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Disney will be hoping the film does better than recent Hollywood efforts based on the JM Barrie children’s classic: casting the Bigstone Cree First Nation actor Alyssa Wapanatâhk as Tiger Lily ought to help avoid the kind of controversy attracted by Joe Wright’s 2014 film Pan, which unwisely made the decision to cast white actor Rooney Mara as the Native American princess.

We also got a world-first look at the forthcoming Peter Pan and Wendy, which will star Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson as the title characters, with Jude Law as Captain Hook. Sequel Disenchanted will be out in November via Disney + and also brings back Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Idina Menzel, this time to take on Maya Rudolph’s mean ole Malvina Monroe, who seems to be more of a neighbourhood bully than an apple-poisoning type.

Photograph: Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDbĪmy Adams turned up to remind us all how unexpectedly wonderful 2007’s Enchanted was, a perfect Disney Live action piece that played on the animation classics Snow White and Sleeping Beauty without ever plundering them for easy thrills. A couple of hours later, West Side Story Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose saw us out with a never-before-heard song from newly announced Disney Animation Studios film Wish, ‘More For Us’ (cue standing ovation).ĭisenchanted stars Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Amy Adams, Gabriella Baldacchino, Idina Menzel and James Marsden. No pesky fans asking awkward questions here (at least at the main studio panels), but plenty of super-smooth sneak peeks at movies and TV shows to come, all delivered up from the 7,000 capacity D23 hall at Anaheim Convention Centre with the sort of sparkling production and star power you’d expect from the studio that currently rules Hollywood.Īttendees for Friday afternoon’s panel for Disney and Pixar were warmed up for a packed two-hour panel with Cynthia Erivo, aka the blue fairy in the studio’s new live action take on Pinocchio, singing When You Wish Upon a Star.

If San Diego Comic-Con is a swirling maelstrom of chaotic mixed bag geekery, one minute Tom Hiddleston in full Loki costume regaling Hall H, the next Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath, Disney’s D23 is its more corporate, controlled cousin.

The walt disney company the little mermaid