Following the financial successes Alice in Wonderland ($1 billion), Snow White and the Huntsman ($395 million), Maleficent ($760 million), Cinderella ($405 million+), Oz the Great and Powerful ($495 million) and Into the Woods ($205 million) there’s now talks of Pinocchio and Dumbo entering the production mill. In the more immediate future, a live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is on the way and has just cast Ian McKellen (X-Men, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) as the living clock Cogsworth.
This is his third collaboration with Oscar winning writer/director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) who directs the cast of Emma Watson (Harry Potter, Noah), Dan Stevens (The Guest, Downton Abbey), Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Fast & Furious 6), Josh Gad (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer), Audra McDonald (Private Practice), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda, Cry Freedom) and Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks, Love Actually, The Remains of the Day).
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spin off of the incredibly successful Harry Potter films, has been in development for ages but is only now at the casting stage. Eddie Redmayne, the recently Oscar winning star of The Theory of Everything, is the current favourite for the role of Newt Scamander, a wizard who travels the world in search of its most fearsome creatures. Matt Smith (Doctor Who, Terminator: Genisys) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class, Warm Bodies) previously mentioned in connection with the film but it’d appear that Redmayne is the closest to taking the role for director David Yates (The Girl in the Cafe, Harry Potter).
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – November 18th 2016
Beauty and the Beast – 2017
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