in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. ?There?s a particular type of physicality that I grew up with that I was keen on, that 1970s bodybuilder look ? not inflicted by steroids but by lifting vast amounts of weight and eating vast amounts of food ? so I just want a genie with abs, a genie that looks like he can move stuff,?
Ritchie also said that the songs from the 1992 animated film, including the Oscar-winning ?A Whole New World? and Oscar-nominated ?Be Our Guest,? are part of the DNA of the reboot, because ?we didn?t really want to stray from the original stuff, just an embellishment with a couple of new tracks. The new tunes are marginally shifted now with the fact that we?re 26 years later, the world moves on so there is a shift, which is just an unavoidable aspect time.?
A whole new world, indeed. Aladdin opens on May 24, 2019.
