Walt Disney Animation Studios is coming up with the animation of the classic fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk," which will have the cast of 'Tangled' and 'Frozen' onboard, announced Disney chief creative officer John Lasseter at the D23 fan expo in Anaheim.
The movie, 'Gigantic' will be directed by Tangled's Nathan Greno, while its music will be pitched in by Oscar-winning Frozen songwriter duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson Lopez.
Dorothy McKim of Meet the Robinsons will be producing the fairy-tale venture set to rock the theaters in 2018.
Disney said they just don't want to make a big-scale Hollywood variant of the fairy tale, but an ultimate rendition. "We want to make the definitive version of Jack And The Beanstalk," Greno told reporters at D23.
Director Greno narrated the plot of the story set in Spain in 15th century when the country was exploring the seas for new adventures.
"This age of exploration was where people were going off finding new lands. That's what happens when Jack goes up the beanstalk and finds this whole new world," he said.
"You have to look at the original story, the iconic imagery, and then you have to mix in some twists and turns," he continued. "When John Lasseter asked us where are we going to set this film, we started looking around the world at different areas and countries, and we landed on Spain."
The story will not be a traditional one, as the hero Jack discovers not just "one big castle and one big giant walking around," Greno added. "He finds a whole new world up in the sky."
Up there, Jack encounters an 11-year-old giant girl named Imma, who is 60 feet tall with a "fiery, feisty" personality, and thinks Jack is a doll.
The character of the giant girl was inspired by a real young girl when they visited Spain, who tossed a soccer ball over their heads, raced their rental car, and brazenly shouted that "she was the princess of her people."
The plot has adventure-seeking Jack helping the giant child find her way back home, but he was not ready for her larger-than-life personality.
The bad guys in the story are the Storm Giants, over 120 feet tall.
