Flynn Rider & Prince Charming Will NOT Appear in Into the Woods Film After All

For a moment, one peculiar passing moment, we were collectively anxious over a questionable change made to the upcoming Disney film adaptation of Into the Woods. Earlier today, Broadway.com reported that select character names in the movie had potentially been changed to reflect their Disney counterparts. A Disney spokesperson has confirmed that character names in the film are indeed faithful to the original names in the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical. The incorrect names “were published online in error and have now been corrected.”

Among the incorrect names that were listed on the Disney official website were Flynn Rider (of Tangled) notoriety instead of Rapunzel’s Prince, Prince Charming in the place of Cinderella’s Prince and Lady Tremaine, the moniker of Cinderella’s stepmother in the Disney property.

This is just the latest in a collection of changes that had been reported, whether confirmed or not, that were later reversed. In June, an article in The New Yorker cited a master class conversation with Sondheim to report that the song “Any Moment” had been cut, as had Cinderella’s Prince’s tryst with the Baker’s Wife. The Tony and Oscar-winning composer later clarified in a statement that “the Prince’s dalliance is still in the movie, and so is ‘Any Moment.’” Additionally, a new song that was written for the Witch, played by Meryl Streep on screen, has been cut in post-production.

Along with Streep, the Rob Marshall film, set to release on Christmas Day, stars James Corden as the Baker, Emily Blunt as the Baker’s Wife, Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince, Billy Magnussen as Rapunzel’s Prince, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, as well as Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Johnny Depp, MacKenzie Mauzy, Lilla Crawford and Daniel Huttlestone.