Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast has reportedly signed Bill Condon as its director.

Rumors swirled back in April that Bill Condon was interested in the film. Condon is no stranger to the movie musical world having directed the Academy Award winning Dreamgirls, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards. He also penned the screen version of Chicago, which was nominated for a whopping 13 Academy Awards, including one for Condon for writing.

Joining Condon, according to Variety, will be screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos. Spiliotopoulos has penned multiple Disney adaptations.

Presently, Condon is directing another musical, Side Show, only on stage this time. Side Show, debuted on Broadway back in 1997, and unfortunately closed quickly despite stellar reviews. It struggled to find a niche competing against shows like The Lion King King and Jekyll and Hyde that launched the same year. The show went on to have a cult following, and has been quite popular in regional theatre.

Condon and his team revamped the Side Show which had its first run in California at the La Jolla Playhouse. It opens on the East Coast next week at the Kennedy center in Washington D.C. for a limited run. According to Playbill, the show has aspirations to transfer to Broadway. Playbill critics also commented that, “Condon (Dreamgirls) has given new dramatic shape to the pop-driven musical that has a score by Krieger (Dreamgirls) and Russell (Elegies for Angels…), who also wrote the book. This new, darker approach to the material, which incorporates new songs as well as additional biographical details of the Hilton twins’ life and historical figures of the era…”

Condon, in recent years, is perhaps best known for directing the last two installments in the Twilight Saga franchise, Breaking Dawn Part 1, and Part 2. He is also working on a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, A Slight Trick of the Mind which stars Ian McKellen and Laura Linney.

It will be interesting to see what Condon does with the original source material. Will he expand it utilizing the extra material that is present in the Broadway version of the show, or will he stick to the film version?