ABC to air live-action/animated Beauty And The Beast special in December
The special, executive produced by Jon M. Chu, will feature new performances that add to the story
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of when Beauty And The Beast became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and while that may seem like a weirdly specific anniversary to celebrate (tell us you missed the actual anniversary without telling us you missed the actual anniversary), but that’s apparently what ABC is going with as the peg for its new Beauty And The Beast TV special.
The Hollywood Reporter says the special will be a combination of animation and live-action, which unfortunately probably means that nobody will be dressing up like a teacup and dancing around. What it will have is “never-before-seen musical performances” and “new sets and costumes inspired by the classic story,” with the musical performances all “[paying] homage to the original animated favorite while also adding to its iconic story.” (Whatever that means.)
The special will be executive produced by Jon M. Chu (of the upcoming Wicked dyad) and directed by Hamish Hamilton, a veteran of this kind of live television event (The Little Mermaid Live!, this year’s Emmy Awards Grammy Awards, and the last Super Bowl Halftime Show). The special will on December 15 on ABC, and it will be available on Disney+ a day later. And, again: This is the 30th anniversary of when Beauty And The Beast was nominated for Best Picture, not the 30th anniversary of when Beauty And The Beast came out. That would’ve been last year, which was when Disney announced a Beauty And The Beast prequel show about Gaston with brand new music from Alan Menken… though that project has since been delayed and THR says it’s not happening at all anymore.
But hey, some kind of Beauty And The Beast celebration! A tale as old as time! New performances that pay homage to the original while also adding to its iconic story!
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That is my new favorite header image.
“Disney presents:
Beauty and the Furry”
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!!!!
Damn! Of ALL the beautiful stills from Beauty and the Beast On Ice, you guys had to pick that one. I think I’m going to have nightmares from that header – that chick looks scared as fuuuck! One would think this was a horror show instead: The Weinstein Saga On Ice
AAAARGH!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT??? I was just about getting the first image out of my mind and you had to add that pixellated horror!!! I need a memory wipe! (Kudos! Take ya damn star!)
I thought that was Sweetums from The Muppets
That’s stunt casting I can get behind.
Everyone knows the Cocteau movie is better anyway.
I’ve seen it. Its wildly creative but I feel the 1991 cutting some parts of the fairytale was for the best.
Oh come on. I feel after having watched the original film, the shitty remake, the shitty sequels, and the decent Broadway show I can strongly conclude that it doesn’t need any story alterations.
The best thing about the Broadway show was the addition of the solos “Home” and “If I Can’t Love Her” for Belle and the Beast, respectively, so of course they were cut from the shitty live action remake and replaced with new solos that were also shitty.
Im partial to Human Again mostly because its a reworked Howard Ashmen song that was cut. Also yes that was mind boggling as the new songs in the remake were uniformly bad.
I live for tv specials like this, you never know what you’ll get.