Disney has had a busy week with their D23 Expo this week rolling out teasers for upcoming Pixar movies and showing off models of the upcoming Star Wars Land theme park, but 90’s kids may freak out over the news this week of the cast for the upcoming live-action version of the animated classic ‘Aladdin’. Yes, it will be a whole new world with several new young actors scoring big parts with some blockbusters heavyweights in supporting roles. Yes, I had to get the ‘whole new world’ pun in there, what do you expect?

“Aladdin will be played by a young actor named Mena Massoud,” Walt Disney Studios production president Sean Bailey announced at the D23 Expo on Saturday. “Jasmine will be played by Naomi Scott.”Massoud currently can be in seen Amazon’s ‘Jack Ryan’ series, he is from Canada but was born in Egypt. Playing Naomi Scott already has experience stepping into a film with established expectations, as she was one of the Power Rangers in the recent big screen reboot.

The biggest name in the cast is Will Smith as the Genie, who has a proven record of hits in the past but has had a recent series of flops most notably the dud that was 2013’s  ‘After Earth’. Hopping into a Disney project that will have a walk-up audience is a soft home run for the former ‘Fresh Prince of Bell-Air’. Still it’s not easy to fill the shoes of the late great Robin Williams, but you can’t deny Smith has a larger-than-life personality to deliver for this over-the-top role.

Oh that’s not enough Aladdin news, check out this interview from WCIU with the cast of the Broadway musical version which is currently running in Chicaogo.