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Spellbound follows the adventures of Ellian, the
tenacious young daughter of the rulers of Lumbria who must go on a daring
quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms
her parents into monsters. Spellbound is directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek)
with original score from EGOT-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and
the Beast) and lyrics by Glenn Slater (Tangled). A Netflix Film
from Skydance Animation, Spellbound boasts an all-star voice cast
led by Rachel Zegler, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane, Tituss
Burgess, with Javier Bardem, and Nicole Kidman. Spellbound is
written by Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin and Julia Miranda and
produced by John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Bruce Anderson
for Skydance Animation.
Director Vicky Jenson on working with Rachel Zegler:
I can't think of Ellian without thinking of Rachel
Zegler. She just IS Ellian. She's got such a wonderful, charismatic
personality, very real and fresh. She's a great actress and a stunning
singer. When we met and started working with her she was just down for it,
down to play, to try anything. Even in her earliest demos of the songs she
was weeping, she was laughing, she just brought everything and left nothing
on the table. A lot of what she did in those early days is still in the
movie, it was just that good. Rachel is one of a kind. She
simply has everything.
More from the Director, Vicky Jenson:
Mythology and fairytales have always been part of my
life and upbringing. My father, the son of immigrant Romanian parents, was
an aspiring writer and my mother, raised in Costa Rica by literary parents,
taught us to love the arts and old family ghost stories. Storytelling runs
deep in our families!
Spellbound is about what it is that really makes
a family. Like any timeless myth or lasting fairytale, I believe the
meaning reaches even further than the specifics of this family’s dynamic.
It speaks to kids and their parents and the kinds of alienation that can
happen between them as well as the steps we have to take toward each other,
how we can weather it together, to come through to the other side with
better understanding.
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