The Beauty and the Beast hype is very real. On Monday, the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake starring Emma Watson was viewed a record-breaking 91.8 million times, which just goes to show how much Disney's animated classic has stuck with fans over the years.
I recently got a chance to speak with Alice Through the Looking Glass screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who also wrote the original 1991 Beauty and the Beast movie. While she's not involved with the remake, she said she was very excited to see the new film drawing from her take on the story and characters. "It makes me really, really happy," she said, upon learning how many people watched the teaser in such a short time. "It's fantastic. I'm really excited about what they're doing."
When asked about her Beauty and the Beast's lasting power, Woolvertoon noted how Belle was a "new and surprising" Disney Princess for the time. The character was notoriously reworked during production; Woolverton wanted Belle to be more adventurous, while original storyboards showed her decorating cakes. Eventually a compromise was made, and they settled on Belle's interest in books.
She was captured, but she transformed him.
Woolverton also addressed a popular controversy that's been making the rounds online recently. "There's been a lot of talk about Stockholm syndrome, that [Belle] fell in love with her captor," she said. "But I disagree! She was captured, but she transformed him. She didn't become, you know, an object. [Laughs] She didn't turn into a beast! She transformed him. So it was certainly the transformative power of love and what it can do."
The screenwriter also offered an update on Maleficent 2, which is that she's currently in the middle of writing the script. "This very minute, it's blinking at my computer," she laughed. Of course, she couldn't offer much in the way of story details, but she did say that the sequel will focus on "the next step in the relationship between Maleficent and Aurora."
The Beauty and the Beast remake hits theaters March 17, 2017, followed by Maleficent 2 sometime after that.
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