According to Deadline, Disney is working on an adaptation of the classic Arabian folktale collection, One Thousand and One Nights, for the big screen. The report also states that the live-action film will be a fantasy and sci-fi combo.
Arash Amel, the scriptwriter who penned the Disney Plus movie, Rise, which is about NBA basketballer Giannis Antetokoumpo and his family, will write the movie and also serve as the executive producer. Amel also wrote the 2018 biographical war drama, A Private War, which starred Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander, and Stanley Tucci, and earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and Best Original Song.
At the moment, Disney is keeping the movie's plot details under wraps. However, the film will tell an original tale and will be a standalone IP. In other words, it will not be based on any existing Disney production from the same source, like the Aladdin franchise.
One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights, is a collection of Arabian tales written over several centuries by different authors, translators, and scholars. The stories it contains come from different parts of Asia, as well as North Africa. During the Islamic Golden Age, the work was compiled in Arabic. However, some of the tales in the collection, like Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, were later additions to the original compilation.