That’s it. It’s done. The new Beauty and the Beast has an IRL cast.
THR have now reported that Ewan McGregor is in “final negotions” – i.e. he’s such a chill breh you would assume that’s it done and dusted – for the part of Lumiere. For anyone who doesn’t know the story/hasn’t seen the original Disney film/is dead on their inside, the plot = “In exchange for her father’s freedom, a young woman agrees to live with a monstrous beast in his castle, and she may hold the key to his salvation.”
Why they couldn’t find someone French remains to be seen. Still, Mr ‘Man Most Humans Want To Sit On His Face’ McGregor will live-action alongside the ‘love’ 
consisting of these three fuggos:
And, of course, Sir Ian <3.
For those of you frothing at home, the latest appointment of this particular attractive hewman rounds out a cast that looks a little .jpeg like this:
via The Internet Movie Data Base!
U.S. release date is set for March 17th, 2017.
Title image via the magic of Photoshop. (Sorry).
