Colman Domingo, Robert O'Hara in Talks for Tiana Film
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- Colman Domingo and Robert O'Hara are in talks to write a live-action Princess Tiana film for Disney, described as an original project inspired by the 2009 animated "The Princess and the Frog."
- The project is in very early stages at Disney, which declined to comment; Deadline first reported news of the developing movie.
- O'Hara, director of Broadway's "Slave Play," and Domingo, an Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, would write the film — Anika Noni Rose voiced Tiana in the original animated feature.
- Domingo is repped by WME, Liebman Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham; O'Hara is repped by CAA and Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin.
Why it matters: Disney is developing an original live-action take on Tiana rather than a scene-for-scene remake of the 2009 film, and tapping two prestige-stage names — Domingo, an Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, and "Slave Play" director O'Hara — points to the studio investing fresh creative energy in one of its few Black princesses, though no release timeline has been announced.
