Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26837468-20150317103412/@comment-1894786-20151120003500

CoolDudeAl wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: See, I think that the fact that Wonderland covered the entire Aladdin story (street rat Will is in love with aristocratic Anastasia and befriends the Genie Cyrus who is in love with Alice, who in turn has daddy issues and a stepmother intent on marrying her off, and all four must face off against the villainous sorceror Jafar with occasional appearances by the elderly Sultan), means that Once can do whatever they want with Aladdin and Jasmine. I don't believe they've ever had that kind of freedom with any other character since every other character has followed the rough outline of their original tale.

But even though Agrabah has been introduced, I'd love to have Aladdin and Jasmine be Asian and from Mulan's Empire. It'd be a great nod to the original tale, which takes place in China. Aside from that, they could probably tie into Mulan's story somehow. Aladdin as the Emperor? While I'm okay with them twisting the story of Aladdin and Jasmine, I still think genies, Jafar, and Agrabah should be involved somehow. Because without those things, they are really not giving us Aladdin, or at least the Aladdin everybody is most familiar with. Also, while certain traits or plot elements of Cyrus/Will and Alice/Ana alluded to certain traits or plot elements of Aladdin and Jasmine, they we're not intended to be those characters, as Adam and Eddy have mentioned that they want to do Aladdin and Jasmine. Furthurmore, I think it was very telling that Jafar did not get killed at the end of Wonderland, that they have furthur plans for him. To be fair, they probably didn't kill Jafar because the genie thing is so iconic to the movie. Jafar does, however, die in the Aladdin sequel. Maybe they'll incorporate the sequel's storyline as Aladdin and Jasmine's story?