There is so much driving on Vicky Jenson’s upcoming musical animation Spellbound a few princess on a mission to reverse a spell that has reworked her beloved king and queen dad and mom into rampaging monsters.
The movie is the third animated function for Skydance Animation after Luck and Blush and its most bold manufacturing up to now because it makes an attempt to develop into an organization rivaling its head of animation’s John Lasseter’s former dwelling of Pixar.
The work additionally marks Jenson’s first main animation function in twenty years, after Shark Tale (2004) and Oscar-winning Shrek (2001).
Jenson and the movie’s Head of Story Brian Pimental hit the Annecy International Film Festival on Tuesday to present a Work in Progress presentation.
“We’re really excited to finally bring you a peak into Spellbound. Sky Animation is a pretty cool place to work. One of the reasons is that they really want to do stories that resonate and really mean something. That’s what drew me,” stated Jenson.
The bulk of the animation is being finished out of Sky Animation’s Madrid-based unit, which has fed into look of the movie’s fantasy kingdom backdrop of Lambria, impressed by the “architecture of ancient Spain with its Moorish arches and domed rooftops”, she revealed.
The excessive profile voice forged options Rachel Zegler because the princess and Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem as her dad and mom in addition to John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, and Nathan Lane in different key supporting roles.
Jenson revealed that the manufacturing had approached Zegler previous to her reaching fame in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
“I kind of like to think we discovered her because we saw her videos on YouTube around the same time that Steven Spielberg did and he cast her… But we were right there too”, she joked. “She is just fantastic. She’s a delight, she’s funny and such a pro.”
A spotlight of the Annecy presentation was the disclosing of originql songs written by long-time collaborators composer Alan Menkel and lyricist Glen Slater, whose previous cinematic credit embrace Oscar and Golden Globe nominated hellot I See The Light hit from Tangled.
“You guys are going to be the very first to hear several of our songs,” stated Jenson introduced to applause. “They’re at the demo stage. Most of them are with the final singers, including Rachel Zegler. A couple of them are Alan Menkel’s actual voice which no-one ever gets to hear.”
“These are completely original songs. We haven’t heard anything from Alan Menkel and Glen Slater in a long time. A lot of great movies have come out recently but a lot of it’s a couple of decades old. I’m really excited we’re going to have brand new original music.”
The presentation unveiled an enormous opening quantity setting the scene for the story in addition to a nostalgic ballad during which the princess laments the lack of her dad and mom as she knew them and her previous life.
The latter has the identical heartstring pulling potential of I See The Light to interrupt out as a success in its personal proper, judging by the enthusiastic reponse from the presentation viewers.
“After six years on the movie, it makes me want to cry,” stated Jenson.
Spellbound can be distributed by Apple below its multi-year cope with Sky Animation however there isn’t a information on launch date or on whether or not the need get a theatrical launch as but.
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