(?) Disney's Aida Movie w/ Beyonce and Christina Aguilera

Remember a while back when Disney was planning to produce a major live-action motion picture adaptation of Aida with Beyoncé Knowles as Aida and Christina Aguilera as Amneris? What does everybody think of Disney producing this in the next few years? What's the likelihood that this would happen?

In my opinion, I don't think this would happen as I don't feel that Aida is really a thing right now. But, I do see this project being revived since all three leads could be $$$ makers. Plus, I think Disney would be more interested to bring up the idea again if Into the Woods does well.

DISCUSS AWAY!

Updated On: 4/5/13 at 06:52 PM

^ That comment just made me die laughing. Disney's "Black & White".
Disney's "It Doesn't Matter If You're Black or White". Disney's "Slaves".

I remember discussing this project on the board ages ago. Obviously, it's never going to happen, or any time soon anyway (I never thought LES MIS would actually get made). After seeing Aguilera in BURLESQUE, it's pretty funny that any of us entertained the idea of her as Amneris. Beyonce can't act so she'd be a terrible lead but at least she has some presence. I'd love to see an animated feature as well, the ending might be a little too dark for children though. Disney and Pixar do dark but I can't think of an instance where they didn't have a happy ending (in terms of their recent batch of films).

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I don't think they would change THAT much- maybe just really push the "reincarnation miracle" element more than the musical does, and show some magical scene after the burial where they embrace and turn into lights, lights that travel across space and time until they meet the "modern lovers" in the museum, in front of the Tomb of Aida.

I think Bey is just a tad too old to be playing a 16-ish year old Nubian princess. Though if she voiced her in an animated movie, I'd be totally okay with that.

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What, you don't think Burlesque is landing Christina movie offers left and right?

I totally forgot about the reincarnation aspect, ha! I can definitely see that ending working on film. I'm with you, AEA, as an animated sequence it sounds like it could be great but it sounds super cheesy in terms of a live action ending. Maybe it could work. Oh, and I thought Disney was pretending JOHN CARTER never happened.
Aguilera might be getting lots of film offers after BURLESQUE, just nothing Disney would be comfortable with kids watching

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Tell you what: you want your commercially-friendly voice cast?

Aida: Beyonce Knowles
Radames: Darren Criss
Amneris: Lady Gaga
Mereb: Bruno Mars
Zoser: Sir Elton John
Pharaoh: Keith David

No thank you to Beyonce voicing the character. She's a meh actress and I don't want to hear her tackling the score.

Well, actually: In the 90s, Aida WAS going to be animated feature, but it was scrapped.

"These Aida designs have been surfacing around as development art for a scraped Disney Feature production of Aida but it aint so. This was nothing more than a class assignment given out by Frank Terry when I was at Cal Arts back in 1996. (A couple of the characters were redrawn a few years later but the basic designs remained the same.) Frank brought in a newspaper clipping that Disney and Elton John were going to do an animated musical of Aida and our assignment was to create a line up of the main characters and give them all Disney style sidekicks. We then had the great Chen-Yi Chang come to evaluate the work which was pretty cool. In any case I posted them on my on-line portfolio and somehow they were mistaken for actual Disney development art."
http://benbalistreri.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

LOL @ Beyonce being a much better actress than Jennifer Hudson. Yeah, she excels at playing singers in every movie. And who can forget that masterpiece "Obsessed."