Sabrina Carpenter Rumored To Have Met With Disney About Playing Rapunzel In Live-Action TANGLED Movie

Sabrina Carpenter Rumored To Have Met With Disney About Playing Rapunzel In Live-Action TANGLED Movie

As Disney begins the casting process for its planned live-action Tangled remake, we're hearing that pop megastar Sabrina Carpenter has met with the studio about potentially playing Rapunzel...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 02, 2025 07:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Via Toonado.com

Coming off persistent rumors that Disney was planning to move forward with a live-action remake of 2010's Tangled, we finally got confirmation that the project is officially in development last year.

Despite reports claiming that Baz Luhrmann (Elvis, The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge) was being eyed to direct, THR announced that Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) was officially in talks to take the helm.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who helmed Sony’s upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy sequel, wrote the latest draft of the screenplay. Producers include Kristin Burr for Burr! Productions, along with Emmy-winning producer Lucy Kitada (The Baby-Sitters Club).

Florence Pugh (Oppenheimer, Thunderbolts*) was rumored to be in line to star as Rapunzel, but according to scooper MTTSH, Sabrina Carpenter has now met with the studio about potentially playing the lead role.

This isn't the first time we've heard the pop sensation's name mentioned in connection with this project, but previous rumors have only suggested that she was on Disney's radar.

Carpenter will obviously be best known for her career as a singer/songwriter, but she actually started out as an actress and has appeared in the likes of Adventures in Babysitting (2016), The Hate U Give (2018), The Short History of the Long Road (2019), Clouds (2020), Emergency (2022), and Netflix's Tall Girl movies. She also played Cady Heron in the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2020).

The original Tangled was only loosely based on Rapunzel, and told the story of a beautiful princess who has been "locked away in a tower since she was captured as a baby by an old hag. Her magical long blonde hair has the power to provide eternal youth, and the evil Gothel uses this power to keep her young. At the age of 18, Rapunzel becomes curious about the outside world, and when a prince uses her tower as a refuge, she asks him to help her escape."

Gracey is best known for directing Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams in the 20th Century Fox musical The Greatest Showman, which tells a fictionalized version of P.T. Barnum’s life. He also helmed the upcoming Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man.

Tangled isn't usually held up as one of Disney's better animated efforts, but it's well worth a watch if you haven't seen it, and the story would lend itself well to a live-action retelling.

No release or production dates yet, but we'll be sure to keep you updated.

What do you make of this news? Any interest in a live-action Tangled movie? Le us know in the comments section down below.

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Batmangina
Batmangina - 4/2/2025, 7:49 AM
Shouldn't Rapunzel be black for today's audience?

Asking for a friend.
JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 4/2/2025, 7:59 AM
@Batmangina - rent free 😮‍💨
Fogs
Fogs - 4/2/2025, 10:01 AM
@Batmangina - booooo

Everybody knows the part belongs to samuel l jackson
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 4/2/2025, 10:46 AM
@Fogs - I’d honestly pay money to see that. We’d all know it’s a joke, but everyone would go see it.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 4/2/2025, 12:11 PM
@Fogs - TAKE MY MONEY
Batmangina
Batmangina - 4/2/2025, 12:12 PM
@JurassicClunge - Yes. Much of today's audience does live rent free thanks to their parents.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/2/2025, 1:26 PM
@JurassicClunge -

Like Trump, Musk, deportations, and a bunch of other things live rent free in your head.
JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 4/2/2025, 1:45 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - i live in the UK you 🤡 idgaf about your orange imbecile of a president 🤣🤣😌😌
HagridsHole1
HagridsHole1 - 4/2/2025, 7:58 AM
I'm surprised you's haven't reported on what's arguably the most mental film news story of the year

David Fincher directing a sequel to Quentin Tarantinos Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, written by Quentin, for Netflix with Brad Pitt returning as Cliff Booth.

It's the most April Fools sounding news ever, but it's true
McMurdo
McMurdo - 4/2/2025, 10:37 AM
@HagridsHole1 - how random
HagridsHole1
HagridsHole1 - 4/2/2025, 10:50 AM
@McMurdo - I know, right ?!
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/2/2025, 8:04 AM
she white
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TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/2/2025, 8:19 AM
Honestly , I like this casting the best out of the rumored ones we have had so far…

Somebody like Florence Pugh would be great but Rapunzel is suppose to be a teen which the former isn’t and while Carpenter herself is 25 , I think she could still pass for an 18 year old.

Also she started out as an actress and received praise for her work on screen and stage aswell.

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Plus , she can sing so that helps aswell haha.
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 4/2/2025, 8:21 AM
I’ve met them too
DarkOak
DarkOak - 4/2/2025, 8:28 AM
And?
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/2/2025, 8:33 AM
@DarkOak - and, they report on Disney movies daily on this site, and the articles usually get 150+ comments.

This on isn't because it's a white girl playing Rapunzel.
Gabimaru
Gabimaru - 4/2/2025, 8:39 AM
Will disney hire a black man or hispanic for the thief as a leading man? They want inclusivity aren't they?
tvor03
tvor03 - 4/2/2025, 8:48 AM
IMO, Sabrina Carpenter is one of the fakest, most manufactured pop stars of all time. Nothing about her seems genuine at all.
theFUZZ008
theFUZZ008 - 4/2/2025, 9:00 AM
They're still going for these live-action remakes, huh?
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/2/2025, 1:29 PM
@theFUZZ008 -

They still have a lot of kids they want to indoctrinate and a lot of conservatives they want revenge against for putting President Trump back in power, and not paying for No White and Craptain UnAmerican.
Radders
Radders - 4/2/2025, 9:03 AM
Cool, been waiting for the Only Fans version of Rapunzel
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 4/2/2025, 9:20 AM
Don’t know if she can act, but she looks exactly like rapunzel. All the way down to the cartoonishly large head on a tiny little body.
Fogs
Fogs - 4/2/2025, 10:03 AM
@Shivermetimbers - I laughed
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 4/2/2025, 10:35 AM
@Fogs - Mission accomplished.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 9:23 AM

Confirmed: Live action Rapunzel has a long tattooed wiener.

The prince won't be climbing up her hair.

Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 4/2/2025, 10:36 AM
@DocSpock - HAHAHAHAHA This gave me a BLOL (Belly Laugh Out Loud)
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 11:19 AM
@Shivermetimbers -

I live to serve.
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 4/2/2025, 9:41 AM
Hate to be that guy…but she’s beat. If you actually look at her face she looks like a mix between Young Sheldon’s MeeMaw and a 12 year old boy.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 4/2/2025, 10:37 AM
@BruceWayng - I think she kind of looks like a human bobble head with her tiny little body, but shes still cute. Saying she is beat is pretty wild, but looks are subjective, so I wouldnt say you are wrong.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 4/2/2025, 10:48 AM
@Shivermetimbers - So like a Disney/Pixar character? 😄
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 4/2/2025, 10:52 AM
@JustAWaffle - Yep, I commented a little earlier that she is perfect for the role for that reason! :) If she can act...
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 4/2/2025, 1:53 PM
@Shivermetimbers - Especially that last part. Our family loved Tangled, and it’s weird that they would do the live action remake treatment to their newer stuff. But if it’s done well I’m open in spite of their track record.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 4/2/2025, 9:54 AM
Being able to sing is important of course, but acting is even more important in this case. Can she act?
Super12
Super12 - 4/2/2025, 9:58 AM
I mean, she can sing, act (maybe), and looks pretty spot on for the part. They'd be dumb not to at least consider her.
knomad
knomad - 4/2/2025, 11:13 AM
She's too white. And too female.

How about Dylan Mulvaney? Someone in keeping with Disney's core values
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/2/2025, 1:25 PM
This is definitely an April Fools Day joke.

A live action Rapunzel would not be White.
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/2/2025, 1:41 PM
Jesus. "Can she act, can she act , can she act" Like do a 5 second google search and look at her IMDB and get a modicum of information yourself without it having to be spoonfed directly into your mouths.

Yes, she can act, she's been acting for year and her breakout role was Girl Meets World.

I'm not saying everyone needs to know everything, but it's so easy in the year 2025 to just look something up in nanoseconds as opposed to 80 comments asking if she can act.
grif
grif - 4/2/2025, 2:34 PM
considering the huge success of lion king 2 and snow white. this is a great idea

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