{"id":215566,"date":"2025-10-21T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:44:09","slug":"disney-just-released-a-twisted-new-version-of-its-34-year-old-animated-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215566\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Just Released a Twisted New Version of Its 34-Year-Old Animated Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney\u2019s<\/a> catalog of animated classics is second to none, especially when you\u2019re narrowing the focus to its classic 2D animated films<\/a>. Across all genres, Disney has delivered some truly iconic films, including Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid<\/a>, and 101 Dalmatians, just to name a few. Now Disney has taken one of its most iconic animated classics and created a new, much more twisted version, and the best news is that you can dive into that twisted new world right now.<\/p>\n

Disney and Webtoon have teamed up to reimagine one of the best animated films in Disney\u2019s catalog, and that would be Beauty and the Beast. The new twisted version of the story is titled Disney As Old As Time: A Twisted Tale<\/a>, and is an adaptation written by Beatrice Bassoli and Francesca Siviero, with artwork by Chiara Bracale and Rossella Gentile (via Collider<\/a>). If you assumed this would just be a slightly darker version of the story though, you\u2019d be quite wrong, as this new version takes some pretty serious (and brutal) swings.<\/p>\n

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Disney As Old As Time: A Twisted Tale begins much like the Disney original, with an egotistical Prince who mocks a person approaching his castle, with that person turning out to be a powerful enchantress. After being turned into a beast who needs to seek love, Belle ends up at the castle much like the original story, but then things take a major turn that many won\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n

The original animated movie didn\u2019t include much talk of Belle\u2019s mother, and though the live-action adaptation addresses Belle\u2019s mother in a bigger way, she still didn\u2019t play a huge part in the present-day story. That\u2019s all changed in A Twisted Tale, as the story teases that Belle can\u2019t actually remember much of her mother, and that\u2019s because Belle\u2019s mother is revealed to be the enchantress who turned the Prince into the Beast.<\/p>\n

That sets them off on an adventure to figure out how everything connects, while The Beast still has to find love and someone who reciprocates that love to avoid being a beast forever. It\u2019s a unique spin on a beloved classic, and with that big reveal, it changes one of the foundational aspects of Belle and Beast\u2019s dynamic. You can check out the official description below.<\/p>\n

\u201cClever and imaginative, Belle longs to escape her provincial town to find adventure. Only, Belle\u2019s father won\u2019t leave. He\u2019s waiting for her mother to return\u2014 a mother Belle can\u2019t remember. But when Belle\u2019s father is taken prisoner by a terrifying Beast, she offers to take his place to save his life. Belle finds the Beast\u2019s enchanted rose, and when she touches it, images flood her mind with memories of the mother she believed she would never see again. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast must work together to unravel a dark mystery about their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Episodes 1, 2, and 3 are now available on Webtoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s catalog of animated classics is second to none, especially when you\u2019re narrowing the focus to its classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92662,6460,96,2839,1092,56,54,55,92663],"class_list":["post-215566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-beauty-and-the-beast-generic","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-regular-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-webtoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}