Spellbound

[Sotiris]

Teaser poster and teaser trailer.

[Farerb]

It's supposed to have music by Alan Menken and they decide to put a Journey song instead

Netflix don't know how to market.

The movie itself looks like a Modern Disney knock off.

[blackcauldron85]

Her little purple sidekick made me smile. They went hard with the John Lasseter promotion in the beginning of the trailer, huh?

I don't have Netflix so probably won't be seeing it...even after watching the trailer I'm kind of meh on it. I didn't love the YouTube comment that came up saying "Why does this look better than Wish?"

[Jules]

I didn't love the YouTube comment that came up saying "Why does this look better than Wish?"

I am no fan of Wish, but I disagree this looks better.

It looks just like the next homogenised, boring, mainstream animated feature with cringe dialogue and an awkward female lead ripped off straight from WDAS' recent successes. And it seems the movie expects me to get excited to see how far this girl will "go for family."

I am surprised the trailer didn't also remind us of the sacrosanct importance of "following our hearts" and "being ourselves."

Hopefully, this is just a case of a bad trailer, and the movie itself is actually excellent. (It'd better be. Alan Menken's music deserves a worthy movie.)

[D82]

TV spot, merch and book covers:

Spellbound Netflix dolls and toys
https://www.youloveit.com/dolls/3917-sp ... -toys.html

Spellbound Princess Ellian fashion doll from Spin Master
https://www.youloveit.com/dolls/4121-sp ... aster.html



Source: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Making-Spell ... ref=sr_1_3


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Source: https://www.amazon.es/Spellbound-Sing-A ... 1503773728


Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/ ... 0794452544


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Here are also photos of a leaflet handed out at Annecy and a crew T-shirt.


The cardboard cutout standee below, from the film's wrap party, gives us a better look at Ellian's dress. It reminds me of those dresses with very wide skirts from the 18th century or so. I've looked it up and, apparently, they're called panniers and originated in Spain in the 17th century. Like it happened with Wish, the art direction of this film is partly inspired by Spanish culture, so it would make sense if that was the inspiration for the dress.

By the way, the carriage featured in the trailer and in one of the playsets looks like a clear homage or reference to Disney's Cinderella, doesn't it? I'm a bit surprised by it since this is not a Disney production.