Guillermo del Toro’s Beauty and the Beast has landed at Warner Bros. and, according to an update at Variety, del Toro is now planning to direct as well as produce with Andrew Davies (The Three Musketeers, Bridget Jones’ Diary) providing the screenplay. They’ve also confirmed ComingSoon.net’s earlier report that Emma Watson (the Harry Potter films) is likely to headline. Del Toro’s next film, Pacific Rim is now in production with a cast that includes Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Willem Dafoe, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr., Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman. Details on the Beauty and the Beast project are still currently few, but del Toro will provide a treatment that Davies will work from and this version of the story will be a period piece. Read more: Guillermo Del Toro to Direct Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast.
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Guillermo del Toro will direct “Beauty and the Beast,” a new take on the classic tale that Warner Bros. has tapped “Bridget Jones’s Diary” scribe Andrew Davies to write. WB’s “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson is in final negotiations to topline the period pic that del Toro had originally only been onboard to produce. DiNovi Pictures’ Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan will produce with del Toro, who plans to write a treatment off of which Davies will work. Del Toro, who’s currently filming “Pacific Rim” for WB and Legendary Pictures, is credited as a co-writer on both of WB’s upcoming “Hobbit” movies. He recently exec produced Universal’s “Mama” and DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians.” Having wrapped her long-running role as Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” pics, Watson will next reteam with “Deathly Hallows” director David Yates. She currently co-stars in “My Week With Marilyn” and will soon be seen in Summit’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Davies, who wrote “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and its 2004 sequel, most recently penned “The Three Musketeers” and “Brideshead Revisited.” WME reps both del Toro and Watson, who are also respectively repped by Exile Entertainment and U.K.-based Markham, Froggatt and Irwin. Davies is repped by CAA.
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