Original Aladdin screenwriter highlights some of the shadier aspects of Disney's live-action remake craze
For most of us, the release of the recent teaser for Disney’s live-action, Guy Ritchie-directed Aladdin was little more than a digital comma, a 90-second lacuna in which our brains neutrally registered the thought, “Oh, yep, that’s Aladdin,” and then moved on. But for at least one of the people partially responsible for the 1992 animated original, it was something even more frustrating than the indignity of not getting a glimpse of Will Smith as Genie, with screenwriter Terry Rossio expressing his displeasure with the teaser on Twitter.