Aladdin remake trailer/general - robin williams didn't die for this

[Gordon Cole]

New trailer:

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Wow. Iago is low key all over that trailer. How many establishing shots is he doing a fly by through?

 

[vertexwindi]

IGN is saying people are "coming around" to Will Smith as the Genie or whatever but nope, to me the actors still look like they come out of a porn parody.

Now I'm curious to see a musical Disney porn parody. Is that a thing?

 

[The Estatist]

Wow. Iago is low key all over that trailer. How many establishing shots is he doing a fly by through?

There's no signs that he talks. Just bounces back to my point that they should have included the vizier's son from the fairy tale to serve Iago's role as Jafar's sidekick and also be Aladdin's rival.

 

[frozenrunner]

There are parts of the new trailer I like, but most of them I like because they remind me of the original film.

They really should have just let Will Smith make the genie his own thing instead of this strange original genie/Will Smith hybrid. I wonder if they realized how uncanny and creepy the CGI turned out and that's why they let Smith physically play the character in many of the shots.

 

[Emperor Pilaf]

Am I the only one who thinks Jafar sounds rather wimpy in this remake?

 

[CWCissey]

Am I the only one who thinks Jafar sounds rather wimpy in this remake?

Far from it.

He sounds like he should be talking up the onion bhajis at the Taj Mahal Takeaway.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Not gonna lie, I got chills when they started singing A Whole New World.

This might turn out better than we all thought it would.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

It looks much better than the first trailer, but still has that feel of a TV movie and Will Smith's head on the genie just looks creepy.

 

[ObsoleteMediaFormat]

Movie looks so lifeless and fake, the actors for Aladdin and Jafar seems really awful. Will give it that A Whole New World sounded good without the awful auto found in Beauty and the Beast

 

[Someone in a Tree]

There's no signs that he talks. Just bounces back to my point that they should have included the vizier's son from the fairy tale to serve Iago's role as Jafar's sidekick and also be Aladdin's rival.

It's being reported that Alan Tudyk is voicing Iago. I wonder if they're going with the British accented Iago that was part of the original pitch for the animated one.

 

[The Estatist]

If they are, it'd mess up the two's dynamic since Brit Iago happened when Jafar was supposed to be a hotheaded overlord wannabe instead of a snide, shady, schemer.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The only good parts of this movie seem to just be Will Smith and Whole New World.

 

[Muttnik]

Jafar reminds me of the wimpy-ass Commander Zhao we got in that awful Last Airbender movie. That voice and that design just don't go at all.

 

[Chester Rigby]

This is kinda neat.

I mean, at least the man is showing respect to Robin Williams.

 

[The Nothingness]

It's being reported that Alan Tudyk is voicing Iago. I wonder if they're going with the British accented Iago that was part of the original pitch for the animated one.

If they are, it'd mess up the two's dynamic since Brit Iago happened when Jafar was supposed to be a hotheaded overlord wannabe instead of a snide, shady, schemer.

Agree. Aside from Robin Williams voicing Genie, Iago stands out thanks to Gilbert Gottfried. And apparently on his Twitter account, Gilbert is retweeting those who are upset with this reveal.
https://twitter.com/realgilbert

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

The Genie just can't work in live action (or realistic cgi meant to be live action.) He's so exaggerated in every way, he's practically a Tex Avery character. If they had designed his Genie form to look less human it might have worked.

Imagine this in live action:

 

[Dropped Burner]

The Genie was designed for Robin Williams manic energy. You can't recreate the zaniness of the character because you can't recreate Robin Williams. I don't see it working but I'm sure Will Smith will "crush internet trolls" with his performance just like Brie Larson.

 

[iRON-mAn]

This trailer was better than the rest, but admittedly I thought Will Smith worked best as the genie when he wasn't recreating scenes from the animation i.e. the 'prince' scene or the party scene.

Unfortunately, it also increased my expectations of the actual film, which may not be a good thing in the long run.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Disney released the Aladdin tie-in comic today. Jasmine gets her own short story where she.. does chemistry and talks about how much she likes books.



Fuck Belle, I guess.