User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-1659929-20140416175156/@comment-1518158-20140418173934

If they made it animated, it might seem like a canon continuation of the original movies, which it clearly isn't supposed to be; rather, it's supposed to be more of a mix of Disney Channel's standard high school stuff and the more classic Disney fairy tale material, which is why they probably went for a live-action approach. Plus, DC hasn't made animated DCOMs not based on TV shows in forever.

More than likely, the story will just be centered on the actual descendants and the parents will just receive small roles and/or cameos. Though I do hope they recreate those characters and their costumes faithfully, and a little fanservice would be nice too (having the parent characters interacting with each other, obviously). Hopefully it has a good budget too.