Nasim Pedrad will play Mara, the loyal handmaiden and friend of Naomi Scott’s Princess Jasmine. In the original animated hit, Jafar was rarely without his equally scheming pet parrot, Iago (Gilbert Gottfried), who will be voiced in this film by Alan Tudyk. While the Dutch actor appeared The Mummy, Ben-Hur, ensemble drama The Promise and joins a star-stacked cast in director Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, the mustachioed, manipulative maker of machinations will be his biggest role yet. Marwan Kenzari has been cast as the villainous Jafar. You’ve got some serious shoes to fill, since he was voiced to perfection by Robin Williams in the 1992 animated original. Smith recently bowed out of a role in Tim Burton’s live action Dumbo adaptation for the studio and his role as Genie was revealed at a D23 Expo. Will Smith will play the Genie, which immediately gives this version of Aladdin the requisite star power. Moreover, her existing credits under the Disney umbrella include the 2009 Disney Channel UK series Life Bites and the 2011 Disney TV movie Lemonade Mouth. She also appeared in the fact-based 2015 drama The 33 and may also be remembered for her role on Fox’s extravagantly exorbitant 2011 time-travel/dinosaurs TV series Terra Nova. Scott’s name should be familiar to anyone who saw the recent Power Rangers reboot film, in which she played Kimberly Hart/Pink Ranger. Naomi Scott, a 24-year-old London-born actress, will play Princess Jasmine. Massoud apparently beat out well known candidates like Dev Patel and Riz Ahmed, as well as relative unknowns like Achraf Koutet and George Kosturos who were part of “several rounds” of testing in London for Aladdin. Mena Massoud plays Aladdin himself in what will be the first major film role for the newcomer. The confirmed cast of Aladdin consists of: However, what might have nabbed him this Iago role is his prior work with Disney, providing his voice for the scene-stealing droid, K-2SO, in 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Nobody, and is set to star in Syfy’s Dark Horse comics adaptation series, Resident Alien. Tudyk, who will always be remembered as a “leaf in the wind” as Firefly‘s ace pilot, Hoban Washburne, can be currently seen – in abstract form – on DC Universe’s Doom Patrol as villain Mr.
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