Disney’s live-action ‘Tangled’ remake has finally cast its Rapunzel and Flynn Rider
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Walt Disney Pictures has officially found its leads for its forthcoming live-action adaptation of the 2010 animated hit Tangled. Australian actor Teagan Croft, best known for playing Raven in the DC series Titans and the Netflix film True Spirit, will be playing Rapunzel, while American actor Milo Manheim, familiar to Disney audiences from the Zombies franchise, will play the roguish Flynn Rider who helps her escape from captivity, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. The original animated film was first released in 2010, and saw Mandy Moore as the voice of Rapunzel, Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider, and Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel. Loosely based on the Brothers Grimm folktale Rapunzel, Tangled follows Rapunzel, a princess with magical long blonde hair who is kept hidden away by Mother Gothel in a secluded tower. When an outlaw named Flynn Rider …