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Colman Domingo and Robert O’Hara in Talks to Write Live-Action Princess Tiana Movie
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/colm ... IaQRnZdkhA

Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo and “Slave Play” director Robert O’Hara are in talks to write a live-action film about Princess Tiana from Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog.”

Looks like the Moana flop isn't going to deter Disney from mining their more recent works for live-action adaptations. I'm guessing that this is going to be used to salvage ideas from the abandoned tv series.

This is actually more on target for what I would have liked to have seen from these live-action "reimaginings" of animated Disney pics. We already have a "The Jungle Book" film and it's already perfect. I would have much rather seen like an original musical spin-off centering on Baloo or something. (I guess on paper, that means I would have rather taken the Mufasa origin story than the 2019 photocopy which ... I suppose is also how they stack in my final ranking anyway?)

Anyways, really hope this is a musical.

Well, this is just stupid and a guaranteed flop. People would only be interested in a sequel if it was animated.

A shame because I'd been wanting them to do a remake of the original, this one's inevitable massive floppage will guarantee a TP&TF remake won't happen as a result. A film with Lupita Nyong'o as Tiana opposite Colman Domingo as Facilier would've been so good, too. Only other real question mark would be who could play Naveen well.

Details from the original report.

Hot off of notching two Emmy noms this year, we hear that Colman Domingo is looking to co-write an original live-action feature about Princess Tiana inspired by Disney‘s animated 2009 feature The Princess and the Frog. We understand, per sources, that the two-time Oscar nominee will co-pen the feature with 2020 Tony-nominated Slave Play director Robert O’Hara. It’s still early days on the project, particularly as far as deals go. We hear that Domingo and O’Hara’s take is being billed as a spinoff of the animated feature rather than a full-on adaptation, a la Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast project that’s in the works, Gaston.

Source: https://deadline.com/2026/07/colman-dom ... 236997261/