Take a Gander at Will Smith’s Genie in New Teaser for Aladdin

Remember when those initial promo photos for Aladdin were released and people wondered why Genie wasn’t blue?

The premiere of the film’s new “special look” teaser during Sunday’s broadcast of the 2019 Grammys has your answer.

The latest teaser for the Guy Ritchie-helmed, live-adaptation of the 1992 Disney animated film revealed Will Smith’s portrayal of Genie in his final form. And boy, is he blue …

Smith previously told Entertainment Weekly that instead of trying to compete with the original Genie, famously voice-acted by the late Robin Williams, he plans to personalize the role and inject the character with some “hip-hop flavor.”

Smith said:

I started to feel confident that I could deliver something that was an homage to Robin Williams but was musically different. Just the flavor of the character would be different enough and unique enough that it would be in a different lane, versus trying to compete.

Watch the film’s new teaser, and see how Twitter reacted to it, below. You can revisit a previous teaser here and catch up on everything we know about Aladdin so far here.

Will Smith genie is what appears in my room when I have sleep paralysis pic.twitter.com/NzMDOgvkkz

— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) February 11, 2019

pic.twitter.com/k9CbPMgOY4

— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) February 11, 2019

re: live action simba: “take my money”
re: live action genie: “remove my eyes immediately i never want to see again” pic.twitter.com/88EjDtJg71

— David Farrier (@davidfarrier) February 11, 2019

is the genie blue & black or white & gold? what color genie do YOU see? pic.twitter.com/qFXHzLmruX

— guterman (@danguterman) February 11, 2019

Why does Will Smith’s Genie look like he’s a thumb person from Spy Kids

— Jackson McHenry (@McHenryJD) February 11, 2019