>Billy Magnussen is joining Disney's live-action Aladdin as Prince Anders.
>The Guy Ritchie-directed movie based on the 1992 animated pic will star relative newcomer Mena Massoud as the street rat turned prince. Power Rangers actress Naomi Scott will play Princess Jasmine, with Marwan Kenzari (Murder on the Orient Express) portraying the villain Jafar and Will Smith playing Genie.
>Magnussen will take on the new role created for the movie musical, with all other character details remaining buried in the Cave of Wonders. He joins Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad, who is set to play the original character Mara, a handmaiden and friend to Jasmine.
DISNEY NO!
Lincoln Moore
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Jacob Gonzalez
>Genie
>Will Smith
>Jasmine
>Naomi Scott
Literally blackwashing Arabic characters, unless the genie was a former slave
Jason Barnes
Naomi Scott isn't black
Charles Barnes
Walt Disney was a known Nazi sympathizer and he's not impressed with the recent Jewery, so his ghost is haunting the studio and ethnically cleansing the entertainment industry as we know it at the moment.
Nicholas Reyes
Wrong, the upcoming movies are basically BLACKED
Lucas Richardson
He's going to play the evil white cismale scumbag prince Jasmine is betrothed to. Just you wait and see.
Evan Jenkins
And they will do poorly. As per Mr. Disney's spiritual request.
Chase Rogers
We wuz Sultans and Sheikh
Cooper Green
Fun fact: The characters in Aladdin are supposed to be CHINESE!
It's an Arabic story about a far off land, China.
Bentley Gomez
You're right, I misread "Her mother, Usha Joshi, is of Indian descent and is from Uganda"