No one roasts guests at Disney World like Gaston...

The TNT original drama series The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, the follow-up season to The Alienist, is an unflinching and sinister murder mystery set at the turn-of-the-century during New York’s Gilded Age. The series follows Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), an alienist in the field of treating mental pathologies, John Moore (Luke Evans), a New York Times journalist, and Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), an ambitious woman who has opened her own private detective agency. Together, they are on the case of a kidnapped infant and on the dangerous path after an elusive killer. During …

In an interview with Variety following the Daytime Emmy win that officially turned him into an EGOT king, composer (and living legend) Alan Menken let slip the name of the new Disney+ live-action series that he’s working on with Luke Evans and Josh Gad that is set in the same universe as the $1 billion grossing Beauty and the Beast. This new musical series, which hasn’t formally begun production, comes from Gad and co-creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, is described by Menken as “a new Beauty and the Beast prequel.” And it’s got an …

Gaston is one of the wildest and funnest Disney characters of all time -- until he becomes (always was?) a horrific villain. In the original animated Beauty and the Beast, his swaggering song of accomplishments (sung by Richard White) became an instant, braggadocious classic. And in the 2017 live-action remake, Luke Evans inhabited the role and song with both swagger and a sense of pointed vulnerability (alongside his trusty Le Fou, played by Josh Gad, of course). Evans did such a good job, his Gaston is getting his own Disney+ spinoff. And Evans flexed his muscles and gave us a …

In a development I never thought I'd actually report, a Beauty and the Beast prequel series focusing on the characters of Gaston and Le Fou is currently in the works over at Disney+. The series will apparently be a live-action follow-up to the 2017 live-action remake which starred Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as the titular star-crossed lovers. [caption id="attachment_879298" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Walt Disney Studios[/caption] According to The Hollywood Reporters, Disney+ could very well become the home of a live-action Beauty and the Beast prequel series about villainous …