D23 Debuts The First Look At The Live Action Tangled Movie

It has been hard to not spoil ourselves with all of the Tangled photos that have found their way online. It feels like we have waited our entire lives for Tangled to get a live-action retelling and now that it is coming – we don’t want to spoil ourselves.

But when it comes from D23 we don’t feel like it is spoiling ourselves. Instead it feels like a treat. And it wasn’t even a lot of footage that had us stopping in our tracks, paying attention and our hearts beating fast with excitement.

Mother Gothel, Kathryn Hahn (The Studio, Agatha All Along), entered the stage to talk about Tangled, a live-action retelling of the 2010 Disney animated film based on the Brothers Grimm Rapunzel fairy tale.

“I love playing Mother Gothel. She’s stunning, hilarious, fab, kind, generous to a fault,” Hahn said from the D23 stage Friday. “Might be overprotective but that’s because she cares so much.”

A very small piece of footage, literally a shot of Rapunzel’s long blonde hair that had us clapping and also genuinely wanting that hair care routine. The D23 audience was also treated to a taped message from Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, Teagan Croft (Titans) and Milo Manheim (Zombies franchise), who are currently filming in Spain.

The film is directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) and produced by Kristin Burr (Cruella) for Burr! Productions, with Lucy Kitada (Project Hail Mary) serving as executive producer.

In addition to Hahn, Croft and Manheim, the film also stars Diego Luna (Andor) as a new character, Hawthorne, Caitríona Balfe (Outlander, Belfast) as Queen Arianna, Elliot Cowan (The Crown) as King Frederic, and Patrick and Hugo McPherson (Pear) as the Stabbington twins. 

Tangled will open in theaters March 31, 2028.