Princess Tiana is returning to the screen. Deadline has confirmed that “The Photograph” filmmaker Stella Meghie has been tapped to write and direct a “Princess and the Frog” spinoff series for Disney+. Premiering in 2023, the project is a “long-form musical series” entitled “Tiana.”
In the show, Tiana “sets off for a grand new adventure as the newly crowned Princess of Maldonia, but a calling to her New Orleans past isn’t far behind,” the source teases.
Released in 2009, “The Princess and the Frog” is a 1920s New Orleans-set retelling of the classic fairytale about inner beauty. The main character, Tiana, voiced by Broadway star Anika Noni Rose, marked Disney’s first animated Black princess. Rose is expected to return for “Tiana.”
“The Princess and the Frog” earned over $100 million domestically and $267 million worldwide. The pic received an Oscar nod for Best Animated Feature and two for Best Original Song (“Almost There” and “Down in New Orleans”).
Meghie has directed the features “The Photograph,” “The Weekend,” “Jean of the Joneses,” and “Everything, Everything.” She penned the former three, and Rose co-starred in the latter.
Episodes of “Insecure,” “First Wives Club,” and “Grown-ish” are among Meghie’s other directing credits. Her upcoming slate includes executive producing the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” starring Naomi Ackie and directed by Kasi Lemmons.
