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31 January 2017updated 06 Aug 2021 2:17pm

Did you spot the one big departure in the new Beauty and the Beast trailer?

The clue is in the library.

By Anna Leszkiewicz

Disney hasn’t had any trouble drumming up interest for their latest live-action remake of an animated classic. The trailer for the new Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, broke records back in November when it was viewed an astonishing 127 million times in its first 24 hours – even though the new trailer suggests that the new film is almost identical to its predecessor.

That trailer showed strikingly similar music, lines, costumes, sets and even cinematography to the animated original.

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