Luke Evans as Gaston in 2017’s ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Photo: Disney.
Preview:
- Disney is developing a Gaston movie.
- The character was last seen in the live-action ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
- Dave Callaham will write the script.
No-one spins off like Gaston?
If Disney has its way, the boastful, buffoonish character from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ will be getting his own movie.
Last seen in 2017 live-action take on the fairy tale, there played by Luke Evans, the character is now the focus of development on a new film.
Release Date: Mar 17, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 9 min
Budget: $160,000,000
While the success of that movie –– which also starred Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Josh Gad –– spurred development of a potential spin-off TV series starring Evans and Gad (who was his loyal sidekick LeFou), that didn’t come to pass. But according to Deadline, the studio is energized by the new concept (more on that in a moment).
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What’s the story of the Gaston movie?
Gaston (Richard White) in 1991’s animated ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Photo: Disney.
Gaston first appeared in Disney’s original 1991 animated classic (there voiced by Richard White) as an arrogant and ruthless hunter who had unrequited feelings for the main protagonist, the beauty Belle, and ultimately becomes the main adversary of The Beast.
With Dave Callaham –– who has worked across a variety of movies and genres, writing the likes of ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,’‘Godzilla x Kong’ and ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ –– on script duty and Michelle Rejwan (‘Andor’) aboard to produce, the story is being kept largely under wraps.
That said, Deadline’s sources have heard that it’ll be a new and original take on the character with a new actor, and that the film will have “swashbuckling” tones to it.
Evans was a great Gaston in the 2017 effort, so whoever takes over the character’s smug mantle will have some big boots to fill. And might the movie go the ‘Cruella’ route and chart where his attitude came from?
When will the Gaston movie be in theaters?
Gaston (Richard White) in 1991’s animated ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Photo: Disney.
With no director aboard yet and zero casting, don’t expect to see this one on screens just yet. Disney has also to yet to officially announce the movie either.
