Chances are you’ll wish to put away your magic carpets for some time, of us. Chances are you’ll not want them, if Aladdin star Mena Massoud is to be believed. The headliner of Man Ritchie‘s live-action remake of the beloved Disney animation has poured chilly water on the prospect of a return to Agrabah.
Massoud starred alongside Will Smith – enjoying the well-known position of The Genie of the Lamp, first portrayed by Robin Williams – within the 2019 movie, which was an enormous monetary success regardless of blended important evaluations. However regardless of the field workplace boon it offered, its star thinks the story has come to an finish.
“Impossible at this level,” Massoud tweeted when responding to a fan who enquired concerning the prospect of Aladdin 2 going forward. Nonetheless, this appears to be at odds with Ritchie, who spoke brazenly and optimistically concerning the prospect of one other spherical with Agrabah’s most well-known avenue rat. Ritchie instructed Collider that he’d “very very similar to to” make a sequel.
I might very very similar to to. I can not inform you how a lot I loved that have. It was an important expertise. That complete Disney factor, as you’ll be able to think about, is such knowledgeable outfit. Simply from that perspective, it was a lot enjoyable. I might very very similar to to, we’ll wait and see. We’ve been kicking some concepts round for a while now, but it surely’d be nice to do, it could be nice to return there.
Disney Had Beforehand Been Eager on a Sequel
A sequel had beforehand been reported as being within the works at Disney, with the studio hiring writers John Gatins (Flight, Actual Metal) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton, The Kitchen) to determine the following path for the story. Ritchie was reported as being set to return, alongside Massoud, Smith and Naomi Scott, who performed Princess Jasmine within the remake.
A sequel appeared a no brainer on the time for Disney, with the unique grossing $1.05 billion on the world field workplace. However since then, plenty of Disney movies have seen diminishing monetary returns in a world modified by the pandemic. The danger-to-reward issue could also be seen as too nice for the studio, which has introduced it’s reducing again on sure forms of content material beneath the returning management of Bob Iger, who changed his successor Bob Chapek as CEO of the Walt Disney Firm.
Ritchie’s subsequent movie, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, arrives in theaters on March 3. You’ll be able to try the interview between Weintraub and the writer-director beneath which additionally consists of an replace on Sherlock Holmes 3.
