EXCLUSIVE: Disney is taking a fresh look at the live-action take on Tangled , we hear, which is resuming early development with Scarlett Johansson circling the role of Mother Gothel. The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey is still attached to direct, working from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson based on the 2010 animated feature.

Disney hit pause on the project in April after getting jitters from the box office performance from its live-action take of Snow White . However, there’s a big difference in regards to the audience appeal for old Disney animated pics getting a live-action take, versus those titles since the 1989 Little Mermaid musical renaissance. Those live-action redos — e.g., Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo & Stitch — have h

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