Watch The Final Trailer For Beauty And The Beast

 

Director Bill Condon breathes new life into an age-old classic in this final, enchanting trailer for Beauty and the Beast. Extracting the core elements of the 1991 classic and projecting them onto a much grander scale, up above we’re introduced to Emma Watson as the graceful Belle, a young bookworm and inventor who comes into contact with the Beast (Dan Stevens), only to discover that the towering monstrosity is much kinder than he appears.

Though she flirted with the possibility of donning Cinderella’s iconic, magical slippers for Kenneth Branagh, Watson took a liking to the character of Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and previous promos for Disney’s imminent remake showcase that the former Harry Potter star has truly embraced the role. Elsewhere on the casting docket, Luke Evans will play the part of Gaston, Emma Thompson stars as Mrs. Potts, Gugu Mbatha-Raw is Plumette and Kevin Kline will be Belle’s father, Maurice. Josh Gad and Stanley Tucci also star, and March 17 is the date for your diaries.

Beauty and the Beast is by no means the only fairytale in line for the remake treatment; in its continued endeavour to overhaul its unrivalled back catalogue into live-action features, the Mouse House has already hatched plans for Mulan, Snow White, a Emma Stone-led Cruella and The Lion King, the latter of which will be directed by Jon Favreau after the filmmaker steered The Jungle Book toward global success in 2016.