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You ain’t never had a friend like Will Smith.
Disney released the first full trailer for the live-action remake of “Aladdin,” and yes, it has Will Smith as the genie singing “Friend Like Me.”
We also get a sneak peek at “A Whole New World” and a few other favorite moments from the original movie.
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The first thing that happens when you mix together British director Guy Ritchie with a Walt Disney film is that you get a never-before-experienced hybrid. Ritchie likes telling stories about criminals; Disney is famous for fairy tales with heroes - and heroines - and villains. Ritchie is known for keeping up a fast pace in telling his stories. Disney has always had some of the best looking visuals in the business. In “Aladdin,” the live-action re-do of Disney’s terrific 1992 animated feature,



with Guy directing and co-writing, you get all of the above. OK, the hybrid part means there have also been some changes. Ritchie’s often amiable gangsters are now a petty thief, the young man in the title role. In place of rock songs on Ritchie’s soundtracks, there’s now the music of veteran Disney composer Alan Menken. It’s hard to recall many major female characters in Ritchie’s films, but here he’s got the beautiful Princess Jasmine, who’s as strong-willed as that street thief who will, of course, end up being in a romance with her. Fans of the original film will undoubtedly either have that one memorized or will be revisiting it before seeing this one, and they’re going to be pleasantly surprised. As,


for the most part, will be Ritchie fans (except for those who thrive on his screen violence) who didn’t know he had this kind of thing in him. The story in the two films is intrinsically the same. In the Middle Eastern kingdom of Agrabah, Aladdin (Mena Massoud) and his pet monkey Abu get by via thievery - stealing food, snatching jewelry, anything it takes to survive. He believes he deserves a better life. Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott), the daughter of the aging sultan (Navid Negahban) wants more out of life than waiting for the right prince to come along and marry her. In fact, though this sort of thing is unheard of in the kingdom, she’d like to be next in line to become sultan. She, too, has a pet, the fierce tiger Rajah. Aladdin and Jasmine meet under, let’s say, false pretenses, there’s the expected attraction that happens between opposites, at least in movies, and then there’s the villain to get in the way of it all. That would be the sultan’s vizier Jafar (Marwan Kenzari), who also has his eyes on the sultanship, and some minor magical powers to help him get it.

To a degree, the movies that you need to watch after John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum are the same as you need to watch after any John Wick movie. Director Chad Stahelski has been noting the series’ influences all the way through, namely the films of Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, William Friedkin, John Woo, Park Chan-wook, Jackie Chan, and Buster Keaton, plus movies starring Steve McQueen, particularly Bullitt, and John Boorman’s Point Blank specifically and especially.


Fortunately (but surprisingly), I haven’t done one of these lists for any of the John Wickmovies yet. Still, I don’t want to be too general. The following picks indeed include some movies that could be recommended to fans of John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, but each has a direct connection to Chapter 3, either for the filmmakers or for myself.

 knocking Avengers: Endgame from the top after a three-week run — John Wick 4 has been confirmed. Not only that, the sequel has a release date: May 21, 2021.
The first John Wick movie opened in 2014 and grossed just under $90 million total, while its 2017 sequel made $172 million lifetime. The third movie, which debuted last Friday, made $57 million domestically and another $36 million overseas ($93 million total), greatly outpacing John Wick 2.

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