{"id":16894,"date":"2015-03-16T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16894"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:29:23","slug":"emma-thompson-kevin-kline-cast-in-beauty-and-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/emma-thompson-kevin-kline-cast-in-beauty-and-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor, Provincial Town in Beauty and the Beast Welcomes 2 New Cast Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Disney&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Disney<\/strong><\/a> continues to move speedily along with their upcoming live-action musical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Beauty+and+the+Beast&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Beauty and the Beast<\/strong><\/em><\/a> film. Two new cast members have the project today and we officially have a release date.<\/p>\n<p>After many rumors, it&#8217;s confirmed that <strong>Emma Thompson<\/strong> (<em>Harry Potter, Saving Mr. Banks, Sense and Sensibility<\/em>) will be Mrs. Potts. She&#8217;s one of the great British actresses of the century and we think she&#8217;ll make a wonderful Mrs. Potts, able to be motherly and compassionate while still putting Lumiere and Cogsworth in their places.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re casting the enchanted objects and continuing the trend of a British cast (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/03\/13\/josh-gad-lefou-disney-live-action-beauty-and-the-beast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">except for Josh Gad<\/a>), might I recommend David Tennant and Stephen Fry for Lumiere and Cogsworth, Disney?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Kline<\/strong> (<em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, A Fish Called Wanda<\/em>) will play father to Emma Watson as Maurice, the inventor called crazy by the townspeople. Timothy Spall was previously rumored for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Disney confirmed that the movie will feature the original songs from the 1991 animated film. There&#8217;s still no word if any of the Broadway songs will make the cut, but Thompson better get ready to sing the title song, as it&#8217;s one of the most moving moments in the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>The film also has a release date: March 17, 2017. It will be released in 3D, with a mix of CGI and live-action.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson and Kline join Emma Watson as Belle, Josh Gad as Lefou, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/03\/05\/live-action-beauty-and-the-beast-cast-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Evans and Dan Stevens as Gaston and Beast<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this casting? Are you more excited for the movie now? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney continues to move speedily along with their upcoming live-action musical Beauty and the Beast film. Two new cast members have the project today and we officially have a release date. After many rumors, it&#8217;s confirmed that Emma Thompson (Harry Potter, Saving Mr. Banks, Sense and Sensibility) will be Mrs. Potts. She&#8217;s one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[1393,402,2353,3145,112,2354,2356,2355],"yst_prominent_words":[6465,15372,6388,18626,18623,8147,5872,17874,17870,6413,8998,18467,16506,18625,18621,18624,7932,8220,14577,18622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68558,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions\/68558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16894"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}