The first trailer for Beauty and the Beast dropped online earlier this week, and while it was light on substantial footage it did a good job of reminding us of the 1991 animated classic. YouTuber studiOrbit has put the live-action teaser next to scenes from the universally beloved animated film and the similarities are, to say the least, striking.
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It's fascinating to see just how many callbacks to the original film are present in the live-action trailer. With next year's remake once again calling on Alan Menken - who scored the animated film - to provide the music, there will likely be lots more parallels between the old and the new in Bill Condon's final cut too. Considering Beauty and the Beast landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination back in 1991, that may not necessarily be a bad thing.
Directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Emma Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, and Stanley Tucci, Beauty and the Beast is set for release on March 17, 2017.
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