Anika Noni Rose is “deeply upset” that ‘The Princess and the Frog’ will not be made right into a tv present.
The 52-year-old actress voiced the function of Tiana within the 2009 animated musical movie and Disney+ had plans to remake it as a collection for his or her streaming platform however confirmed in early March that the challenge had been shelved.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (11.03.25, Anika stated: “Final week an announcement was made relating to the cancellation of the collection, ‘Tiana’.
“I have been getting a great deal of messages expressing kindness, help, and overwhelming disappointment. “I’ve additionally been requested by completely different retailers to make a press release, however I would slightly discuss to you straight.
“I too am deeply upset that the continuation of Tiana’s journey in collection kind has been minimize brief.
The Disney Legend added that the collection had been a “very long time coming” and thanked the author and director Jenn Lee for all of the “lovely work” she had performed on the challenge.
She added: “The collection was a very long time coming, and loads of lovely work was put into it by all the creatives concerned, together with – however not restricted to – very long time champion Jenn Lee, our fantastic author/director Joyce Sherri, some fabulous animators, and a tremendous music workforce.”
The shelving of the collection was first confirmed by The Hollywood Repoter, who famous that “regardless of greatest efforts, together with a number of modifications to the artistic workforce”, it had turn out to be unimaginable to place the challenge “the place it wanted to be”.
The outlet famous on the time that “manufacturing prices” had turn out to be a problem, however the character remains to be a “key property” for Disney and is among the official lineup from their Disney Princess vary, which additionally contains the likes of Cinderella, Snow White and Belle from ‘Magnificence and the Beast’.
Regardless of the cancellation, Disney is alleged to be growing a “separate brief kind” challenge based mostly on the unique movie, though particulars are “beneath wraps” at current.
‘The Princess and the Frog’ is predicated on the German folks story ‘The Frog Prince’ options songs resembling ‘Nearly There’ and ‘When We’re Human’.
