Disney’s Live-Action ‘Tangled’ Finds Its Mother Gothel in Kathryn Hahn

Kathryn Hahn is in talks to star as Mother Gothel in upcoming live-action adaptation of the 2010 animated film “Tangled,” TheWrap has learned.

Michael Gracey, who directed “The Greatest Showman” and “Better Man,” is set to direct the project, working from a screenplay from Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.

Hahn joins a cast which includes Teagan Croft taking on the role of Rapunzel, and Milo Manheim portraying Flynn Rider.

Released in 2010 and directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, “Tangled” was a twist on Rapunzel and marked the beginning of a creative resurgence at Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film grossed nearly $600 million worldwide.

Kristin Burr is producing via Burr! Productions. Lucy Kitada is the executive producer. 

Disney’s live-action remake strategy has been a company hallmark for over a decade, as films like “Alice in Wonderland,” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” garnered past $1 billion at the box office.

There was talk that Disney was cooling on their live-action pipeline following the release of “Snow White” last spring which bombed. That film, directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, was massively expensive (with a rumored budget of $270 million) and made only $205.7 million worldwide.

But then came “Lilo & Stitch,” which was released last May and grossed $1.o37 billion worldwide, making it the most successful domestically released movie of the year.

A four-time Emmy nominee who was most recently seen in Apple TV/Lionsgate’s “The Studio,” Hahn will next be seen in biopic “Madden” which stars Nicholas Cage and Christian Bale. She is repped by Gersh, Lighthouse Management & Media, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

Deadline first reported the news.

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