Professor's Picks: Five Best Casting Choices in Disney's Live Action Remakes (and Five Ideal Recasts)
Sorry if I startled you: no, Scarlett Johansson is not up to play Cinderella in Disney's next live action remake. The basis for this piece's lead image comes from the Disney Dream Portrait series by Annie Leibovitz. This was a photo series that took various celebrities and posed them as iconic Disney characters in a promotional campaign for the Disney Parks, one of which featured Johansson stepping into the glass shoes of Cinderella. The line premiered in 2007 and concluded in 2014, right around the time when Disney took a look at this gallery and thought "Okay ... what if we did that for real ?" The last ten or so years of Disney have been more or less defined by this imperial march of live-action remakes of their animated classics. We have had at least one every year since about 2014. And unless you're one of those niche fans whose favorite Disney movie is like The Great Mouse Detective , by this point you...