CATDOLL: Disney is addicted to remakes and is going to make a live-action movie of "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Recently, Disney announced that it will cooperate with Vince Gilligan, the producer of "Breaking Bad", to bring the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" to the big screen again. Vince Gilligan has won the Emmy Award for Best Producer twice. In addition to producing the "Breaking Bad" spin-off "Better Call Saul", he also wants to be a behind-the-scenes promoter in the film field. "Jack and the Beanstalk", adapted from a fairy tale, is one of the projects. Thomas Schnauz, one of the directors and screenwriters of "Breaking Bad", is already writing the script to write a new idea for this ancient European fairy tale. Vince Gilligan will serve as the producer of "Jack and the Beanstalk" together with Mark Johnson, his colleague from "Better Call Saul".

"Jack and the Beanstalk" originated in Europe. The farm boy Jack sold his family's only property, a cow, and exchanged it with an old man for five peas that were said to have magic powers. Overnight, the peas sprouted and grew into towering beanstalks. Jack followed the beanstalks to another world and found a giant and his castle. Jack rescued the little golden goddess who could play the harp and stole the giant's goose that laid golden eggs. As a result, he was chased by the giant, so Jack cut off the beanstalk and killed the giant. From then on, he lived a happy life with his mother.

Jack and the Beanstalk has been made into movies many times. Disney first made this fairy tale into an animated short in 1947, starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. It is also one of the four stories in Disney's 2014 Into the Woods. In recent years, there is the 2001 fantasy film Jack and the Beanstalk starring Matthew Modine, and the 2010 adventure comedy Jack and the Beanstalk starring Chloë Grace Moretz. In 2013, Jack the Giant Slayer, directed by Bryan Singer, the director of X-Men, and starring Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor, was also partly based on this story, but the film was a failure, with a domestic box office of only $65 million from a $195 million investment.