{"id":319237,"date":"2025-12-16T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:07","slug":"disney-working-on-live-action-gaston-movie-from-dave-callaham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319237\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Working On Live-Action Gaston Movie From Dave Callaham"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s just one guy in town who’s got a live-action spin-off in the works and his name’s G-A-S-T-E…. G-A-S-T-O… oh… Gaston! Yes, four years after a Beauty & The Beast<\/a> Disney+ prequel series<\/a> based around expectorating specialist \u2014 and all-round wrong’un \u2014 Gaston was first announced, the House Of Mouse is pivoting to new, feature-length plans for its iconic villain. Per Deadline<\/a>‘s reporting, a live-action Gaston movie is in development at the studio, with Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse<\/a> co-writer Dave Callaham tackling the script and The Force Awakens<\/a> and Andor<\/a> producer Michelle Rejwan overseeing the project.<\/p>\n

Now, to clarify up-top, this new Gaston movie is not the same thing as Josh Gad’s now-canned prequel show, so there’ll be no Gad and Luke Evans reteam this time around, and \u2014 as far as we know \u2014 it won’t be a Gaston and LeFou musical adventure. Rather, it’s Deadline’s understanding that Callaham’s script \u2014 previously drafted by Doctor Who’s ‘Rogue’<\/a> duo Kate Herron and Briony Redman \u2014 will mark a move away from 2017’s live-action Beauty & The Beast<\/a>. As the trade reports, this will be “a new and original” film with a new actor playing Gaston and a “swashbuckling” tone, something which Disney’s top brass are apparently very pleased about at this early developmental stage.<\/p>\n

Given the wildly differing results attained by Disney’s past live-action villain outings, misfiring Sleeping Beauty off-shoot Maleficent<\/a> (and follow-up Mistress Of Evil<\/a>) and Craig Gillespie’s surprisingly punchy Cruella<\/a>, we’ll wait with bated breath to see how this Gaston movie progresses. But with a solid writer and experienced producer aboard, and one of Disney’s greatest love-to-hate villains front and centre, consider our curiosity piqued. Five hurrahs and twelve hip-hips pending!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s just one guy in town who’s got a live-action spin-off in the works and his name’s G-A-S-T-E….…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-319237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319237","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=319237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}