Eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin) will write the music for the film, with Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast) producing alongside Mandeville.
Hunchback will pull details from the 1996 animated Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as Hugo’s book, but not the stage collaboration from Schwartz and Menken that debuted in Europe.
Butterfly) will be penning the live-action musical Hunchback for Disney, Deadline has confirmed.
There’s a rumor that Gad might play the lead character in Hunchback, but nothing has been confirmed for casting.