Excitement levels are peaking for the new live-action Aladdin film ... Your suspicions are correct: Iago, Jafar’s sarcastic, bad-tempered parrot, is not appearing in the remake.

didn’t seem to matter as Aladdin’s pals, Babak (Jake Letts), Omar (Nathan Levy) and Kassim (Colt Prattles) filled in the comedic gap nicely. In addition, Jafar’s wise-cracking parrot Iago in ...