Variety is reporting that Twilight director Bill Condon to direct a live-action version of Beauty & the Beast for Disney. Condon directed the musical Dreamgirls and wrote the script for Chicago so he has a musical background, but it is unknown if the film will be a musical.
The script is being written by Evan Spiliotopoulos, who wrote Pooh’s Heffalump Movie and The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning.