Diego Luna Boards Disney’s Live-Action ‘Tangled’

Diego Luna is set to join Disney’s live-action take on “Tangled.”** The actor will be stepping into a newly created role for the feature as it prepares to begin filming in Spain this June. The project adapts the studio’s 2010 Academy Award-nominated animated film and marks another collaboration between Luna and Disney after “Andor.”

Character details are being kept under wraps. As previously announced, Teagan Croft and Milo Manheim lead the ensemble as Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, the thief who helps her escape the tower, with Kathryn Hahn set to play the villainous Mother Gothel.

Michael Gracey, who directed “The Greatest Showman” and “Better Man,” is set to direct the project, working from a screenplay from Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.

Released in 2010 and directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, “Tangled” was a twist on Rapunzel and marked the beginning of a creative resurgence at Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film grossed nearly $600 million worldwide.