Enchanted (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Kevin Lima |
| Produced by | Christopher Chase Barry Josephson Sunil Perkash Jason Reed Barry Sonnenfeld Ezra Swerdlow |
| Written by | Bill Kelly |
| Starring | Amy Adams Patrick Dempsey James Marsden Susan Sarandon Idina Menzel Timothy Spall Rachel Covey |
| Music by | Alan Menken Stephen Schwartz |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 21, 2007 |
| Language | English |
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Enchanted is a Disney film currently in production. A tentative release date is November 21, 2007. It uses both traditional animation and live action.
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[edit] Plot
Giselle (Amy Adams), a beautiful princess, is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid – even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince (James Marsden) back home – she wonders if a storybook view of romance could survive in the real world.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Amy Adams | Giselle |
| Patrick Dempsey | Robert |
| James Marsden | Prince Edward |
| Idina Menzel | Nancy |
| Rachel Covey | Morgan |
| Timothy Spall | Nathaniel |
| Susan Sarandon | Queen Narissa |
| Michaela Conlin | May |
| Matt Servitto | Artie |
| Joseph Siravo | Tony |
| Vicky Lambert | Dancer |
| Edward M. Kelahan | NYC Pedestrian |
[edit] Score and Songs
The film's score and lyrics will be written by the accomplished songwriter and Broadway composer Alan Menken, who has done a number of Walt Disney Pictures films, such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Hercules, and Home on the Range.
Long time collaborator and fellow Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Wicked) is also contributing some lyrics.
It has been confirmed that six songs have so far been worked at, and are being continuously polished. Apparently, according to recent reports, only five will appear in the finished film. They will be homages to the traditional style of Disney music, rather than parodies as previously reported.[citation needed]
[edit] Filming Style
The film will begin with animation and switch to live action. The fairy tale scenes in the film will be done in 2-D animation, as a tribute to the past Disney fairy tale films such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
This will be the first feature-length Disney live-action/traditional animation hybrid since The Lizzie McGuire Movie; traditionally-animated characters will not share the screen with live-action characters. This may be because of an animated character turning into a live-action character in the real world. It is also the first theatrically released Disney American film to feature traditional animation since Pooh's Heffalump Movie.
The ten minutes of traditional animation will not be done in house (most of Disney's 2D animation artists were laid off after the CG boom of the late 90's), but by a smaller Pasadena-based company called James Baxter Animation, started by legendary lead animator James Baxter. Baxter had previously worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation, bringing to life many memorable animated characters like Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Belle (Beauty and the Beast) and Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame). Various pictures of the animated designs and segments have surfaced on the Internet. In December 2006, Animated-News.com reveals in a short article several designs of the animated characters. As of January 2007, Disney's "Movie Surfers" show offered a brief glimpse of the film's animated segment during the 2007 film preview.
[edit] Trivia
It is rumored that the film's heroine Giselle will be an addition to the Disney Princess franchise due to a doll of the character revealed at the 2007 Toy Fair with the Disney Princess logo on the box. If true, this also may mean that there could be further animated segments featuring Giselle as a part of the upcoming Disney Princess Enchanted Tales DVD series (a series of DVDs, all of which will feature new animated stories starring the Disney Princesses). However, no direct confirmation (verbally, written or otherwise) has been made on this assumption.
[edit] Promotional Pictures
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[edit] External links
- Enchanted at the Internet Movie Database
- Character Design images from the animated portion of the film.
- Movie Surfers' brief glimpse of animated and live action portion of the film
- Jim Hill Media reports on screening of short clips in the film
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| Music and Lyrics: Godspell • Pippin • The Magic Show • The Baker's Wife • Working • Personals • The Trip • Children of Eden • Wicked • Thiruvasagam Lyrics: Mass • Rags Recordings: Reluctant Pilgrim • Uncharted Territory Films: Pocahontas (lyrics) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (lyrics) • The Prince of Egypt • Enchanted (lyrics) Television: Geppetto |
