In a present day idyllic kingdom, the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s iconic Beauty and the Beast) is poised to take the throne. His first proclamation: offer a chance at redemption to the trouble-making offspring of Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar who have been imprisoned on a forbidden island with all the other villains, sidekicks, evil step-mothers and step-sisters. These villainous descendants (Carlos, Mal, Evvie and Jay, respectively) are allowed into the kingdom to attend prep school alongside the offspring of iconic Disney heroes including Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Mulan. However, the evil teens face a dilemma. Should they follow in their nefarious parents’ footsteps and help all the villains regain power or embrace their innate goodness and save the kingdom?
Kenny Ortega, the Emmy Award-winning director and choreographer of Disney’s record-setting High School Musical TV movies and feature film, returns to Disney Channel to direct Descendants.
Casting is underway for Disney’s Descendants, a contemporary live-action adventure-comedy that taps into Disney’s heritage characters—notably its most evil villains–to introduce their progeny, a modern day generation of teenagers who ultimately question the evil that’s always been in their hearts. Disney’s Descendants is scheduled to begin production next spring for a 2015 premiere on Disney Channel. The casting directors are Natalie Hart and Jason La Padura, C.S.A. (High School Musical TV movies and film, Camp Rock)
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Okay, I'm in. It sounds interesting and I'm excited for it. I love most DCOMs.
ReplyDeleteThis... This could go either very right or very, VERY WRONG.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I take that back. For some reason I thought it was going to be animated. But nooo. So no, I don't see it being anything other than BAD.
ReplyDeleteSounds crazy... looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteSo basically someone at Disney was chilling and reading Marvel's Runaways series and decides "HEY let's do something only marginally different to that!"
ReplyDeleteI would have watched it if it was animated.
ReplyDeleteAh, I kinda wanted it to be a cartoon...
ReplyDeletebut it seems like a solid plot, so I'll definitely watch!
I agree, I got so excited when I read the plot. And then all my bubbles were bursted when I read it was live-action.
ReplyDeleteI'll still watch it, tho :P
It sure has potential.
ReplyDeleteLive-action still could be interesting... especially if a bunch of it is cgi.
ReplyDeleteSo a Fairy Tail version of the Percy Jackson series. I'll check it out. the Main Descendent Son of Beast and Belle fit he is half beast also. other wise with what power will he control all these other kids who's mothers got magic powers and what not. And if someone says it they don't have to have magic in the movie, then I say what the fear of them then, they just humans like all of us is we doing something crazy that they can make a movie out of us.?
ReplyDeleteExactly what I was thinking
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