Guy Ritchie will direct the live-action version of Aladdin for Disney, according to this report over at The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes just days after it was announced that Jon Favreau would redo The Lion King in live-action form for the studio.
Ritchie’s version, from a script by John August, will apparently retain a lot of the famous songs from the classic animated movie, which include the likes of ‘Arabian Nights’, ‘A Whole New World’ and ‘Friend Like Me’.
The 1998 classic featured the voice of the legendary Robin Williams, a truly unique performance that will be hard to top.
The trade reports that the plan is to make it non-linear, a move right out of the Ritchie playbook’, a bit like Ritchie’s previous efforts Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
Aladdin joins a long list of animated movies getting the remake treatment at Disney – the next one to hit cinemas will be Beauty and the Beast in 2017.
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