Gaston and LeFou take center stage. The Disney + streaming platform has partnered with the creators of Once Upon a Time (Once Upon a Time), Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, as well as with the stars Josh Gad and Luke Evans for a limited series that will serve as prequel to the movie Beauty and the Beast of the year 2017.
The limited untitled series will be a six-episode musical event, with the composer Alan Menken in conversations to also return to the project. According The Hollywood Reporter, the series is in an initial stage of development and will tell a story well before the events of the film. No other star in the movie, like Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, is currently linked to the series, although the source points out that there is a possibility that they may appear as guests.
The actors of Gaston and LeFou will also be executive producers of the project whose scripts will be carried out by Gad, Kitsis and Horowitz. ABC Signature Studios is the studio of the series. The Beauty and the Beast movie of 2017 raised more than 100,000 million at the global box office, so that This prequel is a possible star product of the platform.
Currently, Disney + has released a series based on the Star Wars saga, The Mandalorian. Likewise, there are also three series of Marvel on the way: Loki, WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Among the other projects, one of Pixar, Monsters, Inc, the series of High School Musical and the return of Lizzie McGuire, which is currently in stand by.
