Prepare for 2024 to be the yr of Tiana. Not solely is the new Disney Parks attraction primarily based on The Princess and the Frog, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, slated to open subsequent yr, the long-awaited Disney+ sequence specializing in the film’s culinarily gifted heroine is lastly making huge strides ahead.
Variety reports that Tiana—a present first announced in 2020, with a 2023 release date—is now aiming for 2024, a date that feels extra strong now that it’s obtained a lead author and director behind the wheel: Joyce Sherrí, whose writing credit embody Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass sequence for Netflix. Because the commerce experiences, the sequence itself might have been introduced awhile in the past, however the primary premise hasn’t modified, as “the present will observe the title character as she ‘units off for a grand new journey because the newly topped Princess of Maldonia, however a calling to her New Orleans previous isn’t far behind.’”
With the SAG-AFTRA strike nonetheless ongoing, there’s no phrase but on whether or not Anika Noni Rose and Bruno Campos may reprise tinheritor function as Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, or who else may be a part of the voice solid; as previously reported, Tiana’s Bayou Journey is ready to convey again Rose and Campos in addition to Jennifer Lewis (Mama Odie) and Michael Leon Wooley (Louis), who will file new content material for the trip.
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