Chris Hemsworth Might Star in Disney’s Prince Charming Film

Deadline reviews Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in Prince Charming, a brand new challenge at Disney from Paddington and Wonka director Paul King.

Prince Charming relies on a script co-written by King with Simon Farnaby and Jon Croker; the precise nature and particulars of the story are presently below wraps, however except it reveals itself to be a easy rom-com using the title like The Good Man or The Concept of You, the story seemingly issues some variation of the inventory character seen in Snow White, Sleeping Magnificence, Rapunzel, and different Disney fairy tales. Because the outlet notes, “insiders do add that the movie is not going to particularly be linked to Cinderella,” and so will seemingly not be a retelling of the Disney film from the angle of its royal shoe-obsessed love curiosity.  

Leisure insider Jeff Sneider broke information of the challenge and Hemsworth’s involvement in his newsletter final week, so the Deadline report is additional affirmation that this film is actual and transferring ahead. Which begs the query: if it’s not particularly about Cinderella’s himbo, what’s it about? And why is Disney ?

Maybe Prince Charming actually will be some kind of essay on the inventory character, in the same vein to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, with Hemsworth as some kind of bumbling incarnation of the trope—just like Ryan Gosling’s evergreen portrayal of Ken. Maybe it’ll be a kind of trendy retelling of The Stepford Husbands, the 1996 made-for-TV sequel to The Stepford Wives with Mr. Hemsworth standing in for Michael Ontkean. How are excellent storybook males made, and for what objective? Will Hemsworth’s Charming change into self-aware and lead a revolution of his colleagues as they query why they’re cursed to play second fiddle to their princess counterparts? We’ll discover out quickly sufficient.

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