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94.Aladdin

Director

Guy Ritchie

Cast

Mena Massoud, Will Smith,

Naomi Scott

Release date

24 M ay 2019

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The rules
Your wish can’t kill anybody, so don’t ask.
Your wish can’t make anybody fall in love with
anybody else.
Your wish can’t bring people back from the dead.
It’s not a pretty picture...
WISH
NUMBER
ONE:
No Guy Ritchie grit
We get that grit has
become a part of Guy
Ritchie’s identity, but
we really don’t need
it in Aladdin.
WISH
NUMBER
TWO:
Big musical numbers
If it doesn’t go the whole
hog with swans, jewels
and dance troupes for
‘Prince Ali’, we’re
walking.
WISH
NUMBER
THREE:
No autotune
Emma Watson was a
wonderful Belle but
hearing the autotune
sort of takes you out
of the magic.

95. Pinocchio
    Released: TBA
    Director: Paul King
    Cast: TBA

We feel that a live-action remake of

Pinocchio could go one of two ways: it

could be a beautiful tale of family, love

and imagination, or it could end up being

the most disturbing family fi lm you have

ever seen. Think about it... the jackass

transformation acted out in real life?! The

original still creeps us out a bit. Luckily, Paul

King, the director behind Paddington, in on

board to helm the movie, so we imagine the

former option will very likely win out.

96. How To Train
    Your Dragon: The
    Hidden World
    Released: 1 February 2019
    Director: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
    Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig
    Ferguson, America Ferrera

If you can’t get enough/are sick of

Toothless, expect to see a whole lot more

adorable dragon paraphernalia going around

come the release of The Hidden World. In

the fi nal fi lm of the franchise, Toothless and

Hiccup go on a journey and discover a new

community of fascinating winged beasts

that was only thought to be a myth. In the

real world, it will be the fi rst DreamWorks

Animation to be distributed by Universal

after Comcast, bought it for $3.8 billion.

97. The Secret
    Commonwealth
    Author: Philip Pullman
    Publisher: Penguin
    Release date: TBC

At the time of writing, the second book in

Pu l l ma n’s Book Of Dust trilogy has yet to

set a release date, disappointing those who’d

been hoping it would be out within a year of

La Belle Sauvage. What we do know is that

it’ll be a big time jump from Lyra’s infant

adventures, fi nding her as a 20 year-old

student travelling to the Far East.