; Pixar's Brave, which took $535m; and Marvel's The Avengers, which was the highest-grossing movie of the year with $1.5bn.
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