<Li> The Fire Rose (1995) by Mercedes Lackey, part of the Elementals series . </Li> <Li> The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro is another science fiction retelling of "Beauty and the Beast". It won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2001 Affaire de Coeur Award for Best Science Fiction Novel . The first third of the novel appeared as a three - part serialization in Analog magazine in the 1999 May, June, and July / August issues . Tor Books published the full novel in 2000 . </Li> <Li> Beastly, written in 2007 by Alex Flinn, sets the story in modern - day Manhattan . </Li> <Ul> <Li> A French version entitled La Belle et la Bête was made in 1946, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as the Beauty . This version adds a subplot involving Belle's suitor Avenant, also played by Marais . </Li> <Li> A 1952 animated feature film, The Scarlet Flower, based upon Aksakov's aforementioned tale, was directed by Lev Atamanov and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm . It was restored at the Gorky Film Studio in 1987, and is now widely available on several video and DVD editions in Russia (an English - subtitled version has not been released). </Li> <Li> A 1962 version directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Joyce Taylor and Mark Damon, had the Beast as a prince who transformed into a werewolf at night, with makeup by Universal's Jack Pierce . </Li> <Li> In 1987, The Cannon Group and Golan - Globus Productions released Beauty and the Beast, a musical live - action version, directed by Eugene Marner, starring John Savage as Beast, and Rebecca De Mornay as Beauty, with original music by Lori McKelvey . It was released on VHS in 1988 by Cannon Video, and on DVD in 2005 by MGM Home Entertainment . </Li> <Li> In 1991, Walt Disney Feature Animation produced a musical animated film entitled Beauty and the Beast, directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton, and songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman . Like the 1946 version, the Disney version also names Beauty "Belle" and gives her a handsome suitor (here named Gaston) who eventually plots to kill the Beast . The Beast is depicted to having the head structure and horns of a bison, the jaws, teeth, and mane of a lion, the eyebrow of a gorilla, the tusks of a wild boar, the arms and body of a bear, and the hind legs and tail of a wolf . </Li> <Li> Children's film producer Diane Eskenazi produced Beauty and the Beast, directed by Masakazu Higuchi and Chinami Namba, for Golden Films in 1993 . The film, which relied on moderate animation techniques but was mostly faithful to the original tale, featured classical compositions as opposed to an original soundtrack, featuring the works of many well - known popular composers . This film's version of the Beast has the body of a gorilla, the mane of a lion, the snout and tusks of a common warthog, and the tail of a bull . </Li> <Li> The theme of the music video "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf, released in 1993, is adapted from Beauty and the Beast . </Li> <Li> A 2005 Viking period film directed by David Lister was alternately known as Beauty and the Beast and Blood of Beasts . </Li> <Li> A dark version of the fairy tale updated to modern times, director Robert Beaucage's 2008 film Spike, was described (at its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival where it was chosen as part of the Best of the Fest) as "Angela Carter rewriting La Belle et la Bête as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer". </Li> <Li> Another modern take is Beastly starring Alex Pettyfer as the beast (named Kyle) and Vanessa Hudgens as the love interest (named Lindy). Directed by Daniel Barnz it is based on the book Beastly mentioned above . </Li> <Li> Beauty and the Beast, a French - German film, released in 2014 . </Li> <Li> Beauty and the Beast, a Disney live - action adaptation of the 1991 animated film, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, was released on March 17, 2017 . </Li> </Ul>

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