Disney Confirms ‘Tangled’ TV Series – Long Haired Princess Will Her Own Animated Series With Original Cast
Rapunzel is coming to the TV screen, confirmed Disney. The Long-haired princess will make her small-screen debut in a Tangled TV series in two years.
Tangled will be an animated series based on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2010 film of the same name, Disney announced yesterday. Disney has managed to get the original cast that lent their voices to the characters on board for the endeavor. Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi will reprise their original roles as Rapunzel and Eugene (a.k.a. Flynn Rider), respectively.
The animation studio hasn’t revealed if the other actors who lent their voices have been approached. But, Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater have confirmed their allegiance to the project. Disney’s Tangled, released in 2010, was a great success. The story was loosely based on “Rapunzel,” the tale of a rather ordinary girl born to a lowly couple. In the original version, Rapunzel was agreed as a ransom for the delectable fruit which her birth-mother craves.
However, as with every Disney animation movie, the plot was cleaned and glamour touches added that obscured the rather meager and humble beginnings of Rapunzel. In Disney’s Tangled, indicating the tough time anyone would have managing the long-hair, Rapunzel is a baby princess who is stolen from the castle by a witch.
Disney’s animation movies have been garnering a rising fan base and ever higher revenues. Hence it isn’t surprising, it is trying to bring back popular movies and stories that made a huge splash back in the day. Fortunately, the TV series though based on the movie and the start of the 2012 short film, “Tangled Ever After” will have Rapunzel as a grown adult that has to figure out life in her new kingdom as she learns to live with her parents and the people of Corona. Fortunately, she will her faithful companions from the movie helping her out, mentions the description offered by Disney,
“There’s Eugene (of course); the “plucky” chameleon sidekick, Pascal; the “no-nonsense” horse, Maximus; the Snuggly Duckling Pub Thugs; and a new addition, “tough-as-nails handmaiden” Cassandra.
Her irrepressible spirit and natural curiosity about the world drives [Rapunzel] to the realization that there is so much more she needs to learn before she can truly accept her royal destiny. She boldly puts her crown and impending marriage on hold to seek out epic adventures, much to the dismay of the King who, after missing out on Rapunzel’s youth, must accept that his daughter is now an independent young woman.”
The plucky, but sometimes unsure Rapunzel in Tangled, was an interesting take from Disney. Colorful characters with fascinating and many-a-times sketchy backgrounds, should provide ample fodder for the Tangled TV series.
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