This is unquestionably the age of latest variations — and we’ve acquired one other one on the horizon. A brand new model of the Middle Eastern folktale Aladdin, titled Aladdin: The Monkey’s Paw will start manufacturing subsequent month. But let’s simply say it’s not precisely the 1992 Disney-fied model of Aladdin we all know and love.
This new live-action adaptation is being touted as a “darkish, supernatural reimagining” of the unique legend and is ready to star Nick Sagar, Ricky Norwood, Montana Manning, and Bradley Stryker. Stryker can even produce and direct from a script by Charley McDougall. Production will happen within the UK, the place the movie is ready.
Deadline revealed the movie’s synopsis, which reads, “A contemporary-day Londoner, Aladdin, inherits an historic monkey’s paw believed to grant needs, solely to find that each want comes at a soul-crushing worth. As these round him fall sufferer to its curse, he should confront a rising evil — and the demonic drive that feeds on each want made.”
This specific story, and the way it might be linked to horror, seems to be private to the movie’s group. “We all the time wished to discover horror by means of a private lens — not simply the scares, however the human price of needs,” the movie’s author defined in a press release to the outlet. “This story’s been haunting us for some time, and it’s time to let it unfastened. The greatest horror movies hang-out you lengthy after the credit roll. That’s what this story does. It’s sharp, emotional, and filled with dread in all the proper methods. We’re not simply making one other horror movie — we’re constructing a world round a really iconic idea. The paw, the mythology, the characters — it’s all there.”
Disney’s 1992 hit animated adaptation is maybe probably the most well-known and beloved of all film variations of the folktale, however the story has been translated to movie many occasions through the years, each in animated and live-action kinds, in addition to in English and different languages. The 2019 live-action remake of Disney’s authentic — starring Smile 2’s Naomi Scott, if you happen to didn’t already know — is the newest try to carry the legend into trendy occasions.
No launch date for this horror twist on a traditional, however we’re too curious to not be there when it drops.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
