“This is a very sad message for us to tweet. We are devastated. Goodbye, for now, from Gaston and Le fou,” Luke Evans wrote on Twitter shortly after reports surfaced that Disney+ cancelled the “Beauty and the Beast” prequel series, “The Little Town”, it had been working on.
Evans, who played Gaston in the live-action film, was set to reprise his role alongside Josh Gad as LeFou in an eight-episode musical series written and produced by “Once Upon a Time” creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis.
The news of the cancellation comes as the series was expected to finally start production this summer in the U.K. It even had recently added Rita Ora to the cast as an original character.
According to Deadline, the project had been previously delayed after a number of creative elements were not finalized. The decision to not move forward, the outlet reports, “was made for creative reasons, with the scripts and original music not coming together in the direction expected or running behind schedule.” “Sadly, ‘Tis true,” Gad confirmed on Twitter. “We tried to make it all work but under the gun it wasn’t meant to be… for now.
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