Filming for Disney's live action retelling of Beauty and the Beast is currently underway in London. Working on the score for the film is Alan Menken, eight time Oscar winner.

Menken won two Academy Awards for the 1991 animated classic film, and spoke recently at Lincoln Center about two of the three new songs that he and Sir Tim Rice have composed for the production.

Menken stated that he was not able to fit in any songs from the Broadway production of the film, but was able to get in some of the classic numbers from the movie.

"It's the songs from the movie, we did not fit in any songs [from the Broadway show]," he confirmed.

"The song I would have fit in from the Broadway show is 'If I Can't Love Her,' but the Beast's moment in the film is a much later moment, it would not be 'if I can't love her,' it's 'I love her but...I'm letting her go.' That lyric wouldn't really work with that music. So we wrote another song called 'Forever More,' like 'I now know what love is.' There's another song called 'Days in the Sun' which is a lullaby as all the objects and characters living in the castle are going to sleep they're all singing about remembering before the spell. I think it's gonna be a wonderful movie," Menken was found saying.

Walt Disney Pictures will release the movie on March 17, 2017.