Wednesday, May 18, 2016

One year ago...production begins on 'Beauty and the Beast'

Lights, camera, action! One year ago today, principal photography began on Beauty and the Beast in London. Over the next few months, fans were treated to the tiniest look behind the scenes with Disney's official Snapchat, as well as a few photos and tweets from the cast on set. Several cast members, including Josh Gad (Le Fou) and Ewan McGregor (Lumiere), also commented on the film while promoting other projects last summer, with McGregor describing his time on set as "fantastic fun." Director Bill Condon also spoke about the film, acknowledging the importance of the animated classic and its characters to fans and praising star Emma Watson (Belle) as "a beautiful singer, a wonderful dancer."

Stars Emma Watson and Luke Evans (Gaston) wrapped filming in late August 2015 with principal photography coming to a close that same month. Beauty and the Beast is now in post-production, with composer Alan Meken hard at work on the film's score and the studio already test screening the film, with audience reception being "nothing short of extraordinary.”

Below is a timeline for the film's production, from May - August 2015. You can also look back on the film's pre-production timeline here.
  
May 2015
May 18, 2015- Production begins in London

May 27-29, 2015- Disney reveals the first look at the set via Snapchat


May 28, 2015- Josh Gad tweets from the set

June 2015
June 2, 2015- Beauty and the Beast costume designer revealed

June 2-3, 2015- New Snapchat photos from the set

June 4, 2015- Alan Menken reveals three new songs written for Beauty and the Beast
According to Menken, he and Tim Rice wrote three new songs for the film, including "Forever More" and "Days in the Sun." The first is sung by the Beast and Menken described the second as a lullaby sung by the enchanted objects. While many fans speculated songs from the Broadway production, specifically "Home" and "If I Can't Love Her," would be featured, Menken confirmed no songs from the stage show will be part of the live-action film.
June 11, 2015- New Snapchat photo from the set



June 12-18, 2015- New Snapchat photo from the set at Shepperton Studios


June 19, 2015- New photo of Josh Gad and Audra McDonald
A photo posted by Josh Gad (@joshgad) on

June 21, 2015- Ewan McGregor discusses Beauty and the Beast at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

June 23, 2015- Josh Gad tweets from the set


June 24-25, 2015- New Snapchat photo from the set

June 24-26, 2015- Ewan McGregor sings "Be Our Guest' at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and on The Graham Norton Show



June 30 - July 2, 2015- New Snapchat photos from the set


July 2015
July 1, 2015- Behind the scenes photo from Luke Evans
A photo posted by thereallukevans (@thereallukeevans) on

July 3, 2015- Behind the scenes photo from Josh Gad
A photo posted by Josh Gad (@joshgad) on

July 7-16, 2015- New Snapchat photos from the set

July 15 - 20, 2015- New behind the scenes photos from Luke Evans
A photo posted by thereallukevans (@thereallukeevans) on

A photo posted by thereallukevans (@thereallukeevans) on


July 27, 2015- Josh Gad wraps filming on Beauty and the Beast

A photo posted by Josh Gad (@joshgad) on

July 29, 2015- New Snapchat video from the set with Luke Evans and Josh Gad




August 2015
August 6, 2015- New photo from Luke Evans
A photo posted by thereallukevans (@thereallukeevans) on

August 5-13, 2015- New Snapchat photos


August 12, 2015- New photo from Luke Evans
A photo posted by thereallukevans (@thereallukeevans) on

August 14-15, 2015- First look at Beauty and the Beast debuts at the D23 Expo/ D23 Expo Round-Up






August 21-22, 2015- Emma Watson and Luke Evans wrap filming




August 26- Production wraps on Beauty and the Beast

Interviews (May-August 2015)

Ian McKellen: "It's terribly exciting!"

Luke Evans, Ian McKellen & Bill Condon talk 'Beauty and the Beast'

Bill Condon: "It’s an important movie to a lot of people."

Ewan McGregor talks 'Beauty and the Beast' at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Ewan McGregor: "It was great fun."

Ian McKellen: "It just tickled my fancy."

Ian McKellen discusses 'Beauty and the Beast' ending

Josh Gad: "Emma Watson has an incredible singing voice."

Bill Condon: "You will believe a beast can waltz."

Audra McDonald: "Bill Condon is creating something quite beautiful."

Josh Gad: "Luke is going to blow people away."

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