For more than a decade now, Disney has been churning out live-action remakes/re-imaginings of its classic animated movies. Peter Pan & Wendy is the latest of these offerings, arriving to Disney+ subscribers at the end of April, and fellow 2023 new movie release The Little Mermaid is next up, hitting theaters at the end of May. There are plenty more of these live-action adaptations on the way, but one we haven’t heard much about is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was announced in January 2019. Alan Menken, who composed the 1996 original with Stephen Schwartz, has explained why this particular upcoming Disney movie is taking so long to get off the ground.
Menken and Schwartz are both attached to resume their musical duties on the Hunchback of Notre Dame remake, so one would think that they would be looped in on where things stand with the project. And yet, four years after that initial announcement, Menken informed Comicbook.com that he has “no idea” about if the movie is still happening, continuing:
