Aladdin
Disneyhas announced a newfangled , bouncy - actionAladdinspinoff movie centered around Prince Anders is in product and destine to premiere on their new streaming service , Disney+ . The live actionAladdinremake was a world box office successdespite some mixed response by audiences and critics . This success was made all the more surprising afford Guy Ritchie was directing as Ritchie is best known and loved for his gangster clowning , which tend to be a spot grittier than a Disney melodious .
Disney has already spill aboutmaking a live - action subsequence toAladdin , and has also record serious loyalty to providing exclusive content for Disney+ alongside the big library of classic usable on the inspection and repair . There has been late bother forAladdinstar Mesa Massoud , however , who says he has beenunable to even get auditionssince the cinema came out . He has been able to get a office onHulu ’s novel mobster series , Reprisal , buthe had to getDisney to signal off on it . Prince Anders , meanwhile , is a new character written for the live actionAladdinplayed by Billy Magnussen , an doer possibly best cognise for his role in 2014’sInto the Woodswhere he played Rapunzel ’s Prince .
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THRbrings the sole report of this new live - action spinoff for Disney+ , reporting also thatAladdinproducers Dan Lin and Jonathan Elrichwill be serving as manufacturer on the as - yet untitled Prince Anders spinoff . If concentrate on on the clownish Prince Anders was n’t enough of an indication of the series ' expected tone , Jordan Dunn and Michael Kvamme are writing the script . Dunn and Kvamme have compose comedy together in the past tense , includingOperation Prince of FreedomforFox .
Magnussen is in reality creditworthy for the inception of this spinoff , asTHRreports " He came to the producers with an idea for a story and was take , along with the studio apartment and Rideback , in meeting with likely author . " This project will be quite different from other upcoming use Magnussen has . He ’s next appearingin the new James Bondmovie , No Time to Die , followed by a role in aprequel forTheSopranosalongside Corey Stoll .
As mentioned above , theAladdinlive action remake came out to some mixed response , catching some of the producers off guard duty . Still , it would be hard for Disney to brush off the dependable box office success of its late live action remake . Making a spinoff center on a new character might help to give newer fans more of what they want while not risk rebound from those who grow up with the classic Disney invigorate picture show and do n’t want to see their childhood favorites advert ( for better or worse ) .
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informant : THR
