Disney May Have Found an Incredibly Obvious Choice for Its Live-Action Prince Charming

Deadline reports Chris Hemsworth is successful talks to prima successful Prince Charming, a caller task astatine Disney from Paddington and Wonka manager Paul King.

Prince Charming is based connected a publication co-written by King with Simon Farnaby and Jon Croker; the nonstop quality and details of the communicative are presently nether wraps, but unless it reveals itself to beryllium a elemental rom-com utilizing the sanction similar The Perfect Man oregon The Idea of You, the communicative apt concerns immoderate saltation of the banal quality seen successful Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and different Disney fairy tales. As the outlet notes, “insiders bash adhd that the movie volition not specifically beryllium linked to Cinderella,” and truthful volition apt not beryllium a retelling of the Disney movie from the position of its royal shoe-obsessed emotion interest.  

Entertainment insider Jeff Sneider broke quality of the task and Hemsworth’s engagement successful his newsletter past week, truthful the Deadline study is further confirmation that this movie is existent and moving forward. Which begs the question: if it’s not specifically astir Cinderella’s himbo, what’s it about? And wherefore is Disney interested?

Perhaps Prince Charming truly will beryllium immoderate benignant of effort connected the banal character, successful a akin vein to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, with Hemsworth arsenic immoderate benignant of bumbling incarnation of the trope—similar to Ryan Gosling’s evergreen portrayal of Ken. Perhaps it’ll beryllium a benignant of modern retelling of The Stepford Husbands, the 1996 made-for-TV sequel to The Stepford Wives with Mr. Hemsworth lasting successful for Michael Ontkean. How are perfect storybook men made, and for what purpose? Will Hemsworth’s Charming go self-aware and pb a gyration of his colleagues arsenic they question wherefore they’re cursed to play 2nd fiddle to their princess counterparts? We’ll find retired soon enough.

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