A new Beauty and the Beast movie!

After nearly seventy years, my favorite story of all time is finally getting the proper live action treatment it deserves, and it's a French film to boot.  Being written and directed by Christophe Gans, who's most known for Brotherhood of the Wolf and Silent Hill, his main inspiration for this film is Hayao Miyazaki of all people (one of my favorite animators).  Gans is a film maker known for horror films and he's doing a family movie, but then I guess stranger things have happened.  It stars Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Ocean's Twelve) as La bête, and Lea Seydoux (Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Inglorious Basterds) as La belle.

If anything, this movie will have atmosphere so thick you could cut it, and be absolutely gorgeous.  So yeah, I'm pretty excited about it.  It's currently in post production and will be coming out next year.  Here are some picks.

It does look visually inspiring!