‘Beauty and the Beast’: Luke Evans Is Set to Play the Villain Gaston, Dan Stevens as the Prince/Beast in Disney's Live-Action Adaptation of the Classic Fairy Tale

8:30 AM EST 3/5/2015

Luke Evans, 35, recently seen on the big-screen in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and Dracula Untold is in negotiations to play the villain Gaston in Disney’s live-action remake of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, which will have Bill Condon as director and Evan Spiliotopoulos and Steve Chbosky as scriptwriters, according to Variety.Read more