Then, abruptly at the start of the year, the project wasindefinitely put on hold.
Evans, sitting down over Zoom with EW for his new filmPinocchio, promises the series will happen.
“It’s been put on hold.
Josh Gad and Luke Evans in ‘Beauty and the Beast’.Laurie Sparham/Disney
“We want to honor these characters with the best story we can possibly deliver.
It’s just on hold.
It is gonna happen.
Luke Evans as the Coachman in Disney’s live-action, CG-animated ‘Pinocchio’.Disney +
We’re very excited about it.
At some point in the near future, it will happen.”
Evans says he and Gad talk all the time.
That opened up several cans of worms,” Evans recalls.
There’s a lot of ways it could go.
Even Gadsayshe felt the moment didn’t go far enough.
I’m not sure."
“Were they always these creatures or were they different?
It’s a bit like, no one’s born bad.
I think that was where we were going with the idea and concept.
So I hope one day soon we will be able to deliver that story for you guys.”
For now, Evans can be seen on screen in another Disney production as the Coachman inPinocchio.
He was surprised to get the call from directorRobert Zemeckisabout joining the new film.
He thoughtBeauty and the Beastwas a one-and-done job with the Mouse House.
“It’s the cocktail of creatives and the concept that I thought was brilliant,” Evans continues.
He wanted to bring a sense of authenticity and integrity to those same scenes in the new film.
“My character, for example, is nothing like he is in the animation.
He’s much darker and scarier.
Although the one in the animation was scary, but I’m also a real human being.
I can move differently.
We were able to incorporate physical things within the character that we couldn’t have done with the animation.
I embrace all that.
I think most of the time it’s warranted in films.
This one definitely is warranted.”
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