‘Tangled’ Casts Its Villain, and It Was Agatha All Alongside

At first, Scarlett Johansson was in the mix. However, when it got here to casting the villain of Tangled, in fact, it needed to be Agatha all alongside. Cue her music.

Multiple outlets at the moment are reporting that Kathryn Hahn, star of Marvel Studios’ reveals WandaVision and Agatha All Alongside, is in talks to play Mom Gothel within the live-action remake of Tangled. Discovering the movie’s villain was the subsequent order of enterprise after, earlier this week, Disney introduced casting for its two leads, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. They’ll be performed by relative newcomers Teagan Croft and Milo Manheim. However, in fact, Rapunzel doesn’t get caught in that tower with out the evil intentions of Gothel, so it’s a key position, and who higher than Hahn, who already has all of the witch cred on the earth due to her Marvel position?

The Tangled remake has had a little bit of a bumpy street to get so far. (Just like the Witch’s Highway, maybe? Cue another song.) In late 2024, Best Showman and Higher Man director Michael Gracey was revealed to be developing the project. However, after Disney’s Snow White was launched and failed to satisfy expectations, Tangled was put on hold. What occurred within the months that adopted? We don’t know. Six months later, though, information broke that Johansson was circling the Mom Gothel position, and the movie was again on. Johansson ended up not taking the position, however her curiosity appeared to place issues again in excessive gear. With Croft, Manheim, and now in all probability Hahn on board, it’s full steam forward.

Disney hasn’t set a launch date for Tangled, however we’d enterprise to guess the studio’s hoping to get it out possibly by summer time or fall 2027. Within the meantime, one other Disney princess is making the leap from dwell motion to animation. Moana hits theaters on July 10.

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