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  • First Trailer for Live-Action ‘Lady and the Tramp’ Teases Adventure (And Spaghetti, Of Course)

    First Trailer for Live-Action ‘Lady and the Tramp’ Teases Adventure (And Spaghetti, Of Course)

    Disney+

    The first trailer for the live-action “Lady and the Tramp” showcases the scenes we expect from the animated original, including a romantic spaghetti dinner and puppy Lady being presented as a gift on Christmas morning.

    The era also looks the same as the 1955 film, which was set in 1909. The dogs are real, but talk with some assistance from computer animators.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ZDDU34gYw

    We also briefly see the live-action versions of the duo’s familiar friends: Trusty the Bloodhound (voiced by Sam Elliott) and Jock the Scottie (Ashley Jensen, a gender-swap from the original).

    But we also see some scenes that weren’t in the original, including Lady (voiced by Tessa Thompson) and Tramp (Justin Theroux) taking a trip on a steam boat.

    The movie will be available to subscribers when Disney+ debuts on November 12.

    Among the voice cast are Benedict Wong as Bull the Bulldog and Janelle Monáe as Peg, a Pekingese puppy. Thomas Mann costars as human Jim Dear, Kiersey Clemons as his wife Darling, and Yvette Nicole Brown as (we presume) her dog-hating aunt.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

    [Via IndieWire]

  • Marvel Confirms Three New Disney+ Series, Including ‘She-Hulk’ and ‘Moon Knight’

    Marvel Confirms Three New Disney+ Series, Including ‘She-Hulk’ and ‘Moon Knight’

    Marvel/Disney+

    As if the slew of new Marvel shows coming to Disney+ weren’t already massive, the studio just confirmed three new series: “Ms. Marvel” (news of which leaked before the D23 panel), as well as  “She-Hulk” and “Moon Knight.”

    No cast has been announced yet for these upcoming shows:

    “She-Hulk” will follow Bruce Banner’s cousin, attorney Jennifer Walters, who gets a radioactive blood transfusion. She first appeared in 1980’s The Savage She-Hulk No. 1, and was the last major Marvel character co-created by Stan Lee.

    “Moon Knight” is the vigilante alter ego of mercenary Marc Spector, who also has two other alter egos: millionaire Steven Grant and cab driver Jake Lockley. They may all be coming from Egyptian deity Konshu … or Konshu might also be a figment of Spector’s imagination. Got that?

    “Ms. Marvel”: This version of Captain Marvel is a teenager named Kamela Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim character to lead her own comics title. She’s a Pakistani-American who has the ability to stretch and change her shape. The show is in development with British writer Bisha K. Ali to write and act as showrunner.

    We’re also getting alternate reality animated series “What If…?” in 2021. “Westworld” star Jeffrey Wright will voice the all-seeing Watcher, who will be “your guide through these vast new realities.”

    Kevin Feige showed scenes of alternate MCU plots, including  Zombie Captain America and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) taking up Captain America’s mantle and becoming Captain Carter.

    All these series will be intertwined with Marvel’s theatrical films, meaning they expect you to watch “Falcon & Winter Soldier,” “WandaVision,” “Loki,” “What If…?”,” Hawkeye” and all the MCU movies.

    Disney+ launches November 12 in the U.S.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

    [Via THR]

  • Kat Dennings and Randall Park’s MCU Characters Join Disney+’s ‘WandaVision’

    Kat Dennings and Randall Park’s MCU Characters Join Disney+’s ‘WandaVision’

    Marvel/Disney

    “WandaVision,” the Disney+ series about (who else?) MCU characters Wanda and Vision, just revealed more of its cast, all of whom have a way with one-liners.

    Joining Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) are wisecracking Darcy (Kat Dennings) from the “Thor” movies and perpetually flustered FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) from “Ant-Man and The Wasp.”

    Joining the MCU for the first time is Emmy-nominated star Kathryn Hahn of ‘Transparent,” “Bad Moms” and “Private Life” fame.

    “WandaVision” will show “what an ideal life with vision looks like.”  It’s being billed as “half sitcom, half epic MCU adventure.”

    So, superheroes + nosy, chatty neighbors?

    Marvel previously announced that “WandaVision” will be “unlike anything we’ve done before.” Olsen added, “It’s gonna get weird.”

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

  • Hilary Duff Returning As Lizzie McGuire for Disney+

    Hilary Duff Returning As Lizzie McGuire for Disney+

    Disney Channel

    Lizzie McGuire is coming back. Hilary Duff has agreed to reprise her role as the Disney Channel character for Disney+.

    In the updated version of the sitcom, Lizzie is a 30-year-old millennial navigating life in New York City. Like the original series, it will include an animated version of a young Lizzie who comments on what the now-grown-up Lizzie  is really thinking.

    Duff currently stars on TV Land comedy “Younger,” and, thanks to a special deal, will continue to star on both shows.

    “Lizzie McGuire,” which debuted in January 2001 and ran for four seasons, was one of Disney Channel’s highest-rated series.  It also spawned 2003’s “The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” which grossed $55 million at the global box office.

    Disney wanted to do a second movie and a new series with Lizzie in high school, but negotiations between Duff and Disney fell through.

    The actress, who’s now 31, has mentioned in recent interviews that she would be open to a Lizzie McGuire reboot or reunion.

    It’s the second Disney Channel live-action franchise to get a new series on Disney+ after “High School Musical.” However, the new version of “HSM” has an all-new cast.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

    [Via Deadline]

  • New ‘Phineas and Ferb’ Movie Will Debut on Disney+ in 2020

    Disney Channel

    “Phineas and Ferb” will return in 2020 with a new movie on Disney+ in which the stepbrothers “rescue” their sister Candace, “who has been abducted by aliens and has found utopia in a far-off planet, free of pesky little brothers.”

    “Phineas and Ferb” creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh are back as executive producers on the movie, which is already in production.

    Most of the original cast will reprise their roles, including Ashley Tisdale as Candace and Vincent Martella as Phineas. However, David Errigo Jr. is replacing Thomas Brodie-Sangster as the voice of  Ferb.

    The logo and details of the plot were revealed today at D23.

    Disney Plus

    The Disney Channel series ran from 2007 to 2015. There were also seven one-hour specials and  the 2011 movie “Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension.”

    All episodes of “Phineas and Ferb” are currently available via the DisneyNow app and will be on  Disney+ when the streaming service launches on November 12.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

    [Via Variety]

  • ‘Ms. Marvel’ Series in the Works at Disney+: Report

    ‘Ms. Marvel’ Series in the Works at Disney+: Report

    Marvel Comics

    Another female superhero is coming to the Marvel screen universe.

    Disney+ is developing a “Ms. Marvel” series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The streaming service has hired British writer Bisha K. Ali (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”) to write and act as showrunner.

    An announcement about the series may occur during today’s D23 Expo.

    The most recent version of the hero, which is the one the show will use, is the teenager Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim character to be lead her own comics title.

    A Pakistani American living with her religious family in New Jersey, Khan has the ability to stretch and change her shape.

    It’s unclear how the “Ms. Marvel” show would fit into the rest of the Marvel cinematic and television universe.

    It’s one of a number of Marvel projects in the works at Disney+. Others include “Avengers” spinoffs “Falcon and Winter Soldier,” “WandaVision,” “Hawkeye,” and “Loki.”

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

  • Ming-Na Wen Joins Cast of ‘The Mandalorian,’ Achieves Disney Trifecta

    Ming-Na Wen Joins Cast of ‘The Mandalorian,’ Achieves Disney Trifecta

    ABC

    Actress Ming-Na Wen is joining the cast of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian.”

    This gives her a rare “Disney trifecta,” as she stars in ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and previously voiced the title character in “Mulan.”

    Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the news Friday during the annual fan gathering D23 Expo.

    Wen was one of the Disney Legends recipients, which this year also honored Wing Chao, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, James Earl Jones, Bette Midler, Kenny Ortega, Barnette Ricci, Robin Roberts, Diane Sawyer and Hans Zimmer.

    “Please just keep acquiring all these different franchises,” Wen said during her speech, “because I just keep getting employed by them. I have hit every bucket list thanks to Disney.”

    “The Mandalorian,” which is written and produced by Favreau, is set after the fall of the Empire in “Return of the Jedi” and before the emergence of the First Order. The series follows the travails of a lone gunfighter (Pedro Pascal) in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.

    Episodes will be directed by Dave Filoni, Bryce Dallas Howard, Deborah Chow, Rick Famuyiwa, and Taika Waititi.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

  • Disney+ Unveils Posters for ‘The Mandalorian,’ Lady and the Tramp,’ More

    Disney+ Unveils Posters for ‘The Mandalorian,’ Lady and the Tramp,’ More

    Disney

    Ahead of today’s D23 Expo, Disney+ has unveiled five posters for originals series on the upcoming streaming service.

    The posters tease the November 12 premieres of the “Star Wars” bounty hunter drama “The Mandalorian”; the live-action “Lady and the Tramp” remake; the meta mockumentary “High School Musical: The Musical”; the holiday comedy “Noelle”; and the NatGeo documentary “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.”

    “The Mandalorian”

    The series starring Pedro Pascal as a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. The poster also depicts his ship, the Razorcrest.

    “Lady and the Tramp”

    The updated, live-action version of the classic canine film features the voices of Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux. The poster teases the iconic spaghetti dinner scene.

    “High School Musical: The Musical”

    A group of high school students stage a performance of “High School Musical” for their winter theater production. Hijinks ensue.

    “Noelle”

    The holiday comedy was initially eyed for a theatrical release but then saved for Disney+. Anna Kendrick plays Santa Claus’ daughter, who is forced to take over the family business when her father retires and her brother (Bill Hader) is reluctant to take over.

    “The World According to Jeff Goldblum”

    The actor explores deceptively familiar objects and unravels a world full of astonishing connections, fascinating science and amazing people.

    For more coverage from the D23 Expo 2019, click here!

  • Disney+ Cancels ‘Book of Enchantment’ Series About Villains

    Disney+ Cancels ‘Book of Enchantment’ Series About Villains

    Disney+

    Disney+ has already canceled a series before the streaming service has even debuted.

    Disney+ has pulled the plug on “Book of Enchantment,” the high-profile series focused on popular villains like the Beast, Ursula, the Wicked Queen, and the witch from Snow White.

    Deadline reports the decision was “largely creative, related to show’s tone and direction” and that scripts were going in a “darker direction” than Disney wanted.

    The project was an adaptation of a popular book series by Serena Valentino. Michael Seitzman (“Quantico,” “Code Black”) wrote the pilot script and was to have served as showrunner.

    While “Book of Enchantment” did not receive a formal greenlight, it’s been in the works for over a year and a writers’ room had been operating for 13 weeks. Producers had scouted locations, staff had been hired, and a May 2020 start date had been on the table.

    This isn’t the first instance of a Disney+ project getting reconsidered. The “High Fidelity” series reboot starring Zoe Kravitz was moved to Hulu as it became more adult-oriented in tone and content.

  • Ewan McGregor Returning to ‘Star Wars’ for Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Series

    Ewan McGregor Returning to ‘Star Wars’ for Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Series

    Lucasfilm

    Ewan McGregor is picking up a lightsaber as Obi-Wan Kenobi once more.

    The star, who played the younger version of the Jedi knight in the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, is in talks to reprise the role in a Disney+ series. Details about the project are being kept under wrap, but there may be an official announcement at D23 next weekend.

    This is the third “Star Wars” series in development at Disney’s forthcoming streaming service, which launches later this year. The others are the bounty hunter drama “The Mandalorian” with Pedro Pascal and an untitled show centered on “Rogue One’s” Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and K-2SO (Alan Tudyk).

    Several years ago, reports indicated that Lucasfilm was developing an Obi-Wan spinoff film, in the vein of “Rogue One” and “Solo.” But the latter’s disappointment reception and box office results led the studio to put a halt to spinoffs.

    At the time, there was also talk of a Boba Fett/bounty hunter movie. But now it seems, both projects are being translated into a television series.

    Obi-Wan Kenobi is a major figure in the “Star Wars” universe. In the original film, he was played by Alec Guinness and was a recluse hiding on Tattooine. Then, he was found by Princess Leia (“Help me, Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope”) and came out of retirement to mentor Luke Skywalker.

    In the prequels — “The Phantom Menace” (1999), “Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Revenge of the Sith” (2005) — McGregor took over the role as a younger version of the Jedi, who trained Anakin Skywalker. McGregor also made a voice cameo in 2015’s “The Force Awakens.”