Will Smith is stepping into the shoes of the Genie, originally filled by comic genius Robin Williams, so there is a lot riding on Smith's performance.
Here is the first look at the film in a teaser trailer which gives away absolutely nothing, but it does show briefly the parallels director Ritchie has managed between this and the 1993 animated feature. Give it a watch below.
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.