--- title: Live-Action Remakes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Jungle Book description: Disney has three live-action adaptations of its animated classics in the works canonical: https://time.com/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/ author: Stephanie Burnett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-05T05:53:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:13:40.205Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Live-Action Remakes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Jungle Book og:description: Disney has three live-action adaptations of its animated classics in the works og:url: https://time.com/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc08d2a369bd73b19/69869649f983e7437f04e450/beauty-and-beast_walt-disney-productions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Disney Beauty and the Beast og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Live-Action Remakes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Jungle Book twitter:description: Disney has three live-action adaptations of its animated classics in the works twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc08d2a369bd73b19/69869649f983e7437f04e450/beauty-and-beast_walt-disney-productions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Disney Greenlights Three Live-Action Remakes by [Stephanie Burnett](/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Jun 5, 2014 5:53 AM CUT  Beauty and the Beast is set for a live-action remake Beauty and the Beast is set for a live-action remakeWalt Disney Productions by [Stephanie Burnett](/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Jun 5, 2014 5:53 AM CUT Hot on the heels of box-office hit _Maleficent_, Disney is eyeing similar success with a live-action remake of 1991 animation classic _Beauty and the Beast_ and two other much loved titles. No word yet on who is rumored to play Belle or the Beast, but slated to direct is Bill Condon, who is most well known for his work on _Dreamgirls_ and parts one and two of _The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn_. According to [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/bill-condon-beauty-and-the-beast-disney-1201151834/ "undefined"), Evan Spiliotopoulos (_The Lion King 1½_, _Hercules_) will pen the screenplay. _Beauty and the Beast_ joins two other live-action reboots in the pipeline: _The Jungle Book_ will be directed by Jon Favreau and _Cinderella_ by Kenneth Branagh. \[[_Entertainment Weekly_](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/06/04/bill-condon-live-action-beauty-and-the-beast/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/"},"headline":"Disney Greenlights Three Live-Action Remakes","datePublished":"2014-06-05T05:53:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:13:40.205Z","description":"Disney animated classics Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and The Jungle Book are to be given live-action reboots, following the smash success of Maleficent","url":"https://time.com/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/","keywords":["movies","Disney","Beauty and the Beast","Cinderella"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc08d2a369bd73b19/69869649f983e7437f04e450/beauty-and-beast_walt-disney-productions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Burnett","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc08d2a369bd73b19/69869649f983e7437f04e450/beauty-and-beast_walt-disney-productions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Disney Beauty and the Beast","caption":"Disney BEAUTY & THE BEAST 3D","creditText":"Walt Disney Productions","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/2825022/disney-beauty-and-the-beast-jungle-book-cinderella-live-action/","name":"Disney Greenlights Three Live-Action Remakes"}}]}] ```