The march to make every Disney animated film into a live-action movie continues. Next on the studio’s list? Aladdin, which is receiving the Maleficent treatment with a prequel that looks to tell the Genie's story called, to almost no one’s surprise, **Genies{
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has Damien Shannon and Mark Swift in the early stages of writing a film that shows how the Genie – famously voiced in the 1992 ‘toon by Robin Williams – got into the lamp in the first place.
We’re promised a voyage into the realm of the magical beings and an explanation for the character’s circumstances, which given that he ends up enslaved and squished into a lamp, probably aren’t all that great to begin with. And, per the trade paper, if Genies works, it’ll be the prelude to an Aladdin live-action film, though trying to recapture that particular magic seems like a much riskier proposition.
This is just the latest in the Mouse House’s attempts to re-engineer all of its animated fare into updated interpretations including relatively straightforward efforts such as Cinderella and the upcoming **Beauty And The Beast **and films that want to explore a different aspect of the story, including Maleficent and the recently-revealed** Prince Charming, which will apparently look at the character’s less fortunate brother.