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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.