Disney is developing 'Genies' a live-action comedy prequel to ist 1992 animated hit "Alaadin".
Damian shannon and mark swift are writing the script for the prequel , which will center an a fenie trapped in Aladdin's lamp .
The original Aladdin story is in The Book Of One Thousand and One Nights ( The Arabian Nights ) , in which a sarcerer persuades the young Aladdin to retrieve a powerful oil lamp from a magic cave