Despite lackluster reviews, the 2017 film grossed over $1.2 billion at the box office, making it the second most lucrative film released that year (just behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi). That Disney would want to expand further on its live-action remake isn’t exactly a surprise.
More importantly, though, the live-action remake came under criticism for promising - and then largely failing to deliver - a version of LeFou that was “explicitly gay.” Whether the prequel series will do a better job at this representation is still unclear. The live-action Beauty and the Beast film already attempted to expand on the characters of Gaston and LeFou, adding in a backstory that saw the two fight together in the French army, with the implication that Gaston may have some form of PTSD. There are 1.2 billion reasons why Disney would want to make a prequelĪccording to The Hollywood Reporter, just Gad and Evans are set to return for now, although there is apparently a possibility that other characters - like Emma Watson’s Belle or Dan Stevens’ Beast - could make guest appearances.
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