--- description: In this version, Jack meets a 60-foot-tall 11-year-old girl title: Disney Announces Animated Jack and the Beanstalk Movie 'Gigantic' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dd9c789584562a8/69885f77e20a870997a8cc53/gettyimages-484053306.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Disney Announces Animated Jack and the Beanstalk Movie _Gigantic_  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 2:27 PM CUT  Producer Dorothy McKim (L) and director Nathan Greno of GIGANTIC took part today in "Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films" presentation at Disney's D23 EXPO 2015 in Anaheim, Calif. Producer Dorothy McKim (L) and director Nathan Greno of GIGANTIC took part today in "Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films" presentation at Disney's D23 EXPO 2015 in Anaheim, Calif.Jesse Grant—Getty Images for Disney  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 2:27 PM CUT Disney is putting its own spin on a beloved fairytale. The company [announced](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/14/gigantic-disney-jack-and-beanstalk-d23 "undefined") Friday at the D23 Expo that it will transform the Jack and the Beanstalk story into an animated film called _Gigantic. Tangled_ director Nathan Greno will helm the project. In this version of the story, Jack hails from 15th-century Spain, “the age of discovery,” Greno told the D23 audience, according to _Entertainment Weekly_. Jack will discover not just one castle and one giant but a whole new world, beginning with a 60-ft.-tall 11-year-old girl named Inma. “She gets her hands on a grown man Jack, and she thinks he’s a toy,” said Greno, who added that the character was inspired by a young girl they met while scouting locations in Spain. Inma even gets her own song, which the award-winning _Frozen_ duo, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, previewed at the event. The Lopezes will score the entire film. > [](https://twitter.com/Disney/status/632327910716633088) Following the success of _Frozen’_s independent princesses, Disney has invested in creating a more diverse range of female characters, including the new character Inma. The studio also plans to bring another feisty princess to the big screen in _Moana._ The 16-year-old Moana, living in the South Pacific nearly 2,000 years ago, sets out on a dangerous sea voyage with her pet piglet Pua as a stowaway. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3999429/disney-jack-beanstalk-gigantic-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3999429/disney-jack-beanstalk-gigantic-movie/"},"headline":"Disney Announces Animated Jack and the Beanstalk Movie Gigantic","datePublished":"2015-08-15T14:27:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:12:25.370Z","description":"In this version, Jack meets a 60-ft.-tall 11-year-old girl","url":"https://time.com/3999429/disney-jack-beanstalk-gigantic-movie/","keywords":["movies","Disney"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dd9c789584562a8/69885f77e20a870997a8cc53/gettyimages-484053306.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dd9c789584562a8/69885f77e20a870997a8cc53/gettyimages-484053306.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Pixar And Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films\" Presentation At Disney's D23 EXPO 2015","caption":"\"Pixar And Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films\" Presentation At Disney's D23 EXPO 2015","creditText":"Jesse Grant—Getty Images for Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3999429/disney-jack-beanstalk-gigantic-movie/","name":"Disney Announces Animated Jack and the Beanstalk Movie Gigantic"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. 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