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The movie “Tangled” is the latest Disney movie to get a live-action treatment.
The studio is developing a reimagining of the 2010 animated film, a musical take on Brothers Grimm story on Rapunzel, a magically long-haired princess. The “Greatest Showman” director Michael Gracey is in talks to direct the film from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, whose credits include Netflix’s campy dark comedy “Do Revenge”, “Thor: Love and Thunder” and the upcoming “I Know What You Did Last Summer” reboot. Casting has yet to be announced, so stay tuned for more details.
“Tangled” is a story about Rapunzel, a princess voiced by Mandy Moore who is rescued by an outlaw named Flynn Rider. The film was well-reviewed fourteen years ago around Thanksgiving and generated $592 million at the global box office, which would have been a better result since the movie had not reportedly carried a $260 million budget in production. The movie “Tangled” also boast an Oscar nominated song “When Will My Life Begin,” which inspired such spin offs as the 2012 short film “Tangled Ever After” and 2017 TV series “Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure.”
Gracey made his debut as a filmmaker with the film “The Greatest Showman” in 2017, a PT Barnum biographical musical drama starring Hugh Jackman. That film initially struggled at the box office before achieving sleeper-hit status with more than $450 million globally. Gracey’s latest project is “Better Man,” a semi-autobiographical movie on the life of the British musician Robbie Williams, who is portrayed by a chimpanzee.
Disney has given numerous animated films the live-action treatment — including the “Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo,” and the “Little Mermaid” — varying degrees of commercial success.
