La Bella e la Bestia - Live Action (Miniserie TV Prequel su Gaston e Le Tont), Disney+ Opzioni

[veu]

perché Bridgerton? per il cast multietnico? o per le tematiche o lo stile antologico?

comunque è normale che guardino a serie come Bridgerton dato il successo avuto l'anno scorso...

[Daydreamer]

Esatto, con buona pace della coerenza storica. Ma qualcuno penserà...È una phiabah!!
Lo guarderò comunque, ma io al multiculturalismo facile cinematografico e seriale di oggi mi devo ancora abituare. Purtroppo la mia sospensione di incredulità fa molta fatica.

[Under the sea]

Più che altro a me da molto fastidio che il multiculturalismo viene adottato solo in Europa.
In Mulan non era presente neanche una persona bianca o nera(cosa giustissima eh),e guai se osano cambiare etnia a una delle principesse non bianche.
La non vale il discorso "è una fiaba" bah...

[Daydreamer]

Si dà spazio a una cultura e ci si priva di un'altra...Cancel Culture, Folks! :/

[nicolino]

Solo a me sa di disagio puro la sola idea di questa serie? Più disagievole di questa, solo quella dedicata al principe scemo di Aladdin (ovviamente personaggio ridicolo che ha fatto ridere solo a loro, e unico personaggio bianco del cast).
Non sprecherò manco un secondo per guardarla.

[Under the sea]

Io mi chiedo come faranno a farla amalgamare bene con il film.
Come fanno a renderci simpatico un personaggio che poi farà quello che farà nella bella e la bestia.
Non possono neanche riscriverlo(come per malefica o Crudelia) visto che questo è un diretto prequel del live action.
Bah...

[Hiroe]

Fanno per fare ciccia, e a me questa cosa non piace. Il progetto mi sembra inutile ma un certo spessore lo dovrebbe avere, viste le parti coinvolte. Credo che a me non piacerà, ma questa serie ci farà capire in che direzione vogliono andare gli studios e che tipo di serie per Disney+ ci riserverà il futuro.

[Daydreamer]

Quoto Hiroe e comunque per Gaston immagino l'ennesimo e stancante "passaggio al lato oscuro", qualcuno gli spezzerà il cuore, subirà forse dei torti, succederà qualcosa che lo renderà il villain che conosciamo, immagino...Ma senza esagerare però (non sia mai)...Sulla scorta di quanto fatto, in qualche modo, da Emma Stone e la sua Crudelia.

[veu]

ma crediamo anche noi che ci sarà qualcosa che spingerà Gaston a passare al lato oscuro... per poi metterlo in linea con il film
queste storie dei villain giocano sul renderli "umani"... e questo avrà modo di esplorare in una serie lunga il passaggio al dark side di Gaston
anche se crediamo che oltre a Gaston e Letont (che si chiamerà Louie nella serie) si concentreranno anche sui nuovi personaggi (Tilly, il Principe Benoit, l'artista Jean-Michael, altri in arrivo) e sui già noti (tra cui Agata, già indicata) per creare trama... del resto sono gli autori di C'era una volta che stanno lavorando alla serie e crediamo sia una trama ad incastro come la loro precedente opera... un racconto più corale e non solo incentrato su Gaston e Letont

più che altro pensavamo... se la serie avrà successo (cosa probabile visto che si basa su storie note), faranno quella sorta di sequel con Gaston che anziché morire è diventato una Bestia (idea considerata al momento dell'uscita nelle sale del film nel 2017 e in linea con il finale del film di Cocteau) e deve trovare una ragazza (o al giorno d'oggi anche un ragazzo) grazie al quale comprendere cosa significa essere buoni e superare il lato oscuro per spezzare l'incantesimo?

[Daydreamer]

Cavolo, è la prima volta che sento parlare di questo Gaston Sequel. Non nascondo che mi incuriosirebbe non poco, in particolare se ci fosse un plot twist gay, sarebbe già destinato a diventare iconico nella comunità e non solo.

[veu]

Alessio, l'articolo è qua:

Dal sito The Wrap:

Original ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Script Included Sequel Tease for Luke Evans’ Gaston

Screenwriters, producer tell all at TheWrap Awards Screening Series

An original draft of Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” included a window for a sequel to the worldwide billion-dollar box office hit.

The screenwriters and producer of the lush Bill Condon fairytale said an earlier script did not deal Luke Evans’ homme fatale Gaston the grim fate he got — but left the door open for another film.

“The idea was not that he died in the end, but the enchantress would come and he would be cursed as the new beast,” Evan Spiliotopoulos, who along with Stephen Chbosky wrote the script, said at a Q&A for TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The enchantress would be the same one who turned Dan Stevens’ elitist, shallow prince into a cloven-hoofed monster for not giving her shelter in his humongous palace during a storm.

Spiliotopoulos said talks went very far for Evans’ character to “run off into the world as the new beast, whether to be redeemed or come back as a villain.”

The studio reversed course on the decision in the “eleventh hour,” Spiliotopoulos said, to stick with the more traditional story.

Here are two other “Beauty and the Beast” secret we learned:

In the new version, Gaston Suffers From PTSD

Spiliotopoulos anchored his characters in a deep historical reality (the animated classic wasn’t that far off either, considering). “Beast” takes place at the turn of the 19th Century, Spiliotopoulos said, and Evans’ soldier Gaston has just returned from battle a different man than when he left.

“This is the end of the 100 years war, so Gaston was a soldier. Female illiteracy is at 80 percent, so Belle is teaching girls to read. Once you ground them and make them part of a historical context it grounds it in reality,” Spiliotopoulos said.

“For a Disney villain that’s pretty high brow,” chimed in Chbosky, who wrote a second draft.

Belle Entered the 21st Century Thanks to Daughter-Dad Movie Nights

Chbosky had been off the grid dealing with a family medical issue for eight months when the call came to write for the project.

“When I took on the project, my wife’s father had a stroke and went to New Jersey to get him on his feet. He’s great now, which is great, but I was off the gird for eight months not really working. In those eight months, I watched all these princess moves with my daughter,” he said.

“When I saw them through her eyes and her experience, it became very profound and personal to me. I realized how powerful these role models were, how she wanted to be like Belle and dress like Ariel,” he continued.

Chbosky was most proud of evolving Belle’s instincts.

“I tried to give my daughter advice. If a beast kidnaps you, maybe don’t cry. Try to escape. Also something David and Bill Condon let me do, I so wanted her to escape by ripping up a dress [to use as a rope],” he said.

“Beauty and the Beast” is proving an awards player this year, with four Critic’s Choice Award nominations. Two original songs from the film, “Evermore” and Celine Dion’s “How Does a Moment Last Forever,” are also on the shortlist in the Best Original Song Oscar race.


Dal sito Cinemablend:

The Live Action Beauty And The Beast Almost Got A Sequel, Here's What It Would Have Been About

Disney's Beauty and the Beast is the number one highest-grossing film of the year, both foreign and domestic, although I imagine it will have to settle for number two before long. The live-action remake of Disney's animated classic was a hit with audiences and critics alike, and continued the hot streak that really kicked off with Cinderella. So it would come as a surprise to no one if Disney was planning a sequel to the tale as old as time, and it turns out, that was originally the plan. We now know that the end of Beauty and the Beast was originally different and was intended to lay the groundwork for a follow-up, which would have focused on that villainous consumer of eggs, Gaston. As Beauty and the Beast screenwriter, Evan Spiliotopoulos explained.

The idea was not that he died in the end, but the enchantress would come and he would be cursed as the new beast.

It turns out that this idea went pretty far, with the intention of having Luke Evans' new beast running off into the world for his own chance at redemption. The same enchantress who cursed Dan Stevens' Beast would have again taught a harsh lesson to someone in need of it. However, according to The Wrap, Disney changed course at the eleventh hour and decided to stick with the more traditional telling in line with the 1991 animated classic. This certainly would have been a stark difference from the ending we got, and as it stands now, the enchantress would have to perform some resurrection before using the transfiguration spell on Gaston.

While this is a neat idea, I don't know that it would have worked. While Luke Evans' portrayal of Gaston is a highlight of the film, I don't know that audiences would have found him redeemable. His backward views, sexism and maliciousness are far more ingrained character traits than the Prince's shallowness and vanity. Plus how do you tell the story of Gaston trying to break the spell in a way that doesn't follow the same beats. This is where it is tricky to find the balance between a cash grab and taking creative chances. One of the criticisms of Disney's live-action remakes, especially Beauty and the Beast, is that they play it too safe. They hew too close to the warm and fuzzy sameness that audiences grew up with without taking chances. While this Gaston twist may have been an interesting departure from the animated film, it sounds like it would have been an unnecessary attempt to cash in on a sequel while basically telling the same story.

It appears that for now, there are no plans for a sequel to Beauty and the Beast, but there are other ways Disney could go should it choose to pursue one. Besides, Disney already has a lot on its plate with Christopher Robin hitting next year and a whole slew of remakes coming in 2019. You can check out all of Disney's upcoming live action remakes of its animated classics in our guide. For all the latest in your favorite childhood animated films now being animated by computers, stay tuned to CinemaBlend.

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E qui un altro articolo:

Dal sito Cinemablend:

Could Beauty And The Beast’s Disney+ Prequel Renew Interest In A Sequel? Here’s What Dan Stevens Says

You can never tell which Disney live-action remakes are going to land and which ones are going to flop. However, even with all the confidence in the world that 2017’s Beauty and The Beast would find itself in the former category, no one could have predicted how massive it would eventually become. It’s gotten to the point where a Disney+ prequel series is in the works, and now fans are probably wondering: could this new series spark a renewed interest in a follow-up movie? The Beast himself, actor Dan Stevens, certainly has some thoughts on the subject.

I was lucky enough to ask Mr. Stevens about this subject when we sat down to talk about his latest film I’m Your Man. Playing a humanoid robot named Tom, this new character in Dan Stevens’ insanely impressive resume is a world away from the formerly cursed Disney prince. Between his own immense pride for partaking in the project and all of the talk surrounding Luke Evans and Josh Gad’s Disney+ prequel Little Town, it’s hard not to ask questions. In his answer about a hypothetical Beauty and the Beast sequel, Stevens provided the following musings:

"Well, I...who knows? I think anything’s possible, with that kind of news. So yeah, we’ll just have to see".

The concept of a sequel to Beauty and the Beast’s flesh and blood retelling isn’t something that’s come out of the blue. The original ending to the 2017 remake would have actually seen Gaston cursed by the same enchantress that turned Dan Stevens into his hairier self. Though even if that idea is 100% scrapped, Emma Watson has provided even more ideas for a hypothetical Beauty and the Beast 2, which could focus on how the now-human Beast deals with his second chance at life, as well as Belle’s potential career as a schoolteacher. Ideas are not in short supply, should Disney want to wave its wand.

What’s even more interesting is the fact that Beauty and the Beast was budgeted, on the high end, at an estimated $255 million. Now granted, Disney might be a little shy to fork over that much cash to a sequel. That being said, in light of $1.26 billion the first film raked in during its box office run, and Dan Stevens’ fond memories of the project, you’d think there would be some sort of movement four years later.

The best hope for Beauty and the Beast’s potential sequel almost totally lies with how Little Town performs on Disney+. Though Dan Stevens certainly hasn’t written off the prospect of getting back into his beastly habits. So the future might truly bring anything, if the ideas are flowing, and the higher ups see the world still under the spell of that tale as old as time.

For the moment, the good news is that you can see Dan Stevens winning hearts through the rumba and the German language when I’m Your Man opens in theaters on September 24. Which is also a great reminder that the next movie you fall in love with might be on the 2021 release schedule right this very moment. And if you want to relive the magic of Beauty and the Beast, in either of its forms, check out The Disney Bundle, which grants you access to Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ for one convenient subscription.

[Daydreamer]

Cavolo e non è detto che un sequel non venga nuovamente riconsiderato nell'eventualità che la serie tv prequel abbia successo grazie veu.

[veu]

Da Twitter:

Moviebuff1219 @dodgerfan4life9:

Beauty and the Beast will start filming in February in London for Disney Plus. #beautyandthebeast #disneyplus #disneyfilming #joshgad #lukeevans


Crediamo che più che l'inizio delle riprese sarà l'inizio delle prove, le riprese saranno in primavera.
Da quel che si legge la serie verrà girata a Londra.
Saranno quindi riusciti a trovare un accordo con Horowitz e Kitsis che dopo il fallimento di Epic (il cui pilot fu ripreso in Irlanda) non volevano più che le loro serie fossero girate fuori dal continente americano per avere maggior controllo?
Si comprende che girino a Londra, là ci sono i teatri di posa usati per il film e forse qualche set riescono a recuperare... non pensiamo abbiano smantellato tutto, qualcosa sarà rimasto o comunque i set saranno facilmente recuperabili...

[veu]

Dal sito DeadLine:

‘Beauty And The Beast’: Rita Ora Joins Disney+ Prequel Series

British pop star Rita Ora is joining Disney+’s Beauty and the Beast prequel series.

Ora, who is best known for pop hits such as Your Song and Anywhere, will play a fugitive with surprising abilities who carries with her a secret that could potentially affect an entire kingdom in the eight-episode limited musical series.

A regular fixture on British musical reality series, Ora has previously starred in Fifty Shades of Grey as well as starring as the Artful Dodger in 2021 feature film Twist.

She joins Luke Evans and Josh Gad, who are reprising their roles as Gaston and LeFou. Briana Middleton, Fra Fee and Jelani Alladin also star.

Beauty and the Beast was developed and written by Gad and Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, with the trio serving as executive producers/co-showrunners.

Set in the iconic kingdom of Beauty and the Beast years before the Beast and Belle’s epic romance, the series will follow Gaston (Evans) and LeFou (Gad) as they set off with LeFou’s step-sister, Tilly (Middleton), after a surprising revelation from her past comes to light, sending the unlikely trio off on an unexpected journey filled with romance, comedy, and adventure. While the mysteries of the past are uncovered and the dangers of the present grow, old friends and new enemies reveal that this familiar kingdom harbors many secrets.

Tony Award-nominated director Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed) will direct the first episode. EGOT Award-winning composer Alan Menken, who scored both the 1991 and 2017 Beauty and the Beast movies, is writing the soundtrack of the series, with lyrics for the first episode by Oscar-nominee Glenn Slater (Tangled). Tommy, Menken and Evans are also executive producing.

Beauty and the Beast is from Disney Branded Television and ABC Signature. Production will begin in spring 2022.

[Daydreamer]

Cast insolito e curioso. Magari sarà la maga.

[veu]

ma intendi Agata?
dici che faranno un recast perché più giovane?

[Hiroe]

La donna di Waititi, l'ho sentita dire perché qualche mese fa girarono delle foto scandalose tra questa coppia e Tessa Thompson... Ormai con Google news sono aggiornata su questi inutili scoop XD

[Daydreamer]

Ma è La Bella e la Bestia oppure La Principessa e il Ranocchio? Il cognome Lafayette è tipico di New Orleans...Ma saremo ancora in Francia? E' chiaro che questo film ha giusto due protagonisti ma nulla a che fare con il film di partenza, mi auguro che il titolo sia tutto tranne che un richiamo a quel film, altrimenti il tutto sembra piuttosto ridicolo.

Da The Disinsider

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon D. Clarke Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Prequel Series

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen Fra Fee, Jellani Alladin, and – most recently – Rita Ora join the cast of the upcoming Beauty and the Beast prequel over at Disney+. Today, we can exclusively confirm yet another actor’s involvement with the project.

Thanks to sources close to The DisInsider, we now know that English actress and singer Sharon D. Clarke will also appear in the series.

She’ll play a series regular named Claire Lafayette. Described as a regal woman, she is the overprotective matriarch of the noble Lafayette family. Despite living life as an elite aristocrat, and wanting nothing but a stable life for her children, she has a secret. Lafayette was once a swashbuckling adventurer. At some point, her past comes back to thrust her into the series’ action.

Clarke may not be a household name, but she has a distinguished career with roles spanning the screen and stage. She’s been awarded the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award numerous times, and most recently appeared on Doctor Who.

Now, in addition to Sharon D. Clarke’s casting, we can also confirm that the series will finally begin production next week. It’s expected to continue into the Spring.

In the series, Luke Evans and Josh Gad will return to reprise their roles of Gaston and LeFou respectively, with newcomer Briana Middleton also attached a new lead character named Tilly. It is unknown if other characters from 2017’s billion-dollar hit Beauty and the Beast will make an appearance in the series.

After a shocking revelation from Tilly’s past arises, she, Gaston, and LeFou will set off on the adventure of a lifetime that will reunite them with old friends and new rivals, all while revealing many mysteries and secrets their kingdom has been harboring for years.

Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who previously created and oversaw the wildly popular ABC series Once Upon A Time, will serve as show-runners of this series alongside Josh Gad. They will also contribute as writers.

Kitsis, Horowitz, and Gad will all also executively produce the series with the legendary Alan Menken. Unsurprisingly, Menken will also provide the music for the series. Liesl Tommy (RESPECT) will also executively produce, but most importantly she’ll direct the series – as we previously reported – too.

[veu]

ma Lafayette è anche un cognome Francese... a New Orleans è presente per il quartiere francese (dove è ambientata La Principessa e il Ranocchio)...
secondo noi questa Claire è la madre segreta di Tilly la sorellastra di LeTont...

dalla descrizione sembra che useranno lo stile di Once upon a time (dei medesimi realizzatori) cioè una serie con due piani temporali (il passato con i racconti della vita pregressa dei vari personaggi e quello contemporaneo alla narrazione)...

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Dal sito The Hollywood reporter

Beauty and the Beast’ Prequel Series Put on Hold at Disney+

A delay with creative elements and scheduling challenges has forced the streamer to delay the feature film spinoff starring Josh Gad and Luke Evans.

Beauty and the Beast’s TV spinoff has hit a speed bump.

Disney+ has put its musical prequel spinoff from its 2017 feature film on hold amid delays with creative elements and scheduling challenges with its cast. Sources close to the streamer say the show will eventually be made though it’s unclear if the cast, including film stars Josh Gad and Luke Evans, will be available when (and if) that comes to pass.

As THR exclusively reported in March 2020, the project was developed as a six-episode series that would feature Gad and Evans reprising their roles as Gaston and LeFou, respectively, in an origin story for the beloved characters. The show was picked up to series with an eight-episode order in June 2021 with Briana Middleton (The Tender Bar) cast as LeFou’s stepsister, Tilly.

Production on the show was set to begin this spring but pushed to the summer in Europe in a bid to film in beautiful weather. Sources note that some creative elements were not far enough along to accommodate that timeline. Scheduling challenges with the cast also are a factor as some talent had hard outs for other projects beginning in August. With the window of availability shrinking, Disney+ has opted to put the series on hold for the time being. The pandemic, it’s worth noting, has made scheduling a considerable challenge as actors, writers, directors and factors like soundstage and location availability was turned upside down following the industry-wide production shutdown in 2020.

Still, Disney decided against postponing the current timeline because of weather constraints in the U.K. as sources note few wanted the cheery musical to be filmed in gloomy weather.

The news comes days after Disney+ announced that British pop star Rita Ora was set to join the cast of the series, which also was to feature Fra Fee and Jelani Alladin. It’s unclear if the current cast will be able to return when and if a new timeline opens up.

Gad, who was set to serve as showrunner alongside Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, has a packed schedule with a central voice role in Apple’s animated comedy Central Park and stars in Peacock’s Wolf Like Me. Evans, who next appears in the live-action Pinocchio for Disney, has Apple’s Echo 3 lined up, among other projects.

Gad, Kitsis, Horowitz and EGOT-winner Alan Menken were all signed on to exec produce the Beauty and the Beast prequel, with the latter set to compose the soundtrack. Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed, Respect) was attached to direct the pilot. Evans was to be credited as an exec producer. Gad, Kitsis and Horowitz were all involved in writing the scripts. ABC Signature is the studio.

Kitsis and Horowitz remain based at ABC Signature with a sizable overall deal. The Beauty and the Beast prequel stemmed from Kitsis and Horowitz’s time working with Gad on the scrapped Muppets Live Another Day comedy series that was in the works for months at Disney+. The trio created the project, which was to be an eight-episode limited series that took place after the events of Muppets Take Manhattan. Conversations about the untitled Beauty and the Beast prequel began shortly after the trio decided to depart Muppets.

All told, Kitsis and Horowitz have had a rough go of it in recent months with their Muppets take at Disney+ and Apple’s Amazing Stories order shrinking from 10 episodes to five.

Disney+ has had its fair share of creative stumbles since its launch a couple years ago, with Muppets as well as fairy tale themed drama Book of Enchantment and the Lizzie McGuire revival all imploding before coming to fruition.

Released in 2017, the live-action Beauty and the Beast feature grossed more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. It was slated to become the latest Disney intellectual property to get the TV series treatment at the streamer, joining a growing slate of Marvel and Star Wars titles as well as Pixar’s Monsters, Inc., High School Musical, National Treasure, The Santa Clause, Willow, Swiss Family Robinson, Percy Jackson, The Sandlot, Turner & Hooch and The Mighty Ducks, among others.

[Daydreamer]

Sempre peggio, se alla fine salteranno Gad e soprattutto Evans, tanto vale cestinare la produzione o, come credo da un pò, farne un qualcosa di diverso e autonomo e lontano da La Bella e la Bestia, perchè già si capisce che con quello non avrà niente a che fare, se non per riferimenti labilissimi.

[Daydreamer]

Aggiornamento: pare che la serie sia stata proprio cancellata, non sospesa. Ecco cosa dichiara sui social The Disinsider:

Sadly, the upcoming Gaston and Lefou Beauty and the Beast prequel series will not move forward at Disney+, Deadline has learned. The decision comes as the lead cast of the eight-episode series had been assembled ahead of the planned summer 2022 shoot in the U.K. Per the site, the series was canceled due to creative reasons, with the scripts not coming together in the direction expected for the offshoot and the creation of original music running behind schedule.....

Ho magiato da subito la foglia sulla mancata, incoerente e confusa direzione che stava assumendo questo progetto. Poteva essere curiosa come serie, ma con quel cast sembrava di trovarsi di fronte a qualcosa di dissimile, trash e stancamente politicamente corretto. Triste scelta ma l'approvo.

[Fulvio84]

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