disney Buys Live-Action Prince Charming Project 

Disney Buys Live-Action Prince Charming Project

Disney is continuing its push into live-action fairy tales, closing a deal for a feature project centering on Prince Charming.

Matt Fogel wrote the script, while David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films/TV as well as Tripp Vinson are on board to produce.

Disney pioneered the recent and lucrative trend of taking either old animated classics or fairy tales and spinning them into live-action features.

And since no other studio has done more to ensconce the idea of Prince Charming into the public mind — with movies such as

 — it is most appropriate the studio take a close look at the man as well.

Details are being kept behind a moat, but the script is described as a revisionist take on the fairy tales.

Mandeville's Alex Young will executive produce.

Mandeville is production on Disney’s live-action take of its 1991 classic 

Fogel was the assistant to Phil Lord and Chris Miller when the filmmaking team worked on

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