Disney Cabinets The Princess and the Frog Sequel C...

Walt Disney Animation Studios has unexpectedly opted to cancel anticipated Disney+ sequel sequence Tiana, which might have continued the adventures of characters from The Princess and the Frog. The upsetting transfer comes as rollbacks have occurred on the studio, and it additionally comes within the wake of a shift away from variety in different tasks, together with a transgender storyline being minimize from Pixar’s Win or Lose sequence.

The Princess and the Frog sequence would have introduced again movie star Anika Noni Rose to proceed Princess Tiana’s journey as New Orleans royalty occurring new musical adventures—constructing her culinary empire as an empowered Black girl restauranteur, as seen within the 2D animated movie’s ending and on Disney Experiences’ newly opened theme park experience Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. 

Insiders near Tiana‘s manufacturing informed the Hollywood Reporter that “regardless of greatest efforts, together with a number of adjustments to the inventive workforce, Tiana finally couldn’t get to the place it wanted to be given manufacturing prices,” and that the choice was made in alignment with the Disney and Pixar’s option to cease growth on long-form episodic sequence for his or her streamer.

The sources stated the animation studio’s focus would as an alternative shift “to growing a separate short-form particular impressed by The Princess and the Frog, which is at the moment in early growth.” This mission at the moment has Joyce Sherri hooked up as director and author and Steve Anderson as co-director. It’s additionally described as being a brand new story impressed by the movie, which we hope isn’t simply revisiting occasions of the film we didn’t get to see. Tiana deserves to have her story to maneuver ahead, together with all of the magic and even greater goals in New Orleans.

The most effective-case situation is that this transfer is impressed by Moana 2′s pivot from sequence to movie which paid off handsomely for Disney Studios. Final yr’s sequel to Moana revamped $1 billion on the international field workplace and is poised to hit excessive streaming numbers as soon as it arrives on Disney+.

So whereas the information of Tiana being canceled is disheartening, maybe it indicators a step towards a feature-length launch?  We’ll be hoping on stars holding on to the hope that Tiana will get the royal therapy with a big-screen sequel our princess actually deserves.

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