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We Know Just Who Should Play Esmerelda In The Live-Action ‘Hunchback’
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Yesterday it was announced that Disney is set to recreate their 1996 animated musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame into a live-action feature. David Henry Hwang, the Tony winner behind M. Butterfly, has been picked to write the script and will pull from both the cartoon and the Victor Hugo novel it was based off—but not the stage production that did not move to Broadway. That version, which debuted at La Jolla Playhouse in 2014, was based off a 1999 Berlin production.

The stage musical was described as unusually dark compared to other Disney productions, with Variety writing, "The prevailing tone is far and away the most somber of the three Disney film-to-stage shows yet... the relentlessly cutesy 'Quasi,' bears scant relation to the afflicted figure... complete with a soaring tenor that suggests him as a potential Phantom."

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