Disney has met with Sabrina Carpenter about potentially starring in the live-action Tangled remake.

It was confirmed in December 2024 that Disney is developing a live-action remake of Tangled. The original Tangled was released in 2010 by Walt Disney Pictures and is loosely based on the Rapunzel folktale by the Brothers Grimm.

Michael Gracey is attached to direct the remake, while Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is writing the script.

Is Sabrina Carpenter starring in Disney’s Tangled remake?

According to Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider, Disney has met with a number of people about potentially starring in the Tangled remake, including Carpenter. Her casting is not official and, as Sneider reports, “If she signs on for any new movie, expect it to be an edgy one, not Disney fare.”

Having said that, Carpenter and Disney do have a history, as she played Maya Hart in the company’s Girl Meets World show, among several other projects. She’s since largely redefined her career and is now more widely recognized for her pop music.

The future of the Tangled remake may also depend on Lilo & Stitch’s box office as Disney’s Snow White, which was released in United States theaters earlier this month, underperformed. That movie, which is a live-action reimagining of 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has so far made around $143.1 million at the global box office.

Gracey made his feature film directorial debut in 2017 with The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman. He followed that up with Pink: All I Know So Far, a 2021 documentary about the singer-songwriter, before then making the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, which was released wide in the United States in January 2025.

The voice cast of the original Tangled, which is currently available to stream on Disney+, includes Mandy Moore as Rapunzel, Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider, and Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel.