Marwan Kenzari is now in talks to play the villainous Jafar in Disney and director Guy Ritchie's upcoming live-action musical movie, Aladdin.While the story of Aladdin originated as one of the many folk tales in the centuries-old story collection One Thousand and One Nights, Ritchie's film is based on the Mouse House's Oscar-winning 1992 animated movie adaptation of the tale.
Jafar Is The Biggest Problem With The Aladdin Remake.
Marwan Kenzari is the powerful sorcerer Jafar in Disney’s live-aciton ALADDIN. Courtesy Walt Disney Studios. After college, Kenzari joined the Amsterdam Theatre Group where he worked with internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove, a Tony Award winner for A View from the Bridge on Broadway. “Ivo van Hove is a very important man at his company in Amsterdam.Jafar tries to drown Aladdin to verify who he is and whether he has the lamp on him, yet he only gives a passing glance down at the water after pushing him in. Even if Aladdin had had the lamp on his person, it would’ve taken some time and effort to summon the genie when his hands and feet are both bound.For example Jafar was first played by Naveen Andrews — who is Indian — and later replaced by Israeli actor Oded Fehr. Aladdin was played by an actor with Turkish ancestry, and Jasmine by an Indian-Chinese actress. Other cast members were of Indian ancestry or else Mexican in the case of Peter Gadiot.
Jafar is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' 31st animated feature film Aladdin (1992). He is voiced by American actor Jonathan Freeman, who also portrayed the character in the Broadway musical adaptation.An inspiration to the character is the villain Jafar, played by Conrad Veidt in The Thief of Bagdad, from which Aladdin borrows several character ideas and plot elements.Genie is the tritagonist of the 2019 feature film Aladdin, the live-action remake of the 1992 animated film of the same name. He is portrayed by Will Smith, who also played Agent J in the Men in Black films, Steven Hiller in Independence Day, Mike Lowrey in the Bad Boys movie series and a fictionalized version of himself in TV's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
