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atlanticaunderthesea wrote: Oh my gosh though, I just thought ! Could he have meant they start recording LINES soon ?! For the animated part ?! As that would take a few years to get the animation done !!!

Q: Have you heard anything about Enchanted 2?

Alan Menken: I’ve heard things but there's nothing yet. I don’t know much about what’s happening with that. Honestly, I don’t know what the studio wants to do next. I presume there will be some future projects for me to work on. I love doing that, I really do. But I’m not frustrated that this isn’t one of them. At the moment I have a lot of stage things happening and I’m busy enough with that, so I really don’t need more on my plate.

Q: What about ENCHANTED 2? It's at least being bandied about, right? It's on IMDB.

Alan Menken: Yeah. It's being bandied about. But, beyond bandying... (Laughs.) There's nothing real yet.

Q: Julie Andrews wasn't sure either! I'd assume she would be asked to return.

Alan Menken: Aww, really? She was so wonderful. We need to have her do more than just narrate next time!

Alan Menken: I came from theatre, of course. But yes, right now, I have nothing in the pipeline for Disney.

Q: Nothing at all?

Alan Menken: I'm on [stage musicals] Sister Act, Leap Of Faith. I'm developing a musical. An MGM-RKO idea.

Q: From scratch?

Alan Menken: Yeah. It's an original idea I'm working on, with David Zippel. With Disney, whether there's going to be a sequel to Enchanted? Right now? No.

Q: Would you like there to be? You're not a sequel person, really.

Alan Menken: I've never had a sequel. That's true. I don't know what's going to be. But honestly, I'm fine with or without there being more!

Q: I think it does! So, are ENCHANTED 2 and DESPICABLE US still happening relatively soon?

Julie Andrews: (Big Laugh). I have no idea, I have no idea!

Q: On IMDB it says both are in-development!

Julie Andrews: Wait, by ENCHANTED 2 do you mean THE PRINCESS DIARIES sequel?

Q: No, I mean ENCHANTED 2. You provided the narration for ENCHANTED!

Julie Andrews: Oh, yes, only the very, very beginning of it, really. And the ending. You're right. I did. Yes, they probably are doing that. But, I didn't know about it. So, you're the first to tell me.

Q: So, I broke the news, I broke the story to Dame Andrews herself!

Julie Andrews: Yes. Yes, you did! (Laughs.)

Q: They aren't scheduled until 2013 anyway. You have time!

Julie Andrews: That's if I'm asked. Mind you, as a narrator I'm not sure if they'll need me this time. So, from your lips to someone's ears, Pat!

Q: I mentioned to Julie Andrews the notion of a duet with you in ENCHANTED 2 - would you like to do that?

Idina Menzel: No way! Julie Andrews knows who I am? (Laughs.) You know, that would be great, because in the second movie my character is in the animated world, so maybe I can do a song in that world and we can do something together.

Q: Can you tell me any news about that project?

Idina Menzel: Not so much, I just know that it's in the works. Amy [Adams] just had a baby, so I'm not sure how far along they are with that.

Q: They're developing Enchanted 2. What do you know and how excited are you to go back to that?

James Marsden: Yeah, I read that. As somebody who was involved in the first one, you just get your information by reading these things. So, I know very little about it. But I'm excited about the idea of doing it. I've learned in the past not to say anything concrete about what's happening with a project - and that would just be a lie anyway because I really don't know what's going on with it - but I hope they get together before we're all are in our forties and we're playing Disney princes and princesses with graying hair. It would sort of negate the whole purpose of being these quintessential perfect people, you know?

Q: “Enchanted” is the other project of yours that gets sequel rumors from time to time.

James Marsden: I don’t know. I think that the clock is ticking on that one. Amy [Adams] are both saying, “If there’s going to be a sequel, we’re not getting any younger.” Since we play sort of ageless animated characters. Hopefully we do. That was something really special and I’d love to come back and do another. I’ve heard the same things you’ve heard. There’s a script out there somewhere and there’s talk of it, but I never believe it until I see the script and know that we’re actually making that film. So I don’t know. Too many eggs in that basket.

"We all hoped it would happen," Marsden told me the other day while promoting today's DVD release of his most recent flick, Straw Dogs. "I don't understand why they never did it. It was a very successful movie...But at some point when the gray hairs start coming, you can't really play the quintessential animated prince anymore. Amy and I were like, 'If we're going to do it, we should do it before we're 40.'" They don't have have too much time left—Adams is 37 and Marsden is 38. "If it happens, great!" Marsden said. "If not, what are you going to do?"

[Amy Adams] on being surprised about there not being an Enchanted sequel: "I don’t know. I haven’t thought a lot about it because I loved the first film so much. So I always just accept it that if that is the only one, then I feel like it is a really great story. It has a beginning, middle, and end. I’m really comfortable with that. If they have a script then I am here. I haven’t seen anything, though. I don’t know if I am surprised by that. I really loved the first one and I think it stands alone."

avonleastories95 wrote:A sequel, eh? I thought we were against them? I think this one might be good and do well.....
but if it does not,
I'LL HAVE TO KISS ENGIMAWING'S COPY OF WINNIE THE POOH AND THE SEARCH OF THE LACE COLLAR!

atlanticaunderthesea wrote:Could he have meant they start recording LINES soon ?! For the animated part ?! As that would take a few years to get the animation done !!!

SWillie! wrote:

avonleastories95 wrote:A sequel, eh? I thought we were against them? I think this one might be good and do well.....
but if it does not,
I'LL HAVE TO KISS ENGIMAWING'S COPY OF WINNIE THE POOH AND THE SEARCH OF THE LACE COLLAR!

We just discovered that it's not happening. At least not right now.

ajmrowland wrote:I get the feeling this sequel would've cheapened the original.

Who else is actually relieved that it's not happening?

ajmrowland wrote:yes, exactly.

Here, a lot of us condemn DTV sequels, and yet whenever a theatrical sequel or Live-Action Remake comes around, a lot of us endorse it.

I'm not pointing any fingers here, but........

We just discovered that it's not happening. At least not right now.

ajmrowland wrote:I get the feeling this sequel would've cheapened the original.

Who else is actually relieved that it's not happening?

Disney's Divinity wrote:I was really only looking forward to a possible sequel for more Menken, Amy Adams, and 2D animation.