Only a few actors can say that they’ve starred in two Disney movies by the age of 20, but Mackenzie Foy can say that and a whole lot more thanks to key roles in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, The Conjuring and The Twilight Saga. In her first starring role since 2018’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Foy returns to the screen in Disney+’s modern adaptation of Black Beauty. She plays the grieving Jo Green who, following the death of her parents, is forced to live with her uncle (Iain Glen) at Birtwick Stables. Before long, Jo forms a lasting bond with a bereaved black mustang ...
- 11/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Only a few actors can say that they’ve starred in two Disney movies by the age of 20, but Mackenzie Foy can say that and a whole lot more thanks to key roles in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, The Conjuring and The Twilight Saga. In her first starring role since 2018’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Foy returns to the screen in Disney+’s modern adaptation of Black Beauty. She plays the grieving Jo Green who, following the death of her parents, is forced to live with her uncle (Iain Glen) at Birtwick Stables. Before long, Jo forms a lasting bond with a bereaved black mustang ...
- 11/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like so many beloved children’s classics, the story of “Black Beauty” has always been run through with blunt messaging, tough traumas, and the kind of painful imagery no kid ever really shakes off. Over time, some of those more realistic impulses may be dulled down for wider consumption — the sort of thing Disney has built its animated classics around, woe to the tyke who watches “The Little Mermaid” and then seeks out its source material — but the darker elements that author Anna Sewell oriented her 1877 novel around have mostly endured through countless adaptations. And while the latest, a family-friendly drama from Disney+ and filmmaker Ashley Avis, offers
Plus, there’s Kate Winslet voicing the horse of the title, a powerful bit of casting that can’t be denied.
Sewell’s novel has been adapted many times over the years, and even Avis’ film’s apparent big twist (Beauty is a girl!
Plus, there’s Kate Winslet voicing the horse of the title, a powerful bit of casting that can’t be denied.
Sewell’s novel has been adapted many times over the years, and even Avis’ film’s apparent big twist (Beauty is a girl!
- 11/23/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The classic Anna Sewell novel Black Beauty and its adaptations have served as a bible of sorts for horse lovers worldwide. Ok, maybe that's a bit strong, but I've met a fair few horse lovers in my life that have a huge obsession with this work, so they'll most likely be jazzed by the news the franchise is getting a modern retelling.
Deadline reports a new Black Beauty film is in the works, and while it will mirror the events of the book set in 1877, it will also bring the story into the present day. The film will focus on a recently orphaned teenager named Jo Green, who goes to live with her uncle at a horse and animal sanctuary on Long Island. Jo Green will bond with Black Beauty, who has a somewhat similar incident happen when she is separated from her parents out West.
It's not the gritty retelling I had hoped for,...
Deadline reports a new Black Beauty film is in the works, and while it will mirror the events of the book set in 1877, it will also bring the story into the present day. The film will focus on a recently orphaned teenager named Jo Green, who goes to live with her uncle at a horse and animal sanctuary on Long Island. Jo Green will bond with Black Beauty, who has a somewhat similar incident happen when she is separated from her parents out West.
It's not the gritty retelling I had hoped for,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
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