Apparently Jane Fonda will voice the dragon in Luck.D82 wrote:Apple in Talks to Pick Up Skydance Animated Movies 'Luck,' 'Spellbound'
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https://twitter.com/SlaterLyrics/status ... 2bdsg&s=19Glenn Slater wrote:So happy our secret is finally out! Wait until you hear @rachelzegler singing these songs…absolutely thrilling!
I read that these creatures are her parents and that something or someone turned them into monsters.Sotiris wrote:First look.
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Close-up. Not fond of the protagonist's character design. It's too caricatured for a lead.
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Source: https://deadline.com/2022/06/nicole-kid ... 235049176/The upcoming musical from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation will have Kidman voicing Ellsmere, the kind and just, yet hyper-precise Queen of Lumbria, with Bardem as Lumbria’s boastful yet big-hearted King, Solon. Together, they are the parents of Princess Ellian (Zegler), who they join on her daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms them into monsters and threatens to cover Lumbria in darkness forever. Lithgow and Lewis will voice Princess Ellian’s royal advisors, Minister Bolinar and Minister Nazara Prone, with Lane and De Shields as The Oracles of the Sun and Moon that Ellian seeks out to break the spell on her parents and the kingdom. Additional characters aiding Ellian throughout her journey include the young nomad Callan, voiced by Fisher.
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235186710/Skydance Animation’s next film, Spellbound, will be a musical. To compose its songs, Lasseter suggested marquee Disney composer Menken, who has won eight competitive Oscars, the most of any living person. The film, which was once going to be titled The Unbreakable Spell, revolves around Princess Ellian, voiced by Rachel Zegler, and her parents the King and Queen (Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman), who inhabit a cursed kingdom. Jenson began directing from a script by Linda Woolverton (1991’s Beauty and the Beast). Upon Lasseter’s arrival, Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin, of the 2020 live-action Disney film Mulan, joined the project as additional writers.
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0 ... ongwritersQ: Spellbound, tell me everything!
Alan Menken: I can't tell you that much. Number one because it is an ever-evolving project. This is a very unusual story. It has a very ambitious, central theme. I am not going to talk about the central theme because it's all hidden in a fairy tale which involves a spell. But it's a theme that affects all of us in a contemporary way. I'm collaborating with [lyricist] Glenn Slater on the songs. Chris Montan, who was the head of music and animation at Disney from The Little Mermaid, to Tangled and Frozen is the musical supervisor. For me, it's a great return to work again in animation. Some of the team have never written musicals before. So there's been a lot of work in trying to make it more of a traditional musical and people pushing me to be more ambitious in a certain way. We are still working on it. We score in the fall. We are recording with the artists who are doing it: Rachel Zegler, Javier Bardem, and Nicole Kidman. I am going to stop there.
It probably is. Nice find! I also have some concept art and some other images saved which I planned to post, but there are always new things to share or comment about and I keep postponing this. I'll try to post them later today.Woodrow Pride wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 12:04 pm Apparently this is a leak of a storyboard that shows baby Ellian?
It's true the plot sounds a lot like Raya's. Like Katzenberg before him, I think Lasseter is bringing the ideas being developed at WDAS when he left to his new studio. It's even more evident looking at the concept art. The kingdom on the left in the fifth image reminds me a lot of the land of Heart, with the green domes and water everywhere, while the other kingdom is like a mix between the lands of Tail (the colors and rocks) and Fang (the architecture of the castle). There's even a bridge that connects both lands.Disney's Divinity wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:25 pmReading this back now after we've found out so much more about Raya, doesn't this seem very similar thematically to Raya? A divided kingdom, a warrior princess's coming-of-age story and journey to repair her broken world, the protagonist's family being personally affected (Raya's father) by the battle between light and darkness (dragons v. shadow creatures, the Druun).Sotiris wrote:The script is said to center on a teenager who comes of age using her magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom.
If only *Raya* had been a musical with Alan Menken involved, but otherwise I don't expect this to be in Raya's league. We'll see.
Interesting they're making a Jack and the Beanstalk movie; if Gigantic had come out, I wonder if they still would be...Variety wrote:Apple and Skydance Animation released but one film, “Luck,” and mutually agreed that “Spellbound’ was not a fit for Apple’s expanding narrative slate, thus necessitating its move to Netflix.
