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Up-and-comers Teagan Croft (Titans) and Milo Manheim (Zombies franchise) have landed the lead roles in Disney‘s live-action Tangled movie, based on their Academy Award-nominated 2010 animated feature, Deadline can confirm.
The pair will respectively play Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, the thief who helps the princess escape the tower she’s stuck in. They take over roles portrayed in the original film by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. While Scarlett Johansson was recently eyeing the villain role of Mother Gothel, she’s fallen off the project, leaving that role still open.
In December 2024, we were first to report that The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey had boarded to direct the film from a script draft by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Plot details for the new Tangled are under wraps. Disney briefly pressed pause on the film, following the box office failure of their live-action Snow White in early 2025, but have been actively putting it together again as of last fall. Kristin Burr will produce for Burr! Productions.
Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, the original Tangled was a modern retelling of the classic Rapunzel fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In it, Rapunzel, a spirited young princess with magical, golden hair, escapes from her isolated tower for the first time to experience the world, embarking on an adventure with a charming thief, only to discover her true identity and face the dangerous truth about the woman who kept her captive. A pop culture phenomenon, the film grossed over $590 million worldwide, scored an Oscar nomination for original song “I See the Light,” and was among the films revitalizing Disney’s princess genre for a new generation. Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater were behind the film’s music.
Previously, Croft has been seen in projects like the DC show Titans and the Australian film True Spirit, whereas Manheim has been seen in the Zombies films for Disney Channel and Paramount+’s School Spirits. THR was first to the news of the castings.
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