Will Smith Looks Super Weird in Our First Look at Disney’s Live Action ‘Aladdin’
After an exhaustive search, Disney managed to find maybe the only half-dozen or so East Asian actors who can both act and sing to be in their live-action adaptation of Aladdin. It’s really lucky that it worked out, because I don’t even know where you would start to look for someone with those talents from that general geographic area.
We got our first look at the film today from Entertainment Weekly and boy does something seem weird about Will Smith being the Genie.
We can show you the world… of Disney’s live-action #Aladdin! Get a shining, shimmering, splendid first look at the reimagined classic in our magical First Look issue: https://t.co/Kwkcdfen5v pic.twitter.com/7NbyiRRcLH
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) December 19, 2018
I am not the only person who thought there was something off here.
Wow, the Genie in the live-action Aladdin looks amazing! pic.twitter.com/ZrY6V9RIYA
— Michael Ruocco (@AGuyWhoDraws) December 19, 2018
The internet after seeing Will Smith as Genie and the busted ass Aladdin and Jasmine https://t.co/GM1nP72dTk
— fem top (@gayandold) December 19, 2018
Listen if you wanted Sinbad to be the genie you could have just hired him. You didn't have to turn Will Smith into him. #alladin pic.twitter.com/hXlRYo9aVh
— Leon (@LeonCoTheThird) December 19, 2018
Okay, okay, it could have been worse.
ALADDIN: Disney Fan Makes Will Smith's GENIE Blue and it's Mildly Terrifying!https://t.co/rd31ypZUoY pic.twitter.com/FjlpCqzU9H
— ComicBook NOW! (@ComicBookNOW) December 19, 2018
Wow, that is horrifying. At least that’s not real, it’d be really bad if he actually looked like that.
Don't worry, Genie will still be blue for the majority of Disney's live-action Aladdin film. https://t.co/rpVsTwRygm pic.twitter.com/qiXBgaOMxP
— IGN (@IGN) December 19, 2018
Goodnight everybody!
It actually turns out that the Genie is going to be CGI for most of the movie, and looking like a Will Smith Mr. Potatohead is just his human disguise. Which isn’t so bad, and I’m assuming the CGI isn’t ready yet. Hopefully, when it is ready, it looks better than what we’ve seen here. I mean, it can’t be worse, right? Right?
I just want to remind everyone that you don’t have to watch this just because Disney is making it, you can just watch the original Aladdin and pretend everything is still okay with the world.
