A New Adaptation of Aladdin Is On The Way — And This Time, They're Going Full Horror

This is decidedly the property of caller adaptations — and we’ve got different 1 connected the horizon. A caller mentation of the Middle Eastern folktale Aladdin, titled Aladdin: The Monkey’s Paw volition statesman accumulation adjacent month. But let’s conscionable accidental it’s not precisely the 1992 Disney-fied mentation of Aladdin we cognize and love.

This caller live-action adaptation is being touted arsenic a “dark, supernatural reimagining” of the archetypal fable and is acceptable to prima Nick Sagar, Ricky Norwood, Montana Manning, and Bradley Stryker. Stryker volition besides nutrient and nonstop from a publication by Charley McDougall. Production volition instrumentality spot successful the UK, wherever the movie is set.

Deadline revealed the film’s synopsis, which reads, “A modern-day Londoner, Aladdin, inherits an past monkey’s paw believed to assistance wishes, lone to observe that each tendency comes astatine a soul-crushing price. As those astir him autumn unfortunate to its curse, helium indispensable face a increasing evil — and the demonic unit that feeds connected each privation made.”

This peculiar story, and however it could beryllium connected to horror, appears to beryllium idiosyncratic to the film’s team. “We ever wanted to research fearfulness done a idiosyncratic lens — not conscionable the scares, but the quality outgo of wishes,” the film’s writer explained successful a connection to the outlet. “This story’s been haunting america for a while, and it’s clip to fto it loose. The champion fearfulness films haunt you agelong aft the credits roll. That’s what this communicative does. It’s sharp, emotional, and afloat of dread successful each the close ways. We’re not conscionable making different fearfulness movie — we’re gathering a satellite astir a genuinely iconic concept. The paw, the mythology, the characters — it’s each there.”

Disney’s 1992 deed animated adaptation is possibly the astir well-known and beloved of each movie adaptations of the folktale, but the communicative has been translated to movie galore times implicit the years, some successful animated and live-action forms, arsenic good arsenic successful English and different languages. The 2019 live-action remake of Disney’s archetypal — starring Smile 2’s Naomi Scott, if you didn’t already cognize — is the astir caller effort to bring the fable into modern times.

No merchandise day for this fearfulness twist connected a classic, but we're excessively funny not to beryllium determination erstwhile it drops.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.