Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Trailer Coming Tomorrow
Last month Disney released a special look at Aladdin during the Grammy Awards, including a long awaited first look at Will Smith’s Genie. Now, with the film just over two months away, Good Morning America have announced that the full trailer for Guy Ritchie’s live action reimagining of the classic tale will premiere tomorrow morning.
TOMORROW: A @GMA WORLD PREMIERE — the first full trailer of @disneyaladdin, LIVE. #Aladdinhttps://t.co/hOA4cZh95s pic.twitter.com/FT0dU6AQdk
— Good Morning America (@GMA) 11 March 2019
After the mixed, at best, reaction to the Grammy TV spot, there’s a lot riding on the full trailer to really wow fans and rebuild some of the positive word of mouth that the film was getting following it’s teaser trailer last year.
Fortunately, it sounds like the trailer will impress fans who were disappointed by their first look at the Genie. Scott Ladewig, who recently found himself the center of attention on Twitter after revealing details of footage from Star Wars: Episode IX and Avengers: Endgame from the Disney Shareholders meeting last week, also got to see some new footage from Aladdin.
The footage from Avengers, Episode IX, Lion King, and Aladdin all looked great. Hopefully the people up in arms about the genie will settle down once they see what we saw.
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 7 March 2019
I thought he looked much better than he did in the last teaser trailer. Looked more natural (as natural as a giant blue Will Smith can look anyway).
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 10 March 2019
He then went on to confirm that the Genie he saw looked much closer to the, superior, still image that Disney released at the same time as the Grammy preview.
Yes, that’s what we saw. Where did you find this?
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 10 March 2019
So, in the words of Genie, “here’s hoping” that everyone will be happy when we see Genie again tomorrow morning.
As for what else he saw;
Aladdin looked really good. The clip had brief glimpses of several scenes. Carpet scenes looked good. My brain is a bit foggy at the moment.. We saw big blue Genie, regular size blue Genie, and not blue Genie.
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 8 March 2019
According to Ladewig “big blue Genie” is the jumbo sized Genie, like the one we can see in the finished CGI image, whilst “regular size blue” Genie is human size, and “not blue” Genie is human form of Genie that we saw in the Entertainment Weekly images at the end of last year.
In terms of Genie, the shareholders were shown footage from both ‘Friend Like Me’ and ‘Prince Ali’, a distance shot of Genie and Aladdin looking out towards Agrabah, were Genie’s lower half was sparkling and magical looking smoke, and some footage that looked to be the same scene as the image above;
SPOILER WARNING Aladdin
… Genie about making him a prince.
We did hear Aladdin and Jasmine speak. She and Aladdin were talking, and he says something along the lines of “I thought a princess could go anywhere” and she replies “not this princess”. We saw Aladdin ask her…
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 10 March 2019
SPOILER WARNING Aladdin
… and Genie makes a motion with his hand and Aladdin moves backwards against his will away from Genie towards Jasmine’s direction, and Aladdon says something like “Really?” and then he slowly turns round to face that direction.
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 10 March 2019
So it sounds like shareholders saw enough footage of Genie to reassure them.
In addition to teasing the opening of ‘A Whole New World’, shareholders were treated to additional scenes of Aladdin and Jasmine;
You’re welcome.
Oh forgot to mention…
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there were also scenes of Jasmine and Rajah walking down stairs, Aladdin running through marketplace to escape the guards, and a scene of Jafar and Aladdin out talking in the desert before they go to the cave.
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) 10 March 2019
Aladdin opens May 24th 2019.
Chris is a lifelong fan of Disney, Star Wars and super heroes who can’t quite believe this golden age of movies and TV we’re living in. Having written blogs dedicated to Disney’s Aladdin musical and Star Wars Celebration, Chris is excited to be part of the MNN team.
