Disney has hired Joe Ahearne (Danny Boyle’s upcoming Trance) to script The Beast, a live-action 3D adaptation of Beauty & the Beast. But audiences should expect a film far different than the studio’s 1991 animated musical. In the same vein as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and Oz The Great and Powerful, The Beast will take a darker approach to the classic fairy tale. Deadline.com has the full story.