Following in the footsteps of such successful fairy-tale rebrands as Cruella, Wicked, and Malevolent, Disney is looking to reshape the public perception of Beauty And The Beast‘s resident bully. Per Deadline, Disney will finally tell the secret origins of Gaston, the villain of Beauty And The Beast, in an image-rehabilitating live-action movie. The latest draft of the screenplay comes from David Callaham, who, before becoming a regular writer on various superhero properties, including penning versions of Ant-Man, Wonder Woman 1984, Shang-Chi, and Across The Spider-Verse, was best known for introducing us to Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables. Deadline didn’t offer any plot details for the film. Still, we have a feeling it’ll revolve around the untold tragedy of Gaston’s life, retroactively making this despicable scallywag’s behavior justified, like Cruella, whose puppy-killing ways we now understand because a dog pushed her mother off a cliff.

The outlet reports that Luke Evans, who played Gaston in the 2017 live-action remake, will not be returning to the role. We also expect Disney to drop the character’s gay undertones that caused a minor controversy in 2017. Disney would hate to force Snoop Dogg into another instance of “talking to his grandkids.” Evans was expected to reprise the role for a TV series, Deadline continues, but a singing, French push broom swept those plans away. Still, fans annoyed by the recasting will soon be able to make their own Luke Evans-Gaston slop using the magic of AI.