Emma Watson Will Star as Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Harry Potter alum and international sweetheart Emma Watson has been cast as Belle in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast feature. The movie will be directed by Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Parts 1 and 2) and doesn't yet have a release date. We can expect this to be in the same vein as Disney's latest live-action fairy-tale interpretations like 2014's Maleficent and this year's Cinderella. Listen, we're not saying we predicted this, but we kind of predicted this. Read Emma Watson's announcement below!