To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, “This is the way cinema ends/Not with falling box office attendance, but with live-action remakes”. That is to say, Disney is remaking Tangled as a live-action feature, with The Greatest Showman‘s Michael Gracey in negotiations to helm the new version of the 2010 animated film.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who is helming Sony’s reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, wrote the latest draft of the screenplay for this new film. Producers include Kristin Burr for Burr! Productions, along with Lucy Kitada (The Baby-Sitters Club).

Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about Rapunzel, the original Tangled centres on a long-haired girl who has spent her life trapped in a tower until she hatches a plan to see the world with a would-be thief.

This is just the latest in Disney’s endless conveyor belt of live-action remakes, with Mufasa: The Lion King releasing this month, the Rachel Zegler-led Snow White set for March of next year, and Lilo & Stitch soon after that. That’s to say nothing of the frame-for-frame remake of How To Train Your Dragon at Universal or the other Disney confirmed projects in the works that include a live-action Moana, Robin Hood, Aristocats, Hercules, and Bambi.