In 2017, Tucci directed and wrote the drama film "Final Portrait". The same year, Tucci played the role of the composer Maestro Cadenza in the live-action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", co-starring with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. Tucci also returned to the "Transformers" film series by portraying Merlin in "". Furthermore, Tucci played the husband of Dame Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge, opposite Emma Thompson in "The Children Act", based on the book of the same name by Ian McEwan.