Mark Gordon is producing the live-action The Nutcracker and the Four Realms project, with Lindy Goldstein executive producing.
According to Variety, renowned American Ballet Theatre dancer Misty Copeland has landed the lead ballerina role for the dance sequences in Walt Disney Pictures‘ new live-action version of “The Nutcracker.”
Lasse Hallstrom (The Hundred-Foot Journey, The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) is onboard to direct the revisionist take under the title The Nutcracker and the Four Realms from a script by Ashleigh Powell.
More recent live-action attempts have met with box office failure, including George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker in 1993 featuring Macaulay Culkin, and 2009’s $90 million dud Nutcracker in 3D starring Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane and John Turturro.