Watch The ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Trailer, And Decide If It’s Magical Or A Live-Action Nightmare
It could go either way, really.
Emma Watson is famous for talking about gender equality at the United Nations, and playing a book-smart, witty heroine called Hermione Granger. Now she will play a book-smart, witty heroine named Belle in a live-action version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
It’ll be interesting to see how the live-action retelling will go because if it hits the wrong notes, this tale of the transformative power of love becomes a true horror story of curses, possessed household objects and bestiality.
Here’s the trailer!
In this trailer we mostly see a lot of gothic interiors, but you may also recognise the voices of Ian McKellan as Cosgrove the clock and, because they couldn’t seem to find an actual French person, Ewan McGregor plays Lumière the candlestick. They’re not in the trailer, but Emma Thompson will also play Mrs. Potts (which is almost typecasting) and Stanley Tucci will play the piano, Cadenza. Handsome Cousin Matthew from Downton Abbey (Dan Stevens) will play the Beast.
Will Beauty and the Beast achieve the financial and critical acclaim of Disney’s recent live-action feat The Jungle Book? Who knows! I mean, a bear-like creature and a young maiden falling in love: it’s a tale as old as time.
(Sorry.)
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Beauty and the Beast is out in the U.S on March 17 2017.