If Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a tale as old as time, can there be a prequel? Well, it looks like Disney would argue there can be. A live-action prequel series starring Luke Evans and Josh Gad is reportedly in the works for Disney+, according to Variety.
- Evans and Gad would reprise their roles from the 2017 film as Gaston and LeFou respectively.
- The currently-untitled project is still in early stages of development but Variety reports it would be a musical and Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz would co-write and serve as showrunners.
- Gad would also join Horowitz and Kitsis as a co-writer with the three of them also executive producing.
- The series will be produced by ABC Signature Studios.
- Gad, Horowitz and Kitsis also worked together recently on an original Muppets series that was planned for Disney+ before being cancelled late last year.
- Gad is obviously no stranger to Disney, voicing the lovable snowman Olaf in the Frozen films in addition to his role as LeFou.
- Horowitz and Kitsis are also familiar with Disney, having created the hist ABC series Once Upon a Time.
- Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast was released in March 2017 and grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide at the box office.
- None of the film’s other stars are currently attached to the new Disney+ project.
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