Disney’s Princesses Get a Little Live Action
Cinderella is next in a line of old favorites the studio is reinventing
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For Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, Snow White and the Huntsman was like a bite out of a poison apple. It was the kind of story Walt Disney built his company around, but the 2012 film was released by rival Universal Studios, and the characters were played by live actors. “Why aren’t we doing that?” Horn recalls asking.
March 13 will bring the release of Cinderella, a live-action version of the 1950 Disney animated classic. It will be followed next year by a similar Disney redo of The Jungle Book. Beauty and the Beast and Dumbo remakes are in the works. (The studio hasn’t announced who will play Dumbo.)