Paramount Developing New The King & I Film

The King and I is being adapted yet again, this time by Paramount Pictures, as a contemporary and diverse take on the Broadway classic.

Paramount Pictures will develop Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I into a new feature film.

Paramount recently acquired the rights to the musical written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the duo that brought Broadway hits like The Sound of Music and Oklahoma! into the world. According to a report by THR, no writer or director is currently attached, but the studio is hoping to further adapt the musical from a contemporary perspective…