"Beauty and the Beast" is my second favorite animated Disney movie of all time ("The Lion King" is the first). So I'll admit, I was a bit skeptical when I first learned the movie was being adapted into a live-action picture.
Then the first photos emerged. While many were excited, I couldn't help but feel slightly underwhelmed by the Beast and a bit skeptical of the design for Lumiere and Mrs. Potts.
Finally, Disney premiered the first official trailer for the movie Monday morning and it has restored my faith in the tale as old as time. Dan Stevens sounds like the Beast we know, Belle seems like she's been updated and remixed for the 21st century, and Cogsworth is downright adorable.
Keep reading to see what has us excited for the movie next March.
Belle's look helps bring her into the 21st century.
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Emma Watson told Entertainment Weekly that one of the changes to Belle's ensemble would be switching out her flats to more durable, practical footwear.
While Belle's footsteps echoing inside the castle and down the stone steps to the basement are one of my favorite sounds in the film, the shoes just never made sense for horseback riding.
Look at the basic flats she originally wore compared to her new shoes.
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This won't be a straight-forward adaptation of the animated tale we know — and that's great.
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So far, Disney's live-action adaptations of "Maleficent" and "The Jungle Book" have thrived in theaters. Both have deviated from following their animated predecessors by adding more context to the original stories to explore other characters and add more depth to the overall narrative.
"Beauty and the Beast" will definitely be making some changes and additions from the animated tale as well. One of them appears to be how Belle's father Maurice winds up with the Beast.
In the animated movie, Maurice lost his way while heading to an inventor's fair and wound up at the Beast's castle. It was always a little tough to believe that Belle's inventor father would head down a dark path instead of a brighter, sunnier road. Here, it looks like Belle's father just plucked a flower from the wrong garden — something more in line with the original tale — and wound up in the Beast's unfortunate care.
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