Chinese official trailer
<b>Although the</b> pre-screening was not optimistic, the Disney live-action film "Aladdin" starring Will Smith grossed $1.05 billion worldwide last year and made a lot of money.
According to foreign media "Variety", Disney has found "King Kong: Skull Island" screenwriter John Jardins and "Rush out of Compton" screenwriter Andrea Belllov to write scripts for the sequel. This sequel will be in theaters, not Disney+ streaming works.
In terms of animation, Disney released two sequels in 1994 and 1995, "The Revenge of Jafon" and "Aladdin and the King of Thieves", directly released videotapes. Foreign media said that the live-action sequel and the two animated sequels are not directly related, and it is an original story.
2 sequels to the cartoon Aladdin
Earlier producer Dan Lin said: "The audience response deeply touched us, we feel that these characters will have more adventure stories", Lin also said that if the sequel is made, they very much hope that director Guy Rich will return, "We want Cover and the whole team to come back, if we want to make the next Aladdin movie, we are very willing to let him continue to take the helm." 」 ”
In addition to the movie sequel, Prince Anders, who proposed to Princess Jasmine in the live-action version of Aladdin, has his own spin-off movie. Billy Magnussen returns to play the role. It is reported that the spin-off will be scripted by Jordan Dunn and Michael Kvamme, and the film is scheduled to be launched on Disney streaming Disney+.
Mena Massoud, the male protagonist of the Eight Classics, complained last year that he was coldly treated after acting in "Aladdin" and "could not even get an audition opportunity". If there were no surprises, he would have made a sequel to Aladdin without an audition.