{"id":49361,"date":"2015-01-26T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/tale-as-old-as-time-again.html"},"modified":"2015-01-26T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:38:23","slug":"tale-as-old-as-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/tale-as-old-as-time-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Tale as Old as Time (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how I&#39;m feeling about the general concept of (a) Disney re-doing its animation library as live-action films, or (b) Disney doing it to one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <i>what do you mean &quot;Beauty and the Beast&quot; was released almost a quarter of a century ago?!<\/i>  Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>And <i>that<\/i> said, I have no idea of Emma Watson can sing, but there&#39;s a lot about this casting I like.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Geeks of Doom<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23EmmaWatson\">#EmmaWatson<\/a> Cast As <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Belle\">#Belle<\/a> In <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Disney\">#Disney<\/a>&#39;s Live-Action <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23BeautyAndTheBeast\">#BeautyAndTheBeast<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23BillCondon\">#BillCondon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following Maleficent and the upcoming Cinderella and The Jungle Book, Disney will be releasing a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Bill Condon (DreamGirls), the film will join Disney&#39;s trend of transforming their hit animated films&hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2015\/01\/26\/emma-watson-cast-belle-disneys-live-action-beauty-beast'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/vUfrv7VgSM1zKVhxWduR6OSuFA-O4zS9kPtOC4Pb9Ge1dKcEpp57mMhrHxANsstSXqEVqOTgBN-CUM9CNPMTgcU1wrTZjNRWA1XE1NAwXW4ZYA=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2015\/01\/26\/emma-watson-cast-belle-disneys-live-action-beauty-beast'>Emma Watson Cast As Belle In Disney&#8217;s Live-Action &#8216;Beauty and The Beast&#8217; &#8211; Geeks of Doom<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Harry Potter actress will dance and sing as Belle in Disney&#8217;s live-action Beauty and the Beast film.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YL2JfAhxhF3'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how I&#39;m feeling about the general concept of (a) Disney re-doing its animation library as live-action films, or (b) Disney doing it to one of my favorites. That said, what do you mean &quot;Beauty and the Beast&quot; was released almost a quarter of a century ago?! Yeesh. And that said, I have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/tale-as-old-as-time-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tale as Old as Time (Again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[806,805,807,903,247],"class_list":["post-49361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-beautyandthebeast","tag-belle","tag-billcondon","tag-disney","tag-emmawatson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/23\/now_it_can_be_t-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":49361,"position":0},"title":"Now it can be told shown!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Dec-04 11:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Photos of the Walt Disney World trip are available here. 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