Disney Plus drops Beauty And The Beast prequel show… for now
The show, starring Luke Evans and Josh Gad as Gaston and LeFou, might come back later
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In a world where Disney’s various operations can seem like the work of an emotionless machine that must always be moving forward and can never be stopped, it’s surprising to see the studio take a step back and acknowledge that something isn’t working. Case in point: Deadline is reporting that Disney+ has (supposedly temporarily) canceled its plans for a prequel series based on the live-action Beauty And The Beast movie, with Deadline’s “sources” saying the scrips were “not coming together in the direction expected” and that the writing of original music was “running behind schedule.”
Filming had already been pushed from spring to summer because of these issues, and Deadline says they couldn’t even push it back further “because of talent availability and weather concerns.” That makes it seem kind of like it just won’t happen, but Disney is a powerful company, so it can probably make some actors shift their schedules around and force the atmosphere to shift some weather around. Deadline maintains that Disney still wants to do it, but “it is unclear whether the current creative auspices will remain involved.”
Speaking of the creative auspices, the show would’ve featured Luke Evans and Josh Gad reprising their roles from the Emma Watson movie as Gaston and LeFou, alongside Briana Middleton, Fra Fee, and Jelani Alladin. The show was written by Gad and Once Upon A Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (getting called up to the big leagues of Real Disney and not Meta-Offshoot Disney).
As for the songs, EGOT-holding Beauty And The Beast composer Alan Menken was supposed to be working on those, so the fact that they weren’t coming together or were taking too long does seem like a big issue for this. A show that almost has new Alan Menken songs is not as good as a show with finished Alan Menken songs. That’s Disney 101.
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I’m always glad when I hear that one of these “Why is this a thing?” projects is cancelled.
It’s because they didn’t want to show more gayness, isn’t it?
A show based on a bad movie wasn’t coming together? You don’t say?
What would even happen in this show…because if they make Gaston cool…they’re glorifying a murderer. How ya gonna do it? It’s like the writers are kids who rooted for obvious villains unironically.
Who the hell even remembers this remake 5 years after its release? I only do because I love the original. We are better off.
I bet we’re like 5 years away from another remake. It’ll just be chewing over the same nostalgia over and over …
I hadn’t seen any of the *hurk* brand deposit movies before the Beauty remake. My wife convinced me to see it.It was the first and last time.
You are damn lucky, although then again its the remake that annoyed me the most.
An extremely overasked question of a lot of projects is ‘Who was asking for this?’ A more pertinent question is ‘Who would actually want to see this?’And I’m not sure there’s enough of an audience for this show. I’m pulling this out of my ass though, because who knows, maybe a bunch of Beast-heads would be all over it.
Having a Josh Gad project put on indefinite hold is something I’d put in the “win” column. Now can we find a way to put an indefinite hold on James Corden?