‘Beauty And The Beast’ Sneak Peek: Emma Watson And Dan Stevens Share A Moment
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the animatedBeauty and the Beast, and Disney’s taking this opportunity to remind you they’ve also got a live-actionBeauty and the Beastcoming our way next year. The studio has just released a sneak peek at the new film, featuring starsEmma WatsonandDan Stevensand directorBill Condon. Check it out below.
Here’s theBeauty and the Beastsneak peek, which is included in the bonus features for the animatedBeauty and the Beast’s upcoming home video release.
There isn’t a ton of new stuff to see in theBeauty and the Beastsneak peek. The shots of Beast’s castle are pretty, but we’ve seen most of them beforein the teaser, and that image of Lumière and Cogsworth first made the roundslast week. There is, however, some new stuff to listen to. We get to hear Belle and the Beast talk to each other for the first time thanks to a video from a table read. Belle asks Beast what he’s reading, and she points out that the story of Guinevere and Lancelot is a romance, even if he insists on referring to it as “King Arthur and the Round Table.”
Disney’s remade several of their animated classics at this point includingAlice in Wonderland,Sleeping Beauty(asMaleficent),Cinderella, andThe Jungle Book, butBeauty and the Beastwill be the first film from the 1990s Disney Renaissance to get the live-action treatment. The new film certainly has big shoes to fill — even of those Renaissance-era pictures,Beauty and the Beastis considered one of the best.
Beauty and the Beastarrives in theatersMarch 17, 2017. But you’re able to catch up with the classic animated version before that when theBeauty and the Beast25th Anniversary Edition hits Digital HDSeptember 6and Blu-raySeptember 20.
Directed by Oscar® winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, the screenplay is by Evan Spiliotopoulos and Bill Condon and Stephen Chbosky and is produced by Mandeville Films' David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, with eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three-time Oscar winner Tim Rice. “Beauty and the Beast” will be released in U.S. theaters on August 08, 2025.
