Disney is remaking a lot of its classic animated films into brand-new live-action extravaganzas. So it should come as no surprise that their first ever animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is next in line for such treatment.
Variety reports that a new musical version of the 1937 classic is in development with the studio currently talking to The Girl on the Train writer Erin Cressida Wilson to write the screenplay. Songwriters Justin Paul and Benj Pasek (La La Land) are also in talks to develop some new songs for the film.
No director is attached just yet, but producer Mark Platt, the man behind Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, is on board to produce the project.
Recently, the studio has had enormous success with its remakes of The Jungle Book, Cinderella and Maleficent and will release Beauty and the Beast early next year. They have also announced work on Aladdin (with Guy Ritchie set to direct), The Little Mermaid, Dumbo (with Tim Burton attached) and The Lion King, which will see Jungle Book director Jon Favreau return behind the camera.
