"Beauty and the Beast" is getting a Disney+ prequel musical series.
The series is an eight-episode that will star Luke Evans and Josh Gad, who will reprise their roles from the 2017 live-action blockbuster "Beauty and the Beast".
In addition, newcomer Briana Middleton will join the show as Tilly, Louie’s stepsister. The prequel series was first announced as being in development in March 2020.
The series is set years before the Beast and Belle’s romance and follows Gaston and LeFou as they set off with Tilly, after a surprising revelation from her past surfaces, sending the trio on a journey filled with romance, adventure, and comedy.
"Once Upon a Time" creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz will serve as showrunners alongside Gad, who will also serve alongside Kitsis, Horowitz, and EGOT-winner Alan Menken as exec produce, with the latter set to compose the soundtrack. Liesl Tommy will also exec produce and direct the pilot. Evans is credited as a producer. Gad, Kitsis, and Horowitz will also write scripts.
ABC Signature Studios is the studio on the Beauty and the Beast series, which hails from Disney’s Branded Television pision. Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack to the series.
Production will begin in spring 2022. A premiere date has not yet been decided.
No other stars from the movie, like Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, are currently attached, however, sources say there is a possibility that they could pop as guests.
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