Disney Develops the Live-Action Fairytale "Sadé", About African Princess

Sadé, meet Ariel, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Belle, Tiana … You understand.

The Disney Princess line has a new member, now that the studio is developing "Sadé", a fairy tale about a young African princess, according to Deadline.

The project currently has no director attached and was chosen on the basis of a pitch by Ola Shokunbi and Lindsey Reed Palmer, who will write the screenplay. The director of "Dope" Rick Famuyiwa is about to produce

The film follows a girl named Sadé, who certainly seems to be able to walk with the Disney movie princesses. Amanda Duke of Deadline writes that when the "Kingdom of Sadé is threatened by a mysterious evil force, [she] accepts her newly discovered magical powers to protect herself and her people."

"With The film's description continues, "Sadé embarks on an adventure that will allow her to embrace what makes her special and save the kingdom."

Sadé will be the first African character to direct a Disney princess film. (Shuri's "Black Panther" does not count, since Letitia Wright, who played the character, did not receive the highest rating.) In almost 100 years, the studio's fairy tales had only one female character Central Black, Tiana in 2009 "The Princess and the Frog", in New Orleans, which vaguely inspires from a fable.

Disney is about to release his latest live film, "Christopher Robin," featuring all of your favorite Hundred Acre Wood of Winnie the Pooh, next week. Other projects being developed at the studio include "Aladdin", "Mulan", a sequel "Maleficent" and "The Lion King".

And if the Disney princesses of the animated variety are your thing, then go for a theater when "Ralph Breaks the Internet", a sequel "Wreck-It Ralph", hits in November. It will bring together the full range of princesses in a scene, and from what we have seen, it is glorious.