The Greatest Showman‘s Director Just Signed on for Disney’s Live-Action Tangled

Tangled has conscionable been officially added to the database of live-action Disney Princess adaptations, pursuing the upcoming Snow White and past year’s The Little Mermaid. While there’s nary merchandise day rather yet, the Hollywood Reporter announced that Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) has been tapped to helm the movie.

The study confirmed that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the writer down Sony’s upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel reboot, has penned the latest draught of the publication for Disney’s live-action Tangled, an adaptation of its 2010 animated hit.

No casting for Gracey’s Tangled has been announced yet, though rumors swirled earlier this twelvemonth that Mean Girls: The Musical standout Avantika was successful the moving to pb the movie arsenic Rapunzel. The speech inspired immoderate precise racist chatter against the Indian American actress—despite the information that her mentation of Karen Shetty was a instrumentality favourite successful the philharmonic adaptation of the Lindsay Lohan 2004 teen movie (take a look astatine her perfomance of “Sexy” below). Flynn Rider has besides not yet been cast, but we’re gladsome that Zachary Levi’s Disney Prince days are numbered.

Stay tuned present astatine io9 for more Tangled updates.

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