Last time Disney went to the fantasy Middle East with Prince Of Persia it didn’t turn out particularly well (in fact it made a massive loss), but the House Of Mouse has been having plenty of success with live-action takes on its classic animated tales, so they’re now planning to go back to Arabia with a prequel to Aladdin.
The film is currently titled Genies, and as you may have guessed it centres on the character in the magic lamp. Although it’s early days and no script has been written the idea is that it will tell the story of how the Genie got into that lamp in the first place, and will largely be set in ‘realm of the Genies’, according to THR.
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift are on screenplay duties.
The film joins a packed Disney animated-to-live-action roster that includes Beauty & The Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, Prince Charming and several others.