List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

Walt Disney Pictures produce the films listed here.

This is a list of live-action or photorealistic remakes produced by Walt Disney Pictures of its animated films. The list also includes the films' sequels and spin-offs within their fictional universe. This list does not include: remakes or legacy sequels of live-action/animation hybrid films (such as Pete's Dragon and Mary Poppins Returns), the made-for-television film Geppetto, the direct-to-video film The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, animated films that were produced by another studio and later adapted as live-action films by Disney, live-action films made by another studio based on the same story as the Disney films, or live-action films based on animated television shows (whether based on Disney shows such as Kim Possible or Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, or on animated shows from third-party studios such as Inspector Gadget or Underdog).

Upcoming/In development

List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

<table><thead><tr><th>Film</th><th>Original film</th><th>Release date</th><th>Director(s)</th><th>Screenwriter(s)</th><th>Producer(s)</th><th>Composer(s)</th><th>Co-production with</th><th>Production status</th><th>Ref.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Moana</td><td>Moana (2016)</td><td>July 10, 2026</td><td>Thomas Kail</td><td>Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller</td><td>Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Beau Flynn and Lin-Manuel Miranda</td><td>Mark MancinaR (score)Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foaʻi and Lin-Manuel MirandaR (songs)</td><td>Seven Bucks Productions and Flynn Picture Co.</td><td>Post-production</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lilo & Stitch 2</td><td>Lilo & Stitch (2002)</td><td>May 26, 2028</td><td>TBA</td><td>Chris Sanders</td><td>Jonathan Eirich</td><td>TBA</td><td>Rideback</td><td>In development</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tangled</td><td>Tangled (2010)</td><td>TBA</td><td>Michael Gracey</td><td>Jennifer Kaytin Robinson</td><td>Kristin Burr and Lucy Kitada</td><td>Burr! Productions</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hercules</td><td>Hercules (1997)</td><td>Guy Ritchie</td><td>TBA</td><td>Anthony and Joe Russo</td><td>AGBO</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Untitled Gaston-centered film</td><td>Beauty and the Beast (1991)</td><td>Dave Callaham</td><td>Michelle Rejwan</td><td>TBA</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cruella sequel</td><td>One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)</td><td>Craig Gillespie</td><td>Dana Fox Tony McNamara</td><td>Andrew Gunn Marc Platt Kristin Burr</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Third Maleficent film</td><td>Sleeping Beauty (1959)</td><td>TBA</td><td>Linda Woolverton</td><td>TBA</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

• An O indicates the songwriter only wrote songs for its original version that were featured in the remake • An N indicates the songwriter only wrote songs for its remake • An R indicates the songwriter/composer worked on both the original version and its remake

Scrapped and stalled projects

List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

A prequel to Aladdin titled Genies, written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon and produced by Tripp Vinson, was announced in 2015. A spin-off film of Aladdin, focused on Prince Anders, was announced for Disney+ in December 2019, with Billy Magnussen reprising his role. After some time without any news updates, Magnussen stated that the project was still in development in April 2021, which he reconfirmed in the following year.

A live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone entered development in July 2015, with Bryan Cogman writing the script and Brigham Taylor serving as producer. In January 2018, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was announced as director. The next month, it was revealed that the film would premiere exclusively on Disney+. Enrique Chediak joined to serve as the cinematographer in September, while Eugenio Caballero joined to serve as the production designer in December. However, in March 2024, Fresnadillo revealed that the project was scrapped.

In 2016, Walt Disney Pictures re-acquired the film rights to The Chronicles of Prydain, on which the animated film The Black Cauldron was based, with the intention to adapt the novel series into a live-action film series. The project was in early development at Walt Disney Studios with no director, producer, or screenwriter attached yet. Since then, there has been no news about the project.

In March 2016, Disney announced a new film in development titled Rose Red, the live-action spin-off to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was to be told from the perspective of Snow White's sister, Rose Red. The film was to be produced by Vinson and pitched by Justin Merz, based on the script by Evan Daugherty. An additional live-action movie based on Prince Charming (of Cinderella and other fairy tales), entitled Charming, entered development in 2017 with Stephen Chbosky as writer and director.

In 2019, Alan Menken suggested that the film Pocahontas would not have a live-action remake in the near future, since remaking it would likely be impossible due to modern sensibilities. In 2023, Menken further suggested that a planned live-action remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame titled simply Hunchback, which was announced in January 2019 to be written by David Henry Hwang, produced by Josh Gad, David Hoberman, and Todd Lieberman (through Mandeville Films), and based on elements from both the animated film and Victor Hugo's novel, was stalled for similar reasons.

A photorealistic computer animated remake of Robin Hood entered development in early 2020, with Kari Granlund writing the screenplay, Justin Springer producing, and Carlos López Estrada as the director. In March 2026, Estrada confirmed that Disney canceled the project.

In January 2020, a photorealistic computer animated remake of Bambi was announced to be in development with a script co-written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Anderson Beer. Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, and Andrew Miano would produce the film; a joint-venture production between Walt Disney Pictures, Depth of Field Studios, and Known Universe Productions. In June 2023, it was revealed that Sarah Polley was in talks to direct the film, which was said to be a musical that would feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster had written the most recent draft of the script. However, in March 2024, Polley was no longer attached as director, with the project remaining stalled.

In January 2022, it was announced that a live-action remake of The Aristocats was in development with Will Gluck producing under his Olive Bridge Entertainment banner and Keith Bunin writing the script with Gluck. Questlove was attached to direct the film in March 2023. In August 2025, Questlove revealed that Disney was no longer moving forward with the film.

Reception

Box office performance

Many Disney remakes rank along the highest grossing films upon their release, currently, The Lion King (11th), Beauty and the Beast (25th), Aladdin (46th), and Lilo & Stitch (57th) are on the list. The Lion King is also the highest-grossing musical film of all time. It also set the record for the largest opening for an animated film and the musical before The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Frozen II surpassed the records respectively.

Critical and public response

<table><thead><tr><th>Film</th><th>Rotten Tomatoes</th><th>Metacritic</th><th>CinemaScore</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>The Jungle Book (1994)</td><td>80%</td><td>63</td><td>A−</td></tr><tr><td>101 Dalmatians</td><td>39%</td><td>50</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>102 Dalmatians</td><td>30%</td><td>35</td><td>B+</td></tr><tr><td>Alice in Wonderland</td><td>50%</td><td>53</td><td>A−</td></tr><tr><td>The Sorcerer's Apprentice</td><td>40%</td><td>46</td><td>B−</td></tr><tr><td>Maleficent</td><td>54%</td><td>56</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Cinderella</td><td>84%</td><td>67</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>The Jungle Book (2016)</td><td>94%</td><td>77</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Alice Through the Looking Glass</td><td>29%</td><td>34</td><td>A−</td></tr><tr><td>Beauty and the Beast</td><td>71%</td><td>65</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Christopher Robin</td><td>73%</td><td>60</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Dumbo</td><td>46%</td><td>51</td><td>A−</td></tr><tr><td>Aladdin</td><td>57%</td><td>53</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>The Lion King</td><td>51%</td><td>55</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Maleficent: Mistress of Evil</td><td>40%</td><td>43</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Lady and the Tramp</td><td>67%</td><td>48</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Mulan</td><td>71%</td><td>66</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Cruella</td><td>75%</td><td>59</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Pinocchio</td><td>27%</td><td>38</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Peter Pan & Wendy</td><td>65%</td><td>61</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>The Little Mermaid</td><td>67%</td><td>59</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Mufasa: The Lion King</td><td>57%</td><td>56</td><td>A−</td></tr><tr><td>Snow White</td><td>39%</td><td>50</td><td>B+</td></tr><tr><td>Lilo & Stitch</td><td>72%</td><td>53</td><td>A</td></tr></tbody></table>

Academy Award wins and nominations

List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

<table><thead><tr><th>Film</th><th>Ceremony</th><th>Category</th><th>Recipient</th><th>Result</th><th>Ref.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>102 Dalmatians</td><td>73rd Academy Awards</td><td>Costume Design</td><td>Anthony Powell</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Alice in Wonderland</td><td>83rd Academy Awards</td><td>Art Direction</td><td>Robert Stromberg and Karen O'Hara</td><td>Won</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Costume Design</td><td>Colleen Atwood</td><td>Won</td></tr><tr><td>Visual Effects</td><td>Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas, and Sean Phillips</td><td>Nominated</td></tr><tr><td>Maleficent</td><td>87th Academy Awards</td><td>Costume Design</td><td>Anna B. Sheppard</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cinderella</td><td>88th Academy Awards</td><td>Sandy Powell</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Jungle Book</td><td>89th Academy Awards</td><td>Visual Effects</td><td>Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, and Adam Valdez</td><td>Won</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Beauty and the Beast</td><td>90th Academy Awards</td><td>Costume Design</td><td>Jacqueline Durran</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Production Design</td><td>Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer</td><td>Nominated</td></tr><tr><td>Christopher Robin</td><td>91st Academy Awards</td><td>Visual Effects</td><td>Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones, and Chris Corbould</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Lion King</td><td>92nd Academy Awards</td><td>Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Elliot Newman</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Maleficent: Mistress of Evil</td><td>Makeup and Hairstyling</td><td>Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten, and David White</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mulan</td><td>93rd Academy Awards</td><td>Costume Design</td><td>Bina Daigeler</td><td>Nominated</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Visual Effects</td><td>Sean Andrew Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, and Steve Ingram</td><td>Nominated</td></tr><tr><td>Cruella</td><td>94th Academy Awards</td><td>Costume Design</td><td>Jenny Beavan</td><td>Won</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Makeup and Hairstyling</td><td>Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne, and Julia Vernon</td><td>Nominated</td></tr></tbody></table>

Returning cast and crew

List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films

In certain cases, the surviving cast and crew who worked on the original films may return for the remake. Of note, Dwayne Johnson will not only reprise his role as Maui in Moana (2016), but will also produce the live-action remake under his production company Seven Bucks Productions. Alan Menken returned to the role of composer and songwriter three times. Disney's live-action remakes form part of the long-running effort to revisit its animated film catalogue for new audiences. According to Reuters, the studio has produced a steady stream of live-action remakes spanning several decades, ranging from earlier releases such as 101 Dalmatians (1996) to later films including Cinderella (2015), Beauty and the Beast (2017), The Lion King (2019), and The Little Mermaid (2023). The 2025 live-action remake of Snow White continues this pattern, reflecting the ongoing prominence of animated-to-live-action remakes within Disney's film output. In some live-action remakes of Disney's animated films, individuals associated with the original productions have returned to participate in new roles and various capacities. For example, in the 2025 live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and co-directed the original 2002 animated film and voiced Stitch in that version, returned to voice the character in the remake, and original cast member Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani, appears in a new role. Other live-action remakes have similarly drawn on talent associated with earlier versions of the stories. While not all original cast members have returned, these participations illustrate how some remakes maintain connections with their animated predecessors through returning voices or creative contributions.

<table><thead><tr><th>Cast/crew</th><th>Role in original film</th><th>Original film</th><th>Remake</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Alan Menken</td><td>Original songs and scores</td><td>Aladdin</td><td>Aladdin</td></tr><tr><td>Beauty and the Beast</td><td>Beauty and the Beast</td></tr><tr><td>The Little Mermaid</td><td>The Little Mermaid</td></tr><tr><td>Frank Welker</td><td>Voice actor of Abu, Rajah, and the Cave of Wonders</td><td>Aladdin</td><td>Aladdin</td></tr><tr><td>Jim Cummings</td><td>Voice actor of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger</td><td>The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh</td><td>Christopher Robin</td></tr><tr><td>Dwayne Johnson</td><td>Voice actor of Maui</td><td>Moana</td><td>Moana</td></tr><tr><td>James Earl Jones</td><td>Voice actor of Mufasa</td><td>The Lion King</td><td>The Lion King</td></tr><tr><td>Hans Zimmer Tim Rice Elton John</td><td>Original songs and scores</td></tr><tr><td>Chris Sanders</td><td>Voice actor of Stitch</td><td>Lilo & Stitch</td><td>Lilo & Stitch</td></tr></tbody></table>