The success of live action fantasy films has inspired Disney to bring the live-action treatment to many of its classic animated tales: Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book, and now Beauty and the Beast. Modernised retellings of art or pointless exercises? Should Hollywood be investing in adaptations of lesser known fantasy (ala “The Princess Bride”) instead? Kaitlin Bevis, Darbi Kircher, Patty Hawkins, Darin Bush
