Get ready to make like Gaston and “screw your courage to the sticking place,” because Disney has revealed the first-ever image of its “Beast” from the live action adaptation of the 1991 animated classic fairy tale, “Beauty and the Beast.” The look is certainly something that you don't see every day.
The cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly featured both Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) and Emma Watson (“Harry Potter” series) in full costume, replete with Belle’s diaphanous yellow ballgown and Beast’s navy frock coat with gold embroidery in the arms of Stevens transformed into his beastly character via movie magic.
In one such snap, audiences can see the live-action film’s iterations of Cogsworth (Ian McKellan), Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Lumiere (Ewan McGregor) and Babette (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a few of the beloved characters from Disney’s animated version, in a much different fashion than they’ve ever been seen before. So different, in fact, that Babette the feather duster has now been transformed into a bird, which adds an odd twist to the courtship between the candlestick and the duster. Then again, it’s a flirtation between two anthropomorphic household goods from the Baroque period, so odd doesn’t even begin to describe the amount of Disney magic this movie is going to need to bring this tale as old as time to life.
