The 2019 film starred Mena Massoud and Will Smith.
When Disney decided to remake the classic 1992 animated film Aladdin into live-action, it was up to writer-director Guy Ritchie to make that transition. In the end, the film was a success and ended up making over $1 billion, with a talented cast led by Mena Massoud and Will Smith.
Recently, Collider’s own Steven Weintraub had the chance to sit down and talk to Ritchie about his upcoming film Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. In discussing Richie’s other projects, Weintraub asked Ritchie whether he would want to do a sequel. The director praised his time working for Disney and said that while it is currently a “wait and see” situation, he would happily go back to make a follow-up, saying:
With the success of Aladdin and the positive experience Ritchie had on the project, it does make sense that he would be up for a return. The 2019 film made a total of $1.05 billion at the global box office and is still the highest-grossing film that Ritchie has ever directed up to this point, nearly doubling the runner-up, 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ($543.4 million).
