Emma Watson to star in Guillermo del Toro's 'Beauty and the Beast'
As much as we all love Guillermo del Toro, somebody needs to remind him that he can鈥檛 be involved with EVERY upcoming Hollywood movie.
The latest project set to utilize the creative talents of the Pan鈥檚 Labyrinth filmmaker is a new version of , as is being co-conceived by Denise Di Novi, the producer of early Tim Burton titles like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Ed Wood. Suffice it to say, she and del Toro are undoubtedly planning a darker spin on the famous fairy tale.
According to , Emma Watson is set to headline the film, which would be her first post- starring role in a fantasy genre piece. She will next appear in the historical drama My Week with Marilyn later this year, and is also onboard for the coming-of-age novel adaptation, .
Beauty and the Beast is just the latest project featuring del Toro in some sort of 鈥渃reative consultant鈥� or producer role 鈥� it joins two vastly different titles due to hit theaters later this year ( and ), as well as in-development projects like Rise of the Guardians and the Jim Henson Company鈥檚 retelling of . Additionally del Toro will actually hop in the director鈥檚 seat again for the upcoming .
While the original Beauty and the Beast story doesn鈥檛 lend itself to quite as morbid or twisted a fairy tale 鈥渞e-telling鈥� as Carlo Collodi鈥檚 Pinocchio novel 鈥� especially in regards to each of these titles鈥� respective famous Disney animated counterpart 鈥� it鈥檚 still significantly less cheerful than your average children鈥檚 story. In the hands of del Toro, of course, it should be even darker (not to mention, potentially cool).
Nowadays, the description 鈥渇airy tale re-imagining that stars (either, a popular or rising) young actress鈥� is starting to become a bit tired. Earlier this year saw the arrival of Amanda Seyfried in ; next year we鈥檙e getting two movies with Lilly Collins and Kirsten Stewart; and now Watson鈥檚 set for Beauty & the Beast. That鈥檚 not to mention Shana Feste鈥檚 -inspired project (titled鈥� Mermaid), which will likely aim to snag an up-and-coming starlet as the titular character as well.
It鈥檚 the talent working behind the scenes that makes each of these films sound all the more (or less) appealing. Case in point: Tarsem Singh calling the shots on Relativity鈥檚 Snow White project and del Toro offering input on Beauty and the Beast makes these fairy tale reworking sounds more enticing than, say, when helmer Catherine Hardwicke was announced as director of Red Riding Hood.
Fans of Watson probably won鈥檛 mind seeing her play the prettier character in the new Beauty and the Beast either. Here鈥檚 to hoping the actress鈥� career continues to go well, now that her days of playing the brilliant are behind her.
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