Disney is moving forward with that Beauty And The Beast prequel show about Gaston
No one spins-off like Gaston, does TV prequels like Gaston
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Disney+ can’t really be all that desperate for content, right? It could just take a month off, not add anything new to the platform, and coast on the money from people who really like watching the old vault content or who haven’t caught up on the Marvel and Star Wars shows, right? Very few people would notice and even fewer would object in any way, and it would mean the people running Disney+ would get a few weeks off from Mickey Mouse screaming at them to chisel more content from the content mines. “Ah ha ha! More nature documentaries! More shows about Clone Troopers! I’m friends with a dog and also I have a pet dog! Ah ha ha!”
But alas, Disney+ cannot stop, it must have more content, and soon that content will include an untitled Beauty And The Beast prequel about Gaston and LeFou—specifically the live-action movie versions of Gaston and LeFou, played by Luke Evans and Josh Gad, who will be reprising their roles for the show. We first heard that this was in the works last year, and today Disney announced that it has given the project a green light and will be moving forward with an eight-episode order for it. That seems like a lot of episodes, maybe too many episodes, but at least Alan Menken is coming back to the Beauty And The Beast franchise to write some new music for Gaston and LeFou. That seems okay.
Evans and Gad won’t be alone on this adventure, though: They’ll be joined by Tilly, LeFou’s stepsister, who will be played here by Briana Middleton. The trio will then go on an “unexpected journey” (heads-up, Warner Bros. lawyers) that is “filled with romance, comedy, and adventure.” Hopefully it will also be filled with “trying to force someone to love you” and “trying to jealously murder a woman’s new boyfriend just because he’s big and hairy,” since that’s the stuff people know Gaston likes from the original movie.
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Well, I did not like the 2017 remake at all. But that High School Musical show was surprisingly not terrible, so it’s probably up in the air how good this could be.
The amount of loathing I have for that 2017 remake is rather high. So no I can’t forsee myself watching this. I’ll just watch the original perfectly paced and perfectly cast 1991 film. The film that doesn’t shit on the legacy of the great Howard Ashmen thank you.
This is because of Cruella, isn’t it?
Fukken Josh Gad.
I hope his deal with Mephisto to be famous comes full circle soon.
And Jim Corden.
“And this time we’ll get the gay thing with Lefou right! This time for sure! No really, we will, we promise!”
Well I’m sure Luke Evans could use the work.
I loved Cruella, I think people clutching their pearls that she skins dogs(which is omitted) somehow must have issues with Roald Dahl’s macabre elements in his storytelling too. This could be good if they tackled some of the toxic masculinity qualities of Gaston, because I haven’t seen a teen show do that yet.
I was thinking it could be like a musical, live-action Johnny Bravo. Or a spin-off about the exploits of Zapp Brannigan.
I’m only interested in a dark, perverse series focused on the guy running the Asylum D’Loons.
Uh. What?
I haven’t seen the remake, so I don’t know how much this Gaston resembles the animated version, but I could be down for a show about Gaston vainly going about the village, unaware everyone thinks he’s an idiot — kind of like a musical version of Johnny Bravo.
Gaston? He is no Malificent or Cruella. I have zero interest in his backstory, which is that he’s a jerk.
If this flick doesn’t show Evans eating 60 eggs every morning, then what’s even the point of this?
If I have to see more Beauty & The Beast content, I think I would rather have seen a Downton Abbey-style show, before the curse, that introduced you to the characters who worked in the castle who eventually get turned into clocks, dishes, etc.