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Watch the first trail­er for Beau­ty and the Beast

15 Nov 2016

Words by Caroline Middleton

The Dis­ney ani­mat­ed clas­sic is set to hit screens as a CG-dri­ven spectacle.

In case you’ve been liv­ing under a rock and with head­phones pump­ing quaint show­tunes into your brain­case, there’s a live-action adap­ta­tion of Beau­ty and the Beast on its way… and the first trail­er final­ly here.

The film is part of Disney’s recent efforts to jolt new life out of its clas­sic ani­mat­ed hold­ings by remak­ing each one as a ​“live action” spec­ta­cle. Hol­ly­wood vet­er­an Bill Con­don is at the helm, and in this first peek we get to wit­ness Dan Stevens’ Beast in all his CGI splen­dour. The effect is sat­is­fy­ing­ly believ­able, much to the relief of die-hard Dis­ney afi­ciona­dos. Emma Wat­son, co-stars as the beau­ti­ful Belle, and is clad in the same dress imag­ined in the 1991 ani­mat­ed original.

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In the trail­er, Belle’s father, Mau­rice, is impris­oned for cut­ting a white rose from the Beast’s gar­den, and event that trig­gers ​“a tale as old as time”. Belle then comes to the cas­tle to find him. The visu­als look promis­ing, Mrs Potts, Chip, Lumiere and Cogsworth are all present and cor­rect, and Luke Evans is per­fect­ly cast as the greedy Gas­ton, pitch­ing his fork to ​“Kill the Beast!” in the trail­er. Backed by Alan Menken’s orig­i­nal score which has been boost­ed with some new ele­ments, we’re just as impa­tient as Gas­ton is to watch the full film when it is released in March 2017.

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