In 1992, Disney’s animated Aladdin hit the big screen, and audiences fell in love with the adventures of an orphan—the “Diamond in the Rough”—who crossed paths with a flying carpet, a powerful genie, ...

The new live-action Disney movie, “Aladdin,” is based on another Disney movie, the animated “Aladdin,” from 1992. And that was based, in the loosest possible way, on “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” one ...