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JeanGreyForever wrote:I have no idea who the two men in between Josh Gad and Alan Menken are but I guess this basically confirms Josh Gad's involvement.

The composer went on to clarify the next Disney live-action remakes which are in the works: "They're developing Hunchback, which will be complicated because there are dark aspects to that which we're going to have to navigate."

Speaking of complications with updating some of his back catalogue of Disney films, he went on to speak frankly about those which would be problematic to remake for modern audiences.

"I don't know if we'll ever be able to do Pocahontas, I think that story is going to be difficult. With modern sensibilities, it'd be hard – you're going to offend somebody – so I don't know," Menken explained.

ChrisLyne wrote:I'm guessing this will land somewhere between the original and the stage show in terms of tone. I think if they do it straight for Disney+ that might give them the freedom to go a bit darker.

DisneyFan97 wrote:I really want them to keep Victor, Hugo and Laverne in this remake ! I liked them.

But i think in this remake they should make them less silly and they should only exist in Quasimodo's mind.

Well, “Hunchback” is at the very starting gate. I haven’t even seen a first draft of anything, script-wise. I have questions about it. What are we going to be able to put into a live-action version of “Hunchback” that will still go under the name Disney? That becomes a question that will be hard to answer without specifics.

DisneyFan09 wrote:To be honest, I always thought that Pocahontas had a better chance of getting a remake than Hunchback. Regardless of it's own controversy (and po-faced nature), at least Pocahontas doesn't have the radical and sexual undertones and that Hunchback had, so therefore it could be more appliable.
Yet what hampers Pocahontas is that it didn't have the crowdpleasing appeal that Disney usually has, so therefore it's less likely to be a candidate for being adapted.

But truth to be told, I've would loved if Disney actually dared to give Pocahontas a remake shot.

Deadline reported at the beginning of the year that Disney was developing the remake, to be titled simply Hunchback, with Josh Gad attached as producer. This led many to theorize that the Beauty and the Beast actor may also play the lead. Well, We Got This Covered has been told that this is indeed the likely scenario.

On the other hand, we’ve also heard who Disney is eyeing for another key role: Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is being considered for the part of Captain Phoebus. In the 1997 animated film, Phoebus – ally to Quasimodo and love interest of Esmeralda – was voiced by Kevin Kline. Coster-Waldau would certainly be a good fit for a tougher iteration of the character, perhaps slightly closer to the darker version from the original novel and other adaptations.