This is the great fashion of the moment: take all the classics of the cartoon to adapt them to live-action movies, that is to say shot in live action . After The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo , Aladdin or The Lion King (the last three have not yet come out at the movies), Disney is tackling a new project: The Hunchback of Notre Dame .
The same composer. This is the Deadline site that revealed the information. No release date is known, but the studio has dispatched David Henry Hwang (screenwriter including Mr. Butterfly and the Chinese saga The Monkey King ) to write this new version of the adventures of Quasimodo and Esmeralda. The name of Josh Gad (already seen in Beauty and the Beast or Las Vegas 21 ) is advanced to play the Hunchback, without this being confirmed. In contrast, the music will be entrusted to Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. The first had already composed the soundtrack of the 1996 cartoon.