Disney announces Jack and the Beanstalk animated film big

Very big is being directed by Nathan Greno, who previously helmed Tangled, a charming and wonderfully smart take on the classic Rapunzel fairy tale.

It’s “not what you’ve seen before with a big dumb giants walking around”, Disney explained, but instead the world is inhabited with various cultures of giants, including the film’s antagonistic element, the Storm Giants.

Greno said that he hoped Disney’s version of Jack and the Beanstalk would become the canonical version of the fairy tale – which in all honestly, shouldn’t be that hard.

Oh and it’s a musical….a musical with songs written by Bobby Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez, the writers and composers of Frozen.

Lasseter didn’t reveal much else about the upcoming animated project, but given the “definitive” description, it’s safe to say that Disney’s laying down the gauntlet with this whole Jack and the Beanstalk thing. “When Ima meets Jack, she thinks he’s a toy!” Set in Spain during the age of discovery, the film follow Jack as he befriends a female giant in the new remake.

Kristen Anderson-Lopez sang on stage at the movie announcement.

Huge is set to hit theaters in 2018.

DOWN TO EARTH – Adventure-seeker Jack discovers a world of giants hidden within the clouds, hatching a grand plan with Inma, a 60-foot-tall, 11-year-old girl. Greno said the feisty character was inspired by an actual young girl they met while visiting Spain, who tossed a soccer ball over their heads, raced their rental vehicle, and declared that “she was the princess of her people”.