By now many of you have seen this poster or the tiktok.
Now, in case you want to know if this is true or not I would say it’s fake. There is good evidence that the release date for this movie is July 19th 2024. There has been a few news pieces on that and it’s on IMDB which grain of salt but it is still far easier to create a photoshop image and TikTok than it to edit IMDB. So unless that release day is wrong this is fake and it is.
BUT let’s just LOOK at the “casting.” It is rather easy to tell which roles the actors are intended for.
Josh Gad as Quasimodo. I have said much on this subject already. If he doesn’t play Quasimodo it would be MORE of a shocker. And until it’s officially announced I maintain he likely to Quasimodo for this version.
Gal Gadot for Esmeralda. Again I have said a bit on this one in my IMDB trivia post however Gadot is set to play the Evil Queen in the Snow White remake so it is less likely that she would play two different Disney remake characters for movies that release the same year (unless the the July 2024 date is wrong.)
Chris Evans for Phoebus. I mean sure that could work. Evans fits the actor-type for Phoebus.
Peter Capaldi for Frollo. I’ve said that an actor for Frollo should have a hard, angular look to them and Capaldi does. I’ll admit I’m not familiar his roles so I don’t know how good a Frollo he would be but the base look is there.
Imelda Staunton as Laverne. I have seen Staunton is a few different roles but as Laverne? Maybe I’m sure she can handle the role, it’s not complex just a mixing of grumpy and tender.
Kelsey Grammer as Victor. Sure why not. Victor is the mid-point between the gargoyles so the character can be anything that the production needs to balance out the group. So a snarky elegance could work.
Jack Black as Hugo. I still would prefer no gargoyles for this remake but Black does have a quality to him that could soften Hugo’s sense of humor and make it more endearing. It is however not beyond the scope that the gargoyles could have different personas in the remake unlikely but it still a change that could happen
Sacha Baron Cohen as Clopin. I do like the idea of le mis actor in another Victor Hugo related movie project so sure why not.
Also according to Gad this fan-casting is not real (https://www.justjared.com/2023/03/21/josh-gad-confirms-hes-not-actually-starring-in-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-movie-for-now-at-least/)
Edit June 2023- Was looking through old posts and I found this one from July 12th 2018 (a few months before the Live Action version was even announced) basically it’s a fan-casting that is very similar…
https://www.thehunchblog.com/2018/07/12/a-not-real-casting-list-for-a-disney-remake/