‘Aladdin’ Live-Action Remake Gets a Sequel From Disney

After grossing over $1 billion worldwide final summer time, Disney’s remake of their animated movie “Aladdin” will get a theatrically launched sequel, a number of people with data of the undertaking confirmed to TheWrap.

The sequel will likely be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Ehrich of Rideback, who produced the live-action movie starring Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Will Smith because the highly effective Genie he frees from a magic lamp. The movie was launched on Memorial Day weekend final 12 months and grossed $355 million domestically and $1.05 billion worldwide, making it one among a report seven billion-dollar hits that Disney launched in 2019.

While it has not been decided whether or not remake director Guy Ritchie will return for the sequel, the script will likely be a wholly new story written by John Gatins and Andrea Berloff. Gatins, who wrote the 2012 Robert Zemeckis/Denzel Washington movie “Flight,” most just lately labored on the script for Lionsgate’s 2018 movie adaptation of “Power Rangers.” Berloff, who acquired an Oscar nomination as co-writer of the 2015 movie “Straight Outta Compton,” most just lately made her directorial debut with final summer time’s crime movie “The Kitchen,” which she additionally wrote.

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Disney’s plans to remake their traditional animated movies in live-action and CGI type have been very profitable because the collection started with the Tim Burton remake of “Alice in Wonderland” in 2010. Four of these remakes — “Alice,” “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” — have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, with a fifth almost becoming a member of them as Jon Favreau’s 2016 adaptation of “The Jungle Book” grossed $966 million. That movie additionally has a sequel in growth with Favreau set to return as director, although the timetable for that undertaking is up within the air as Favreau is at the moment engaged on season 2 of the Disney+ collection “The Mandalorian.”

Gatins is repped by UTA whereas Berloff is repped by CAA and Management 360. The sequel was first reported by Variety.