BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CASTING – Stanley Tucci is the latest actor linked to Disney’s live adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, reportedly set to play Cadenza the grand piano, a brand new character created for the film!
Tucci recently starred in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 as the boisterous television host Caesar Flickerman. He is projected to star in the thriller Spotlight with Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, and Mark Ruffalo, set for release later this year. He will reprise his role as Caesar Flickerman one last time in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 when it hits theaters November 2015.
Tucci’s potential role in Beauty and the Beast comes shortly after the recent casting of Ewan McGregor as the lively candelabra Lumiere. The upcoming film centers on the unorthodox romance between a young woman and a cursed prince.
Beauty and the Beast is directed by Bill Condon and also stars Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, and Josh Gad as Le Fou, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, and Kevin Kline as Maurice, Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, and Audra McDonald as the Garderobe, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
PLOT: A live-action adaptation of Disney’s version of the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’ tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
RELEASE DATES:
- US – March 17, 2017
Source: Variety
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