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Official "Beauty & the Beast" Film Adaptation Thread

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #275
Posted: 3/13/15 at 1:21am

Hopefully she means that through humbleness and not that she is bad. :p

I expect she will be fine though, Lily James isn't a singer but she sings well in the Cinderella credits Disney have good vocal coaches and music producers to fix everything .

Updated On: 3/13/15 at 01:21 AM

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #276
Posted: 3/13/15 at 1:04pm

I'm hearing it will feature most of the Broadway score.

After hearing both lily James' 'A Dream is A wish' and Helena's 'Bibbidi' I think they should have made the film a musical and feature those songs.

Beauty and The Beast will be amazing. I hope it looks like the recent french film.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #277
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:27pm

Josh Gad.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/josh-gad-joining-disneys-live-781061

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #278
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:41pm

^ Perfect casting for Lefou! Emma Watson to star in Condon's

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #279
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:43pm

Josh Gad is a good choice for LeFou. I'm interested who they get to play Lumiere and Cogsworth.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #280
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:48pm

How about Jean Dujardin as Lumiere and Jim Broadbent as Cogsworth?

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #281
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:54pm

^I did think Jean Dujarin for Lumiere, Jim Broadbent would be good for the role or perhaps Hugh Bonneville?

Updated On: 3/13/15 at 02:54 PM

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #282
Posted: 3/13/15 at 2:58pm

^ I thought about Hugh Bonneville, too!

Interesting that Bonneville played the younger version of Broadbent's character in "Iris."

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #283
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:11pm

Has it been revealed how the objects are going to be portrayed in the film? Is it telling that only the 'human' (and beast) cast has been released?

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #284
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:18pm

Emma Thompson is Mrs. Potts.

Although I'm curious how they'll do it, too.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #285
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:37pm

^Thompson hasn't been confirmed yet, has she?

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #286
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:37pm

Lots of CGI...

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #287
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:44pm

Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, (maybe) Emma Thompson? Such an incredible cast so far and I'm sure more exciting casting announcements will round out an already amazing cast.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #288
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:47pm

Whoops!

I'm me. I do me...and I chill.

Updated On: 3/13/15 at 03:47 PM

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #289
Posted: 3/13/15 at 3:49pm

CALLED JOSH GAD FROM THE VERY START. YES YES YES YES YES YES

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #290
Posted: 3/13/15 at 10:51pm

I wonder if they will use motion capture for the CGI characters...

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #291
Posted: 3/14/15 at 1:22am

You know I've been on the outside looking in on this. People were announced for it, oh that's nice. I had no idea this was going to be an adaptation of the musical, I am god damn moons over my hammy now!

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #292
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:39pm

Looks like Emma Thompson will be Mrs. Potts and Kevin Kline will be Maurice.

I have to admit I didn't peg Kline as the Maurice type. Maurice doesn't do any singing or dancing, does he? I'd think Kline would be a much better Lumiere...

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #293
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:40pm

Emma Thompson is OFFICIALLY Mrs. Potts and Kevin Kline is Maurice!

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #294
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:42pm

I thought Kline would play Lumiere, surprised he is playing Maurice instead. Maybe there's still hope for Jean Dujardin as Lumiere? He'd be terrific. Love the idea of Emma Thompson as Mrs. Pott, though sad we won't get to see her in person (guessing there'll be lots of CGI/motion capture involved), can you imagine what a genius Belle she'd have been years ago?

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #295
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:42pm

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Just want to note that the press release Disney sent out mentions Menken will score the film, it will feature the songs from the original film, and include "new songs written by Menken and Sir Tim Rice" which is a fancy way of saying the Broadway score...

Hopefully people can stop claiming they're hiding the fact that it's a musical.

Updated On: 3/16/15 at 02:42 PM

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #296
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:45pm

I hope it's true to the Broadway version and doesn't try to adhere more to the animated version.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #297
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:47pm

Spring releases seem to be working for Disney when it comes to these live-adaptions.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #298
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:48pm

My ears are f**king ready for Emma Thompson's rendition of Beauty and the Beast!

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #299
Posted: 3/16/15 at 2:49pm

It seems like more of a Christmas day release to me. There's going to be something weird about seeing a big budget musical in March.

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Emma Watson to star in Condon's #300
Posted: 3/16/15 at 3:00pm

I think March works for these live-action retellings by Disney. I would think Christmas too, but it wasn't always like that. Gigi came out in May, Mary Poppins came out in August, and The Sound of Music came out in March, and those movies were all successful.

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