{"id":4618,"date":"2016-11-16T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:02:03","slug":"classic-tales-retold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/classic-tales-retold\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic tales retold"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Alyssa James\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Walt Disney Pictures has been working hard on making many new live-action movies recently: \u201cCinderella\u201d and \u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d to name a couple. Although, they haven\u2019t stopped there. They are in the midst of working on and releasing new live-action movies within the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The new live-action version of \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d stars Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew all the words by heart. I knew all the songs by heart,\u201d said Watson to Entertainment Weekly when asked about the film.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be the classic fairy tale retold. If you aren\u2019t familiar with the story, it is about a prince who, due to his arrogance, becomes the Beast and must learn to love and receive love before he can turn back into the prince. The story follows the young woman whom he traps in his castle and their love story.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been talk about two other live-action movies. \u201cSnow White\u201d and \u201cOliver Twist\u201d are in the works, both being produced by Marc Platt, known for such performances as Broadway\u2019s \u201cWicked.\u201d There is not much information currently about who will star in these movies or when they will be released.<\/p>\n<p>Although information is lacking, we still know a little about each of these movies. \u201cSnow White\u201d will be a musical and will expand on the original story while \u201cOliver Twist\u201d, though also a musical, will be set in present-day America. Other upcoming movies to watch out for information about are the live-action adaptations of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d and \u201cThe Lion King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d will be in theaters March 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at ajames16@mail.wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Alyssa James Staff Writer Walt Disney Pictures has been working hard on making many new live-action movies recently: \u201cCinderella\u201d and \u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d to name a couple. Although, they haven\u2019t stopped there. They are in the midst of working on and releasing new live-action movies within the next few years. The new live-action version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}