Luke Evans Explains Why the Beauty and the Beast Spin-Off Series Is Taking a "Little Longer"

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Luke Evans, who played Gaston successful 2017's Beauty and the Beast, gave a timeline connected erstwhile the Disney+ spin-off bid starring himself and Josh Gad volition happen.

Luke Evans Gushes Over Live-Action "Beauty and the Beast"

No 1 says nary to Gaston. 

Luke Evans, who played the slick villain successful 2017's Beauty and the Beast, has an update on his Disney+ spin-off bid with LeFou (Josh Gad)—and be definite to springiness 5 hurrahs and 12 hip-hips, due to the fact that it's inactive happening.

"It's been enactment connected hold," helium told Entertainment Weekly successful an interrogation published Sept. 8. "We conscionable wanna marque definite that it is perfectly the champion it tin be, and if that means we conscionable person to hold a small longer to finesse definite pieces of it, past that's what we're going to bash due to the fact that this is simply a precise important legacy."

Evans said the creators privation to "honor" the characters with "the champion communicative we tin perchance deliver," but it "is gonna happen" astatine "some constituent successful the adjacent future."

He added that the spin-off volition absorption connected however Gaston and LeFou met and became the duo that we spot in Beauty and the Beast, a conception that "opened up respective cans of worms."

"To navigate a communicative of those 2 radical and besides caller characters, and past bring them close up to the infinitesimal wherever you conscionable them successful the movie has been a thrilling experience," helium said. "There's a batch of ways it could go. So that's wherever we person been truthful acold and wherever we hopefully volition spell to successful the future."

The movie made headlines successful 2017 for touting an "exclusively cheery moment," for Gad's LeFou, though galore critics—Gad included—believe the country (in which LeFou danced with different antheral conscionable earlier the credits) didn't spell acold enough. Evans said he's "not sure" if LeFou's sexuality volition beryllium explored.

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"There's truthful galore things astir these 2 characters that we don't truly cognize astir their root stories," helium explained. "Were they ever these creatures oregon were they different? It's a spot like, nary one's calved bad. Things happen, you marque incorrect decisions, oregon you take to marque a determination that affects the remainder of your life. I deliberation that was wherever we were going with the thought and concept. So I anticipation 1 time soon we volition beryllium capable to present that communicative for you guys."

Beauty and the Beast is present streaming connected Disney+.

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