Disney is continuing its latest tradition of rebooting classic animated movies in live-action. This time with the hit 1992 film Aladdin. While many people are going to find it difficult portraying classic characters from the movie, few will have a more difficult challenge than Will Smith, who is set to portray The Genie. As Genie was previously portrayed by the late, great Robin Williams, it's a going to take a lot out of Smith to keep the masses happy.
Things went off to a shoddy start when on Wednesday, Disney released the first look at Smith in his Genie garb. Shown below:
As Aladdin is a film that holds a special place in many peoples hearts and minds, people are expecting perfection of Smith, and people are not happy with this start.
Will Smith’s genie hair in the live-action #Aladdin is going to be a major source of anxiety for me in 2019. pic.twitter.com/FwG44LHiUj
— Jason Carlos (@jaarlos) December 19, 2018
This looks like Aladdin, brought to you by Party City pic.twitter.com/JBryKecq54
— Roxxy Haze (@iamroxxyhaze) December 19, 2018
Just saw Will Smith as the genie in the live action Aladdin remake. My reaction....... #Aladdin pic.twitter.com/v6irLIjRC5
— Jason Wesney (@JasonWesney) December 19, 2018
it's not too late to salvage this pic.twitter.com/wuh7b3IOMk
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 19, 2018
The internet has a tendency to overreact, Will Smith could still come out with an amazing performance and reimagine the iconic character for a whole new generation. But, we at least have to make sure Genie is blue, that's the least Disney could do.
They had one job with the genie... pic.twitter.com/YANAAtflcu
— Cameron (@Camo1023) December 19, 2018
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