Aladdin just got a whole hell of a lot darker. Recently, we featured the art of comics artist Warrick Wong, who rendered the protagonists from The Incredibles in a bleak, stylised way that positioned them as the viewpoints into a dark alternate universe for the characters.
I'm still not fully sold on the live-action aspect, but if anyone has the budget to pull it off, it's surely Disney.
Animated movies are one of my favourite childhood memories, and they're the focus for this week's Off Topic. Let's narrow it down to five.
With songs like "Arabian Nights," "Friend Like Me," "Prince Ali," and "A Whole New World," it would have been very surprising if the upcoming live-action Aladdin film wasn't a musical. But just in case, the director has officially ended any doubt.
With the stage production of Aladdin set to leave Sydney for a stint in Melbourne, it seemed a good time to ask a simple question: what did the cast think was the best video game version of Aladdin?
GOG doesn't dig up quite as many retro games as it used to, but when it does, they're always worth it. The site's latest haul is three of Disney's old-school platformers -- The Lion King, Aladdin and The Jungle Book.
Now that we've gotten all of that superhero nonsense out of the way, it's time for the Infinity 2.0 figures that true Disney fans have been waiting for.
Tuesday's North American release of Disney Infinity 2.0 is all about Marvel Comics' finest, but the intro movie is totally Disney.
Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn't exactly "a whole new world" at this point. Disney Infinitycertainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0.
