Guillermo Del Toro has officially dropped out of directing Warner Bros Beauty And The Beast in the wake of the recent news that Disney are planning their own live-action imagining of the tale as old as time. Warner Bros will now turns to another director to helm the project based the current draft of Del Toro’s script and presumably with star Emma Watson still attached.

While Del Toro will produce the new film, he is currently working on a speculative script for a potential Pacific Rim sequel and has haunted house horror Crimson Peak due out next year.