The wait is over for fans who have been curious as to what the new live-action Beauty and the Beast movie would look like.
Disney has released the official trailer for its live-action adaptation, starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast.
There are other supporting characters that appear in the new official trailer including Ewan McGregor’s Lumière, Emma Thompson’s Mrs. Potts and Ian McKellan’s Cogsworth.
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When the first teaser trailer was released in the spring, it was viewed a record 91.8 million times in its first 24 hours — beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens (88 million views), Captain America: Civil War (61 million views) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (55 million views). The teaser trailer focused on the Beast’s castle and offered only a glimpse of Belle.
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Beauty and the Beast was the third highest-grossing film of 1991 (and the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars).
“I definitely had issues with the script at the beginning,” recalled Watson. “We tried to tweak things to make Belle more proactive and a bit more in charge of her own destiny. In the animated movie, it’s her father who is the inventor, and we actually co-opted that for Belle. We created a backstory for her, which was that she had invented a kind of washing machine, so that instead of doing laundry, she could sit and use that time to read. So, yeah, we made Belle an inventor.”
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Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken, who has penned songs for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid, has written three new ballads for the live-action retelling. The new film will feature unused lyrics from the original 1991 version that were penned by the late Howard Ashman.
Beauty and the Beast is in theatres March 17, 2017.
You can watch the official trailer for the live-adaptation of Beauty and the Beast above.
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