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It’s a great time to be a nineties kid, with Power Rangers coming back to the big screen and looking awesome and then you have Disney bring to life classic films like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Mulan.
Now, the next animated classic from the Mouse House getting the live-action adaptation treatment is Aladdin!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is looking to hire Guy Ritchie to direct with a script written by John August (Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charles Angels) and there sources say will keep many of the original music.
THR adds Disney are looking to tell an ambitious and non-traditional story, which looks to be in Ritchie’s wheelhouse.
The studio is still undecided about how they want to approach the Genie, which remains to be the lasting legacy of Robin Williams for us millennials and he is the reason why this film is iconic.
Ritchie directing any Disney film let alone Aladdin is a left field hiring from the studio, but it could work. All of Ritchie’s films have the same quick, snappy, funny dialogue and it could work between Aladdin and the Genie. It’s just his recent films haven’t really seemed to get a big audience, so it’ll be interesting how well King Arthur does with critics and at the box-office.
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