Frozen II - Il Segreto di Arendelle, Walt Disney Animation Studios Opzioni

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Un po' sui nuovi personaggi del film:

Dal sito / Film:

‘Frozen 2’ Trailer: Elsa and Anna Go on a Quest to Save Arendelle

Disney has debuted a new Frozen 2 trailer just in time for fall, a season that will be a key element in the sequel to the wildly popular 2013 fantasy-adventure movie. Leaves are a-swirling and wreaking havoc on the kingdom of Arendelle in Frozen 2, leading sisters Elsa and Anna to embark on a quest to save their kingdom and unearth the secrets to Elsa’s powers. Along the way, they meet a host of new characters, who are revealed along with their voice actors in the new Frozen 2 trailer.

Frozen 2 ups the ante in as many ways as possible: more action, higher stakes, and an even more star-studded voice cast in addition to returning stars Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad. The new additions include Alfred Molina as the voice of Elsa and Anna’s father, Martha Plimpton as a queen of a nomadic tribe, and Jason Ritter as a character named Ryder — a name that Disney is apparently fond of, though I doubt he’ll reach the dashing heights of Tangled‘s Flynn Rider.

See the new character descriptions and voice cast below.

KING AGNARR – The son of King Runeard, King Agnarr is married to Queen Iduna, and is Anna and Elsa’s father. King Agnarr loves his family, and would do anything to ensure his daughters’ wellbeing and safety. Alfred Molina lends his voice to King Agnarr.
YELANA – The unspoken leader of the nomadic Northuldra. She is fiercely protective of her family and community but is known to soften when people show an understanding of nature and their environment. Martha Plimpton was called on to bring Yelana to life.
HONEYMAREN – A member of the Northuldra, Honeymaren is a true free spirit and wants nothing more than to bring peace to the enchanted forest. She is bold and brave, with a reverence for the magic of nature. Rachel Matthews provides the voice of Honeymaren.
RYDER – Eager and fun, Honeymaren’s brother Ryder embraces life with optimism. Ryder’s love of reindeer might just rival Kristoff’s – but unlike Kristoff, Ryder has never roamed the great plains outside of the Enchanted Forest. He longs to embrace the world and venture beyond the magical mist. Jason Ritter lends his voice to Ryder.
BRUNI – Curious and cute, this salamander inhabits the Enchanted Forest. Though shy at first, Bruni can’t help but be drawn to Elsa’s icy magic and enjoys the cool snowflake treats she creates.

Frozen 2 is directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, with songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez composing all-new songs. Frozen 2 opens in theaters on November 22, 2019.

Why was Elsa born with magical powers? What truths about the past await Elsa as she ventures into the unknown to the enchanted forests and dark seas beyond Arendelle? The answers are calling her but also threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she’ll face a dangerous but remarkable journey. In “Frozen,” Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. In “Frozen 2,” she must hope they are enough.

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Dalla bambola di Elsa, ecco un estratto della canzone "Into the Unknown":

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Inoltre, dal sito The Sven Queen:

How do you know that Olaf is getting another solo? And I really hope you’re right and Disney doesn’t do my boy Kristoff dirty again.... that man is MEANT TO SING OK!
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Well, he at least is getting a solo & will be in the group numbers so, Kristoff isn’t getting played too dirty.

As for Olaf, someone found a doll of Olaf with this on the box:




* Olaf avrà una canzone solista: "When I'm Older".


Ecco l'elenco delle canzoni conosciute sino ad ora (non si sa ancora il titolo del singolo di Kristoff):

1. "All Is Found" (Iduna/Anna)
2. "Some Things Never Change" (ensemble)
3. "Into the Unknown" (Elsa)
4. "Show Yourself" (Elsa)
5. "The Next Right Thing" (Anna)
6. "When I'm Older" (Olaf)
7. Kristoff solo

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Immagine tratta da un libro di Elsa bambina con la mamma, la Regina Iduna:

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Poster Internazionale:

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SPOILER!!!!!

Mettiamo le immagini intanto è quello che è già stato detto sull'incipit del film, quindi molto spoiler non è ma se qualcuno non vuol leggere o vedere, non legga e non guardi!!!


Prime quattro pagine di un libretto con un po' di storia dell'inizio del film:

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Nuovo sneak peek

Frozen 2 | "Into The Unknown" Special Look

Into the Uknown

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Sempre incazzate (come non ricordare Rapunzel e quello sguardo da sfida), non sia mai che al mondo d'oggi una princessa Disney appaia dolce e serena. Mamma che odio...
Il pezzo "Into the Unknown" non mi isipira per quel poco che si sente, pare una lagna, spero di essere smentito. EDIT: Anzi no, ne ho sentito un minuto intero nel trailer giapponese. Che virtuosismi vocali! Chissà come se la caverà la Autieri per la nostra versione.

Di seguito un estratto da una nuova canzone per Anna, "The Next Right Thing":

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ed anche di Olaf, "When I Am Older":

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Messaggio modificato da Daydreamer il 30/9/2019, 19:59

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Alessio, lo sguardo di Rapunzel nel manifesto è qualcosa di OSCENO . Il manifesto più brutto della storia del cinema. Mai manifesto più fu orribile e trash. Pensa che ci siamo RIFIUTATI di comprare il dvd per via della cover (che riprende l'osceno manifesto).

Almeno Anna ed Elsa non hanno l'aria di Rapunzel, qui c'è un'aria di sfida, quella di Rapunzel è un'aria da maschiaccio, da "so' femmena, ma tengo le palle", una roba allucinante. Almeno Anna ed Elsa hanno grazia nel manifesto. Non sarà il manifesto più bello che ci sia ma ha uno stile fantasy che ricorda un po' i manifesti di Harry Potter. Ripetiamo, non abbiamo MAI visto un manifesto brutto quanto quello di Rapunzel (forse solo Hercules gli si avvicinava, perchè pure il manifesto confusionario di Hercules era bruttarello forte, meno di quello di Rapunzel, sarà anche perchè Rapunzel è una fiaba e come tale doveva presentare , nel manifesto , una principessa aggraziata, mentre Hercules è un mito su un eroe forzuto e allora ci sta che il manifesto fosse più confusionario. Va poi detto comunque che Hercules almeno per la VHS prima e il DVD poi ha avuto belle cover, differenti dal manifesto cinematografico, Rapunzel invece ha avuto ORRENDE cover che riprendono il manifesto... la conseguenza: i soldi per la vhs prima e il dvd poi di Hercules li abbiamo spesi, quelli per Rapunzel li abbiamo risparmiati).

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Grazie Camaleone per lo special look!


Nuovo special look giapponese con la canzone Into the Unknown:

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Una conversazione con Jennifer Lee, la regista del film:

Dal sito Indiewire:

Directing ‘Frozen 2’ Showed Jennifer Lee the Way to Lead Disney Animation

Lee told IndieWire about her more inclusive, diverse, and collaborative vision, and the secret to unlocking Anna and Elsa in the "Frozen" sequel.

What we do know is the sequel to the Oscar-winning “Frozen” mega-blockbuster continues the adventures of siblings Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) by unlocking the mystery of Elsa’s magical icy power and why their parents died in a shipwreck at sea. It’s all connected to an enchanted forest and the elemental forces of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, animated in a dazzling display of effects and character work, joined together as never before at the studio.

Lee’s vision for the film came together during a research trip to Norway, Finland, and Iceland, where she and her team had a eureka moment about fairy tales and mythology tied to the sisters. “Anna is your perfect fairy tale character,” she said. “She’s an ordinary hero, not magical. She’s optimistic. Whereas Elsa is the perfect mythic character. Mythic characters are magical. They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In fact, the mythic characters often meet a tragic fate and we realized we had two stories going together, mythic story and fairy tale story. In the mythic aspect of it, the fear of that tragic fate is something that Anna’s been worrying about and must protect her sister from.”

Enchanted forests are places of great transformation, but first Elsa wields her icy power to skate across a raging storm during “Frozen 2’s” liberating musical version of “Let It Go” titled “Into the Unknown” (also composed by Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez). It’s where she follows a haunting voice in her head and confronts the first obstacle to understanding the origin of her magic and how she must harness it against the more powerful forces of nature.

Yet while navigating enchanted forests and dark seas on “Frozen 2,” Lee began forging a new vision at Disney very different from Lasseter’s phenomenally successful, if autocratic, reign. She’s embraced greater inclusion, diversity, and collaboration. “We all balance for each other,” Lee said. “When I couldn’t be there in development on ‘Frozen 2,’ there were people juggling, which seemed impossible at times, but doing it, being there to help us the minute we needed it.”

The experience reinforced for Lee the importance of “teamwork and collaboration at the studio,” said Lee. “For me, I’m tired finishing a movie. I’m excited to take a break from the writing process and be helping others — give notes instead of take notes. But what’s been great was we put a plan together for what we wanted to do at the studio together and we’re executing that.”

That means opening up the process of how features are developed and greenlit and expanding the Story Trust with new creative voices. First, Lee’s greatest asset is her writing skill. “I very much believe in a lot of iterations and scripting earlier,” said Lee. “We are also boarding a lot sooner and not putting stuff on the slate until we feel ready, and that’s always the goal, but getting more time to mess around in the wonderful playground before committing. But we’re not compromising and, again, it has to be the best quality and it is never any easier. You can start sooner but still push just as hard.”

And, in the fall, Lee will introduce a group of new directors at Disney. Some have been mentored from within, while others have been recruited elsewhere. After all, that’s how Lee entered Disney when she was brought in by her old writing pal from Columbia University, Phil Johnston, to help out on “Wreck-It Ralph.” That eight-week gig blossomed into Lee’s phenomenal Happily Ever After at Disney. “It’s a wonderful group of filmmakers,” she added, “and some more diverse voices, and that’s exciting [for storytelling] and making our rooms have different perspectives, which is important.”

At D23, Lee introduced “Raya and the Last Dragon” (November 25, 2020), a Southeast Asian fantasy/adventure, directed by former animators Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins (“Big Hero 6,” “Frozen”), produced by Osnat Shurer (“Moana”), and scripted by Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”). It’s about lone warrior Raya (Cassie Steele) from the kingdom of Kumandra (five lands surrounded by a dragon-shaped sea), who teams up with a band of misfits to find the legendary dragon to save their kingdom from dark oppression. They discover Sisu (Awkwafina, from “Crazy Rich Asians”), a dragon trapped in a human body, and battle to bring light and unity back to their world.

“I’m excited for ‘Raya’,” said Lee, who enjoyed escaping the complexity of the story room to be able “to come in with outside perspective and help.” She’s bringing in Chris Buck, her directing partner on “Frozen” and “Frozen 2,” to be a part of the “Raya” Story Trust, which is evolving. “Obviously you have different projects and different writers,” she said, “and it’s great to get their voices in the room, but we try to keep the table at about 25, because there comes a point where the room becomes too big,”

Following up the “Frozen” phenomenon was daunting for Lee, who is still completing a few lighting shots on “Frozen 2.” Exploring the differences between Anna as the fun-loving extrovert and Elsa as the shy, tormented artist was important, and so was deepening the spiritual force of Elsa’s superpower. But the story still had to organically connect to “Frozen” in the way that “The Empire Strikes Back” connects to “Star Wars.”


“For us, what we discovered, as we were shaping this as one giant journey, was that there were so many things we would start and they would just lace themselves backwards mechanically,” Lee said. “There was the feeling that this story was always there. It was just waiting for us to uncover it. And ‘Frozen 2’ happens to be a mystery. It’s fun doing something different. And we sit at the end of the journey now and you look back at all the circuitous routes you took to get there. Whether the world responds to it or not, we did what we set out to do and that feels good.”

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Veu mi fate sganasciare. Torno serio e dico che sì, almeno le pose sono regali e non dan la sensazione che parta una mossa da ninja da un momento all'altro (alludo a Rapunzel naturalmente).
Ma sapete che non ho mai capito perché per lei non han mai cambiato cover? L'han fatto per tutti Classici, anche recenti, tranne che per lei. Persino nel nuovo packaging con i soli protagonisti e la numerazione (sbagliata), lei l'han ripresa pari pari. E dire che il poster giapponese era stupendo, con lei sulla barchetta sognante, ma anche nel merchandise ha diverse pose, anche graziose e femminili. Mistero proprio.

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I registi Chris Buck e Jennifer Lee parlano del film (e interviene anche il produttore Peter Del Vecho):

Dal sito Gizmodo:

Deciding to Make Frozen II Was Much More Complicated Than You'd Expect

The idea of making a sequel to one of the biggest animated films of all time somehow seems more than just “obvious.” “Essential” is likely a better word. And yet, the filmmakers behind Frozen and the upcoming Frozen II say making a sequel wasn’t their first instinct and the road to get there was more than a little bumpy.

“We hadn’t been talking about [a sequel] at all,” Frozen II writer and co-director Jennifer Lee told io9 at a recent press day. “[But] by the time we started talking about it all we had to say was ‘We actually have an idea for Frozen...’ [and they interrupted us] ‘What do you need? Go ahead. Spend some time in the story room. Take a month. Just enjoy yourselves.’ So we had no plans at all.”

Six years after the release of the first Frozen, the film has become a part of our cultural DNA. The characters, the songs, many of us know them as well as we know ourselves. Because of that, it’s easy to forget that when the movie came out in 2013, it wasn’t instantly a hit. It didn’t even win the box office in either of its first two weekends (one limited, one wide). But word got around, the buzz grew, “Let It Go” played everywhere, and the film stayed in the top 10 for 18 consecutive weeks of an unheard-of, 35-week theatrical run. It ultimately became the highest-grossing animated film worldwide...that is, until Disney’s own remake of The Lion King took the spot this past year.

Let’s be honest, with that kind of success, Disney probably would have made a Frozen sequel no matter who was involved. Thankfully, before that could happen, Lee and her co-director Chris Buck’s faint first ideas were enough. Those ideas came from Buck and Lee continuing to think about the characters long after the movie was released and was successful.

“It was really just pressure on ourselves,” Buck told io9 about building up to making the sequel. “It was more about [us] falling in love with the characters when we did the short and then realizing there’s so much more story to tell. These characters are just starting their lives.”

The first Frozen ended with Elsa, the woman with magical ice powers, becoming the queen of Arendelle after her love saved her sister, Anna, from being an icicle. And while that’s an ending, the filmmakers realized it was also a beginning.

“Now that Elsa is back, she’s the queen of Arendelle, but what does that mean?” Buck continued. “She’s always been hiding, or in fear of, that. Now people have accepted her. Great. So what’s next. We went from there”

While making the first film, Lee, who is now also the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, said she never could have anticipated how big of an impact Anna and Elsa would have on people. Those reactions also became part of the formula that inspired the sequel.

“We kept hearing people related to [Elsa] a lot and for all different reasons,” Lee said. “Some of that is she would carry a lot of people who feel high expectations or felt different...Then it would always be followed up with, ‘Why does she have powers?’ I’d never thought past her being different and that, in the end, she could be accepted for who she was. But she’s never been able to live with herself, accept herself. What is her destiny? What is she meant to do? And all of those things were spinning.”

And so, in early 2015, the then jumbled collection of broad ideas known as Frozen II, was officially in the works. Things really began to come into focus, though, when the research began. On the first film, Lee and Buck were so crunched for time (a year of their production schedule was trimmed off at one point and Lee was only on the film for the final 18 months) they never got to go to the countries that inspired their story: Norway, Finland, and Iceland. That became a priority for the sequel and the trip happened in 2016. However, they never could have guessed just how important the trip would be.

“It was shocking for me when I look back on my notes,” Lee said. “I have literal documentation of the moments we have breakthroughs in the story. We [came] back with the main arc of our story and we [stayed] with it.”

Frozen II begins with a flashback of Anna and Elsa as young girls as we finally get to spend time with their parents (their mother is voiced by Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood). The story then shifts three years after the end of the first film when everything seems to be going fine for the sisters, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf. That is until Elsa begins to hear a voice in her head. Something calling her “Into the Unknown,” as an early song is titled. Turns out that voice ties into the trip Anna and Elsa’s parents were on when they perished in the first film. Eventually, it also takes them deep into an enchanted forest, far away from Arendelle, where questions about Elsa’s destiny will be answered.

Where the first Frozen was all cold, like winter, Frozen II is warmer, like autumn. Mythology plays an even bigger role this time around, especially with new creatures like a water horse called the Nokk and a wind character named Gale. Those ideas of a forest setting, of it taking place in the autumn, of bringing in even more mythology, all of that came from the filmmakers spending several weeks immersing themselves in Norway, Finland, and Iceland.

“There were just stunning moments of standing behind a waterfall, inside the volcano. There was one on a glacier and in the forest when I fell under the rocks, being with wild reindeer. Each time there were moments that you see that are in the film because they created such an emotional experience,” Lee said.

Stepping back even further, Buck added that the general environments of the countries spoke to the differences between the sisters. “It was kind of a stark contrast between Norway and Iceland that framed the concept for us,” he said. Anna felt at home in Norway with its fairytale settings, but Elsa felt strangely at home in this dark, mythic Iceland.”

That juxtaposition of dark, mythic stories, personified by Elsa, versus the simpler, fairytale life, personified by Anna, also became a through-line in the film, though the filmmakers were quiet on specifics of how it plays out. It will likely, however, have to do with exploring some of those unanswered questions from the first film.

“There were some questions people had that we wanted to answer,” Lee said. “For me, particularly, in terms of understanding the parents a little more and what motivated the girls emotionally as children. I love to ask those questions and [had] them myself.”

Finding the answers to those questions meant the filmmakers began to look at Frozen and Frozen II as two parts of a single story. A second chapter needed to be told to complete the first. It seems like, if they hadn’t come to that realization, Frozen II may not have ever happened. At least not with Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck at the helm.

“It was a breakthrough,” producer Peter Del Vecho told io9. “That idea of Frozen II to Frozen one making it one journey. Seeing parts of Frozen one from a different vantage point...” and, just like the song from the first movie said, Buck stepped in to finish his producer’s sentence sandwich.

“It was exciting to us as filmmakers,” he said, of melding the movies.

Frozen II opens November 22 and we’ll have much more on the film in the coming weeks.

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Veu mi fate sganasciare. Torno serio e dico che sì, almeno le pose sono regali e non dan la sensazione che parta una mossa da ninja da un momento all'altro (alludo a Rapunzel naturalmente).
Ma sapete che non ho mai capito perché per lei non han mai cambiato cover? L'han fatto per tutti Classici, anche recenti, tranne che per lei. Persino nel nuovo packaging con i soli protagonisti e la numerazione (sbagliata), lei l'han ripresa pari pari. E dire che il poster giapponese era stupendo, con lei sulla barchetta sognante, ma anche nel merchandise ha diverse pose, anche graziose e femminili. Mistero proprio.

ma infatti è una cosa che non abbiamo mai capito. Sono ORRENDE le cover dei dvd/blue ray di Rapunzel... pure noi speravamo che prima o poi facessero una cover decente con lei sulla barca sognante... e invece non l'hanno fatto. Pure quella ROSA con lei da sola (della collezione con soli protagonisti in cover e numerazione sbagliata dei dvd), è ORRENDA!!!
Che poi già che fanno la cover rosa per femmine, allora perchè non la mettono con la posa sognante e femminile???
Vi diciamo che abbiamo pure cercato edizioni piratate di Rapunzel con cover differenti ma non ne abbiamo mai trovate... se ne trovate una piratata con cover diversa SENZA nè nel fronte nè sul retro quella posa da femmina cazzuta, beh ditecelo che la compriamo!

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Dal sito Insider:

Why Elsa doesn't have a love story, gay or otherwise, in 'Frozen 2'

* Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for "Frozen 2."
* Despite many popular theories that Queen Elsa in "Frozen" is gay, she won't have any love interest in "Frozen 2."
* The movie's codirector Jennifer Lee says the creative team agreed they were not going to build the story from the outside in.
* As they wrote Elsa's story for "Frozen 2," her focus was on learning more about her powers.
*"We weren't making a statement about it," Lee said of the fan theories. "We were just building from where she is now and felt like we needed to stay true."
*"She's very shy," Lee said. "Right now she's not ready for relationships."

Ever since "Frozen" premiered in 2013, people in the LGBTQ community have found Queen Elsa's story to be a powerful allegory for queer identity, and hoped she might be given a gay love interest in the coming sequel.

But Elsa won't have any type of romantic partner in the upcoming movie, despite the popular fan theories about her sexuality.

"When we agreed to do the sequel, we agreed we were going to not build it [from] the outside in," codirector Jennifer Lee said in an interview with Insider at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California earlier this month. "We just couldn't do it."

Lee and her codirector Chris Buck, along with producer Peter Del Vecho, first started thinking about the story for "Frozen 2" about three years ago.

"What we did was spend a lot of time with each of the characters," Lee said. "I journaled as the characters, we did personality tests, just a lot of in-depth work and looking at where they are in their lives. For us, really looking at what Elsa's journey is, it was her need to understand her powers."

Lee and Buck have said that two of the driving questions for "Frozen 2" were where did Elsa's powers come from, and why doesn't Anna have any?

"We got a lot of feedback from each other while talking about [the story] and the pressure Elsa feels [as] a mythic character," Lee said. "She carries the weight of the world on her shoulders and that struggle of being pushed to her limit."

Elsa's bond with her sister Anna takes precedent over romance, and Lee says the queen isn't 'ready for relationships'

The first "Frozen" film was a subversion of Disney's previously typical "girl falls in love with prince and gets married and lives happily ever after" trope. Anna's prince charming wound up being the villain, and the "act of true love" that saved Anna's life was saving her sister, Elsa.

Anna did wind up falling in love with Kristoff in the B-plot of the movie, and the sequel will deal with their relationship as Kristoff tries (and fails) to propose to Anna early in the movie.

Lee says the core of the story was always about two sisters, and romance just wasn't where they were with Elsa as they wrote the sequel.

"We couldn't change that from the outside because it wouldn't be authentic," Lee said. "So we didn't build Elsa a romantic story line. We weren't making a statement about it, we were just building from where she is now and felt like we needed to stay true."

In a scene screened for press at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Elsa participates in family game night with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven. But when it comes time for her to act out prompts in charades, Elsa balks.

"She's very shy," Lee said of Elsa. "Right now she's not ready for relationships. We knew she's still struggling. It's enough that her sister is getting her out of her shell, right? You saw how charades took a lot for her. But she has this incredible power inside her and she's wrestling with that. I'm excited about where she gets to at the end."

"Frozen 2" arrives in theaters on November 22.

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Dal sito Cheatsheet:

'Frozen 2': Why There's No Villain in the Sequel

Frozen created two new Disney princesses for the ages, Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel). They’re back in Frozen 2 on a new adventure. What they don’t have the second time around is a villain to face. Frozen had Hans the prince who didn’t turn out to be the Prince Charming of Disney lore. Frozen 2 is even more complicated.

The filmmakers behind Frozen 2 gave reporters a preview of the film this month. Nowhere in that preview was a specific villain for Anna and Elsa to face. Here’s how directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, along with the story and animation departments, devised a Frozen 2 plot that didn’t need a bad guy to move the story. Frozen 2 comes out November 22.

‘Frozen 2’ will follow the thematic villain of the first film

Perhaps Hans doesn’t qualify as the main villain of Frozen. He was sent to assassinate Elsa, but he was only a symptom of the problem. The issue was Elsa owning her powers and learning to use them with love. Now that she has, Frozen 2 needs another thematic villain.

“We’ll let you see when you see it who you think the villains and antagonists are in this,” Lee said. “There are certainly a lot of antagonistic forces. Frozen 1 had a thematic villain: fear versus love. In terms of obstacles, antagonism and villainous forces, we’ve got that, but we’re going to do it the Frozen way. Put it that way.”

The conflict of ‘Frozen 2’ is still about Anna and Elsa

Frozen was a Disney first in which the two princesses came together, rather than a princess defeating an evil queen. There are still issues to explore between Anna and Elsa. Now Elsa is going Into the Unknown and Anna wants to protect her.

“It really boils down to Anna and Elsa and their relationship,” Buck said. “That real struggle between siblings and people who are very close. You’ve got your own sort of antagonists right there, so every time we would stray we’d always go back to Anna and Elsa and use them as the core of that.”

Anna and Elsa are two different kinds of heroes

Rather than a hero vs. a villain, Lee and Buck landed on two different sorts of heroes. That provided the necessary conflict for Frozen 2.

“The mythic story is a tragic story and it’s about a sort of superhuman character, someone with special powers who carries our sins and our flaws and our mistakes for us and then usually has a tragic fate,” Lee said. “In Frozen 1, Elsa would have had a tragic fate, and so would the world have. Imagine if Hans had killed her and the storm raged on. That would have been the mythic version.”

Another kind of hero is a fairy tale hero. That’s Anna.

“Anna is your perfect fairytale character,” Lee said. “She’s an ordinary hero, not magical. She’s optimistic whereas Elsa is the perfect mythic character. In the mythic aspect of it, the fear of that tragic fate is something that Anna’s been worrying about and thus protect her sister from.”

‘Frozen 2’ has two heroes instead of a villain

It turns out the fairy tale hero and the mythic hero provide just as much conflict as a villain.

“Fairytales don’t tell you that dragons don’t exist,” director of story Marc Smith said. “Dragons do exist. Fairytales tell you that you can slay the dragon. That’s Anna, you know. She is so positive. She believes in a happy ending. She’s such a fairytale character.”

Elsa’s myth means she feels a responsibility, one that might not come with a happy ending. Anna and Elsa are on the same side but Frozen 2 introduces opposing ideas of how to get there.

“It’s really taking a step back and thinking about just characters’ worldviews,” Smith continued. “I think those are nice opposing sort of characteristics of characters because both of them are true and both of them are false. It’s a nice conflict of characters.”

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Intervista a Peter Del Vecho (produttore esecutivo del film):

Dal sito Belfast Telegraph:

Frozen 2 producer explains reason for three-year time jump in sequel

The sequel will follow up the 2013 smash hit.

The sequel to Disney’s smash hit animation Frozen will have a three-year time jump to allow the key characters to mature, the film’s producer has said.

The long-awaited follow-up to the Oscar-winning box office juggernaut will arrive in cinemas later this year and will find Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) in a different position to the end of the first film.

Producer Peter Del Vecho told the PA news agency: “Part of it is we wanted our characters to mature, we wanted to understand what that maturity meant.

“So it felt like Anna turning 21 and Elsa turning 24, it’s similar to when kids graduate college, it’s that feeling we can remember too, you’re just beginning life.

“And it feels that Anna and Elsa are essentially just beginning life.

“You’re trying to figure out ‘What’s my purpose in the world? What am I supposed to do now?’ and so it just felt like the right age.”

He added: “At our first meeting we were looking at where did these characters leave off when we finished the first film? What was the emotional state of mind?

“Obviously Elsa changed but she is now queen of Arendelle, that is a new responsibility for her.

“Yes people accept her now, that is also new, but Anna and Elsa had been separated most of their life and most of the first movie they were separated so it’s the first time that they are together.

“They are now three years older, what does that mean? Then the question is there any such thing as happily ever after?

“The first movie was happily ever after but how long does that last? Does life have a way of throwing additional obstacles in your way or different challenges, and how do you grow to meet those challenges and how does family actually continue?

“You grow individually but still keep that connection with family. All those things interested us and felt like there was more story to tell.”

However, Del Vecho said “almost everything” about the story has changed over the course of making the film.

He said: “The one thing that was true on the first movie and is true on the second movie is we knew what we wanted to end with.

“So we knew where we were headed, we just don’t know how to get there, how to lay the ground work so it’s emotionally satisfying by the time you get there, what the right mix of characters are, what is the right amount of back story, all of that just takes time and you don’t get it right at first and that is OK, that is part of the exploration.

“We had a core idea of where we wanted to end the film that has remained constant, almost everything else has changed.”

Del Vecho added that the next film will address how Elsa got her magical powers, saying: “It’s sort of a natural question.

“If you think about the first film, all we said was was she born with it or cursed and the parent’s answer, born, and that is all we know about it. So it’s a natural question of why was she born with those powers?

“What is she meant to do with those powers?

“What is Anna’s role in all this?

“Why was she not born with powers and what is her special power?”

However, asked if there will be resolution to this question, he said: “It’s a question we ask, it’s what starts off the journey, I will let you watch the movie to decide if we answer it.”

Frozen 2 will be released in UK cinemas on November 22.

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We finally know what these 4 mysterious symbols mean in 'Frozen 2,' and they explain the danger heading for Anna and Elsa

* Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for "Frozen 2."
* Disney's "Frozen 2" trailers keep showing a set of four symbols in a diamond pattern.
* The symbols represent water, earth, wind, and fire, and those spirits rule over the Enchanted Forest, as Disney revealed during a special "Frozen 2" preview event attended by Insider.
* Disney's creative team revealed that Earth Giants, a water horse called the Nokk, and the wind-spirit Gale will all confront Elsa and Anna in "Frozen 2."
* The fire-spirit is still a mystery.

Anna and Elsa will have to face elemental spirits in "Frozen 2," and each element is represented by a diamond-shaped symbol — the same ones you've been shown in each trailer for the movie. Fans have been musing over the mysterious set of four symbols since February, when the first teaser trailer and the official poster for "Frozen 2" were released.

But now we know that the two sisters will venture out beyond Arendelle and into a forest ruled by "magical spirits of nature," as producer Peter Del Vecho revealed at a "Frozen 2" preview event attended by Insider at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California.

The four symbols represent water, earth, wind, and fire, and those spirits rule over the Enchanted Forest

"Frozen 2" codirector and writer Jennifer Lee says the source of Elsa's magic was a jumping off point for discussions around the story for the sequel.

"[We decided to] focus on Scandinavia and old Norse because that's the root these fairy-tales for our characters," Lee said in an interview with Insider. "And coming up with the concept of magic being nature, but also magic being an active thing and giving you a power."

Del Vecho said the spirits are both "enchanting" and "dangerous." Many years before Elsa and Anna were born, their father King Agnarr journeyed into a forest. Something went terribly wrong and the elemental spirits were angered.

Agnarr says he doesn't know who (or what) saved him, but he heard a "haunting voice" cry out and then the spirits caused a magical mist to enclose the forest, preventing anyone from coming in or out.

Until now.

At the start of "Frozen 2," Elsa hears the same haunting voice calling to her. When she decides to respond to it, singing the coming song "Into the Unknown," the sky fills with diamond-shaped ice crystals showing the four elemental symbols.

In the scene previewed by Insider during the "Frozen 2" event, Elsa immediately recognizes the patterns as representing water, earth, wind, and fire.

Elsa, along with Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf, decide they must follow this voice into the Enchanted Forest in order to save Arendelle from the awoken spirits.

Each element is represented by a physical spirit

The above image shows the elemental spirits Elsa sees in a vision as she sings "Into the Unknown."

Fire is represented with purplish-pink flames
Water is represented with a mystical water-horse called the Nokk
Earth is represented with massive rock giants
Wind is represented with a conscious airflow called Gale
Disney's creative teams were being secretive about the fire element, wanting to keep that revelation for the movie itself.

But we learned about Gale, the playful and curious wind spirit. She is the spirit we saw blowing leaves around the forest in the very first teaser trailer.

The Disney team also revealed that the "Earth Giants" are the rocky troll-like figures shown towering over the forest trees in the most recent trailer for "Frozen 2."

"Manu Arenas, who's our visual development artist here at the studio, was the first artist to start working on the Earth Giants," the "Frozen 2" art director of characters Bill Schwab said. "And he really focused in on the enormous scale of these characters while also integrating them into the environment because they are made of rock."

"The next artist [working] on the Earth Giants was Nick Orsi, and he really leaned into how much environment these characters can be made of and how we can bring that into a character," Schwab said.

"At this point, the directors asked me to work and really try and infuse some of the DNA of the trolls from [the first] 'Frozen' into the Earth Giants," Schwab said. "And close to the final design is sort of on top right and the bottom right there."

The last elemental spirit discussed by the Disney team was the Nokk.

"The Nokk is inspired by Nordic mythology and folklore," Disney animation supervisor Svetla Radivoeva said. "It's a shape-shifter but the directors decided to keep it to the shape of a horse. The direction for it was to be as realistic as possible to a horse and not a cartoony horse with funny expressions."

Even though real horses are peaceful animals, Radivoeva said "our horse, our Nokk, is actually a warrior and protector of the Dark Sea."

Elsa has a big confrontation with the Nokk when she travels to the Dark Sea without Anna and her other friends.

Elsa has a link to the water spirit, the symbol of which appears on her costumes

Disney's visual development artist, Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay, revealed concept artwork for Elsa's "Frozen 2" dresses. The small embroidery details reveal how the water symbol was embedded into the pattern of her ice-dress.

"We did try to sprinkle the iconography for both Anna and Elsa throughout the kingdom and throughout the movie," Sastrawinata-Lemay said. "Elsa has the elements in her costume, while Anna has Arendelle in her costume, because that's what they represent."

"And it's even sneakier than you realize," heads of effects-animation Marlon West added.

So keep a sharp eye out for more links between Elsa and her ice-powers and the elemental spirits which threaten the world of "Frozen 2."

"Frozen 2" arrives in theaters on November 22.

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How the fan response to the first ‘Frozen 2’ teaser wound up saving Anna’s sword-swinging scene

* The very first teaser for “Frozen 2” ended with a shot of Anna grabbing Kristoff’s sword and swinging it at an incoming enemy.
* “Frozen 2” directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck told Insider that scene had been cut from the movie by the time the teaser was released.
* But then fans had a very excited response to the visual of Anna with a sword.
* “We were like, ‘Uh oh, people love that scene,” Buck said. “So we made it work, but it’s different.”
* Now the newest trailer shows Anna with a different sword.

Fans who showed excitement for Anna’s sword-swinging moment in the first “Frozen 2” teaser trailer can take credit for keeping that visual in the final cut of the movie.

Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, the film’s codirectors, said that scene had been cut by the time the teaser was released – but then they saw how people responded to it.

“The thing you have to realize about trailers is [that] when we’re building the teaser we haven’t locked the story yet,” Lee said during an interview with Insider at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California. “Everything is up for grabs. So there are things that will not appear in the film […] and there are some things that are there and they’ll just appear in a different form. And that’s one of them.”

In February, Disney released the very first look at “Frozen 2” with a teaser trailer. There was no dialogue in the video, nor any real hint at a concrete plot, but people had an immediate, excited reaction to seeing Anna with a sword.

By the time the teaser was released, the shot of Anna grabbing Kristoff’s sword had been axed.

“That [scene] was in [the movie] at one point, and then it was out,” Buck said. “We were like, ‘Uh oh, people love that scene.’ So we made it work, but it’s different.”

Lee said the sword moment was initially removed because “because it wasn’t serving what we were going to do anymore in the film,” but now it’s back just in a newfangled way.

The second full-length trailer was released in September, and showed Anna with a different sword. Instead of grabbing a metal sword hanging at Kristoff’s side, the new trailer had Anna gripping a blade made from ice – likely created by Elsa at some point.

Fans will have to wait until “Frozen 2” arrives in theaters on November 22 to see how Anna’s weaponry was worked into the final version of the story.

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New Frozen 2 Footage Reveals Elsa's Mission & Olaf's Song

Walt Disney Studios Animation unveiled five scenes from the first half of Frozen 2 during a recent press event, and here's a complete description of each one, three of which include new songs to the franchise. Coming six years after the first Frozen hit theaters and became a worldwide phenomenon - not just with children but adults as well - Frozen 2 sees Anna and Elsa embark on another journey, one that answers questions about their past as they seek to save their future.

Taking place three years after the first Frozen movie ended, Frozen 2 sees Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf head to the Enchanted Forest, where Elsa is hoping to find out who or what has been calling out to here and how they can once again save Arendelle. But this story will answer certain questions that were left unanswered in the first film - about Anna, Elsa, and their family - and it will act as the second part of a two-part story. Whether or not that turns into three parts is unclear.

At an early press day for Frozen 2, Disney screened approximately 20 minutes of footage from the first half of the film, showing off a variety of what viewers can expect when the movie releases in November. A significant portion of the footage - namely the first two clips shown - was first screened at D23 Expo 2019 in August, though the second scene shown at this event was an extended version.

QUEEN IDUNA'S LULLABY TO ANNA & ELSA

Frozen 2 begins with a flashback to when Anna and Elsa were children. In the scene, their father, King Agnarr, telling them a story about when he visited a real enchanted forest. This forest is one that's ruled by the "magical spirits of nature", according to director Chris Buck, but are really the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Something went wrong when he was there, and so, the forest banished everyone and put up a mist wall so nothing could get in or out.

This story frightens Anna and Elsa, and their mother, Queen Iduna (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood in Frozen 2, who replaces writer-director Jennifer Lee who lent her voice as the queen in the first film), sings them a lullaby called "All is Found" in order to get them to sleep. She tells them to come in close, and then she slowly strokes her finger down the bridge of their noses while calmly singing the song. It doesn't take long for them to fall asleep, especially Anna.

ELSA'S "INTO THE UNKNOWN" & THE VILLAGE'S DESTRUCTION

Years after the opening flashback sequence and three years after the end of the first Frozen movie begins the story of Frozen 2, with Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Olaf having a family game night. They play charades, and when it's Elsa's turn, she becomes distracted and looks out the window. Anna thinks the answer is "distracted", but Elsa is really just distracted because she hears a voice - a distant cry - which audiences should, at this point, recognize coming from the Enchanted Forest.


Elsa leaves and goes to bed, and Anna expresses her concern with Kristoff, though she herself is distracted. Kristoff tries to propose to Anna, but Anna doesn't realize and leaves the room. Anna goes to speak to Elsa and begins to sing her the lullaby that their mother, Queen Iduna, had sung to them when they were children. Sometime later, after they had both fallen asleep, Elsa suddenly awakes and hears that distant voice again. She leaves the room and starts to sing the song "Into the Unknown".

She's hesitant at first, whispering that she doesn't want to listen to the voice, but then she can't help herself. Bursting through the balcony door, Elsa begins to belt out the rest of the song, leaving the palace and going down to the water. During this sequence, that spirit echoes back to Elsa while she's singing and it even takes control of Elsa's powers, showing her ice visions in front of her. It seems that at least some of these visions foreshadow what's to come in the rest of the film, seeing as Bruni can be seen running around Elsa.

Elsa follows the spirit's voice (which actually appears to have manifested into a tiny ball of ice/light, presumably using Elsa's powers) and when she comes into contact with it, she unleashes all of the ice crystals that take over Arendelle. Each ice crystal represents a specific element. At that moment, Anna comes out onto the balcony at the palace and sees the crystals, too. But the moment doesn't last long, as whatever Elsa did seemed to have awoken the spirits at the Enchanted Forest to the north.

Suddenly, the ice crystals begin to fall since the four elements are essentially being taken away. Water disappears from the fountains, the air rages and rips apart the flags, the lights go out once the fire is gone, and the ground begins to crumble at their feet, as they all flee from Arendelle to high ground.


ANNA & ELSA ARRIVING AT THE ENCHANTED FOREST'S MIST WALL

Though Disney Animation chose not to show the scene in which Anna and Elsa consult with Pabbie about what's plaguing Arendelle, we were told that Pabbie tells them the "past is not what it seems" (which is in the second Frozen 2 trailer), and Elsa realizes that she must follow the voice to figure out how and why she awoke the spirits. Sometime after that, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf arrive at the Enchanted Forest and find the four rock structures that resemble the ice crystals that Elsa created outside the Arendelle palace.

Olaf, being the innocent creature that he is, runs towards the mist wall and gets shot back. Instead of feeling hurt, he thinks it's fun and tries it again. Elsa appears anxious and concerned about what she'll find on the other side of the wall, so Anna comforts her and tells her that they'll be doing this together. That's when Elsa touches the mist wall and it parts for them to all pass through. Once they are inside, it closes behind them, presumably again sealing the forest off from the outside world.

OLAF'S SONG IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST

Just like Olaf's "In Summer" song from the first Frozen movie, Olaf's solo song in Frozen 2 will once again highlight his naivete. At one point in the sequel, Olaf will find himself alone in the Enchanted Forest (as seen at the end of the second Frozen 2 trailer). It's then that the wind spirit, Gale, appears to play around with - or possibly attack - Olaf. She spins him around, tosses things at him, and overall frightens him. Olaf knows that what he's seeing is strange, but he's okay with that.

The title of Olaf's song in Frozen 2 is "When I Am Older", and it's about the loveable snowman thinking about maturing, getting older, and understanding life. (He is starting to read a lot, after all.) He frequently repeats a phrase about how everything that's happening to him in this scene will make sense when he's older, because adults are supposed to have everything figured out in life. Olaf's song comes to a quick end when he sees something in the water and begins to run away - screaming - as Gale throws even more debris and rocks at him.

ELSA FIGHTING THE NOKK IN THE DARK SEA

One of the trials Elsa must face is the Dark Sea. As shown in the first Frozen 2 trailer, Elsa readies herself and charges at the oncoming waves, using her powers to create a massive ice ramp. Unfortunately, the ice ramp breaks and she falls into the crashing wave. It's then, when she's underwater, that the Nokk - a water-based shape-shifting spirit that takes the form of a horse; a warrior and a protector of the Dark Sea - appears in front of her.

The Nokk seems to think Elsa is a threat and attacks her, at which point Elsa uses her emergency magic to break free from the water spirit, though it doesn't leave her alone for long. (In this sequence, think of the Nokk as more of a majestic shark grabbing ahold of its prey, but obviously depicted in a much more appropriate manner for children.) At the end of the short clip, the Nokk is dragging Elsa away from the shore, though, in the second Frozen 2 trailer, it seems she manages to wrangle the water horse.

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‘Frozen 2’ Filmmakers Reveal New Details About the Sequel [Set Visit]

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Walt Disney Animation in Burbank to take an early look at some footage from Frozen II, the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2013 mega-hit. Returning directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and their team spent the last four years making this film, which is only the fourth sequel in Disney Animation history (not counting direct-to-video movies). Read on to discover what we learned about the film’s story, its new characters, the changes to Arendelle since the original movie, and much, much more.

As producer Peter Del Vecho was traveling the world, he kept hearing the same question over and over: Where did Elsa get her icy powers? In an early morning presentation, Buck told us that he and the other filmmakers realized there were many other questions left unanswered by the first film: How have Elsa’s powers grown? Why was Anna born the way she was? Where were their parents going when their ship went down? Is there really such a thing as happily ever after?

On the first Frozen, Lee, Buck, and Del Vecho were so busy breaking the story that they didn’t have time to go on the artist research trip to Norway. But for this film, they (and several artists) visited Norway, Finland, and Iceland and were inspired by the natural beauty of those places. Not only did the trip result in more distinct details being worked into the locations in this movie, but it inspired a key story element as well: providing a stark difference between Anna and Elsa. “Anna felt at home in Norway with its fairy tale settings, but Elsa felt strangely at home in the stark, mythic Iceland,” Buck explained.

Lee elaborated:

“I think that concept for us, of the fairy tale and the myth, became very strong. Anna is the perfect fairy tale character: she is non-magical, human in a non-magical world. She’s very optimistic and courageous. Whereas Elsa is the perfect mythic character. Mythic characters are often magical in a world they are different from, and they take on the weight of the world on their own shoulders and they do what others can’t. But in fact, mythic characters’ fates are often tragic…But there’s something for Anna that she will always fear and always want to do, to protect her sister from that mythic side of herself.”

The filmmakers again collaborated with Oscar-winning songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who crafted seven new songs for this movie, and while the core voice cast from the first film is also back, they brought in some new talent as well. Evan Rachel Wood plays Queen Iduna, the girls’ parents, taking over the role from Jennifer Lee herself, who performed that character’s single line in the first movie. (“She’s ice cold.”) And Sterling K. Brown is also on board as Lt. Mattias, “a soldier who’s been trapped in an enchanted forest since a fierce battle broke out over thirty years ago when Anna and Elsa’s grandfather was actually king.”

The Story

The footage presentation began with the opening scene of the movie, in which Young Anna and Elsa are being told a true tale by their father, King Agnarr. He tells them about a real enchanted forest that he got to visit once as a boy, a forest ruled by the magical spirits of nature: air, fire, water, and earth. On that visit, something went very wrong and enraged the spirits, and Agnarr barely survived. He’s not sure who saved his life, but a haunting voice called out and a magical mist enveloped the forest, blocking everyone out. So he warns the girls that the forest may one day wake again, and they must be prepared for whatever danger it may bring. In lieu of answering the daughters’ myriad questions, their mother sings them a lullaby about a place that has all of the answers.

Then the film jumps ahead to present day in Arendelle. About three years have elapsed since the ending of the first movie, the gates of the kingdom are open wide, the whole gang is together, and Anna has never been happier. Thanks to Elsa, Olaf now has a permafrost, which lets him enjoy the summer that he loves so much without melting. He also has a new passion in this movie: reading. Kristoff is deeply in love with Anna, and early in the movie, after he’s alone with Anna following a (very funny) game of charades with the whole group, he tries to propose – but she doesn’t notice, because she’s distracted by Elsa’s behavior.

“As you got a hint of with Kristoff, it may not be so easy to get the relationship to the next step,” Lee told us. “I can’t say more [about that character’s arc] without giving more away, but it may end up involving a really fantastic song by Jonathan Groff finally getting to sing.” And for fans who were hoping to see Elsa in a gay relationship in this sequel, Lee has some disappointing news. “In terms of Elsa, she’s not going to have a romantic relationship in this like she didn’t in the first one. This is a woman carrying the weight of the kingdom on her shoulders. The heart of it is about her family, her sister, and her having to wrestle with her power as it grows.”

So what exactly distracted Anna from Kristoff’s proposal? Well, she’s noticed that something’s up with her sister. Elsa has started to hear that same haunted voice her father heard long ago, leading into the song “Into the Unknown” (which appears to be this movie’s version of a belting, “Let It Go”-style song for her). But Elsa’s burst of ice powers at the end of the song unwittingly awakens the spirits, and the four elements are unleashed upon the kingdom, causing residents to flee their homes. Elsa knows that to save the kingdom, she must go to the enchanted forest and find the voice calling out to her. The trolls tell her that she’ll be challenged every step of the way, but Anna is determined not to let anything happen to her sister – not now, not after all they’ve been through. So they all set out on a journey across Arendelle, far past any place they’ve ever been.

They finally arrive at the edge of a forest, where a wall of mist parts and they find themselves sucked inside. Olaf is separated from the group and encounters mysterious forces in the forest, where he sings a funny song about how all of the dangerous and scary things he’s witnessing will probably make sense one day (he still has the comprehension of a child, but he’s familiar with the phrase “everything will make sense when you’re older”). Elsa realizes that she has to traverse the most dangerous part of this journey alone, so she leaves Anna behind and visits the Dark Sea, where she meets a water spirit called the Nokk, which practically kicks her ass in an intense underwater sequence.

New Characters

During small group presentations with some of the film’s animation supervisors, they revealed several new characters who will be added into this sequel. The one most people are going to be super excited about is Bruni, a salamander who was specifically made to be “as adorable as possible.” If you’ve seen Tangled (and you should, because it’s very good) and remember her chameleon pal Pascal, Bruni has a similar kind of vibe – although he seems to be way speedier. The filmmakers were all very tight-lipped about the role Bruni plays in the movie, but you can see him briefly in the latest trailer.

Then there are the Earth Giants, a massive race made of rock who live in the enchanted forest. They’re huge creatures who kind of look like a cross between the trolls from the first movie and the massive Rockbiter from The NeverEnding Story, and the animators showed us how the rocks that make up the characters’ bodies slide on top of one another to simulate breathing. You can see a good example of them in action at the 1:29 mark of the trailer.

There’s also Gale, an invisible wind spirit who provided quite the challenge for the animators. After all, how do you draw something that isn’t actually there? The solution was to use debris and the surrounding environment to indicate how Gale was moving, and by controlling the speed and direction of her movements, they could imbue her with a sense of personality. (At one point in the movie, this invisible wind spirit gives Elsa a hug.) The animation team had to collaborate with colleagues across multiple departments – effects, tech animation, lighting, etc. – many of which normally pick up the baton much later in the process, to ensure that there were enough leaves and pieces of environment for Gale to traverse, making it clear where she was at all times. Gale’s ultimate role in the story wasn’t shared with us, so it’s unclear if Gale might actually be a spirit of one of Elsa’s loved ones or a wholly separate character.

We also heard a bit about the Nokk. In Nordic mythology and folklore, the Nokk is a shapeshifter, but in this movie, the directors decided to keep it in the shape of a horse made of water who inhabits the Dark Sea, where Elsa jumps into the waves in that first teaser trailer. “Our horse, our Nokk, is actually a warrior and protector of the Dark Sea,” said animation supervisor Svetla Radivoeva. “We thought of it as a wild stallion that just hasn’t been yet tamed.” As you might expect, the team had to figure out how much definition needed to be visible for audiences to be able to track a character who is completely made of water, so noticeable parts like the tail and mane became especially important in drawing the eye and crafting the design. Plus, they had to make sure that its emotions could translate properly, so they keyed in on its ear movements to hint at the creature’s mood.

Effects Supervisor Erin Ramos also explained the big differences between how the water worked in Disney Animation’s Moana versus how it’s being used here:

“We had to make these huge, breaking waves that are fully simulated. So, it was definitely a step above where we were with Moana. I think Moana, the challenge was just getting the water to feel very gentle. It’s actually pretty hard to tame simulations. But then for [Frozen II], just getting the right size of these waves, getting the scale actually, nailing that was the big challenge here. And also, honestly, the interaction with [the] animation [department], just the back and forth that we had to do that was the biggest challenge for this movie…like, when a boat’s cutting through the water, it’s one thing. But when [Elsa’s] feet have to register on the surface of the water, on a surface that’s simulated…you don’t know what you’re gonna get. You run a simulation, and it comes out like, ‘All right, that looks cool.’ And you run it again, you might get something completely different. Her footstep could’ve worked with one time, and then the next time it didn’t work.”

So as you can see, we learned about the spirits of Earth (the giants), air (Gale), and water (the Nokk), but the filmmakers were quiet about whether or not there is a spirit of fire that we might see in the movie, which seems like a distinct possibility.

New Locations (And Some Touch-Ups to Familiar Ones)

This movie’s color palette is completely different from the cool, icy blues of the original movie. This film takes place during the fall, a season that represents change and is a reflection of the maturation of the film’s protagonists. That idea extended to the village in Arendelle, where the designers actually repainted all of its buildings to match the new autumnal color scheme. As head of environments Sean Jenkins explained:

“Early on, we knew that we were going to have a song in the village. And we knew that the song was going to be the characters traveling through the village. So where a lot of the original movie took place in isolation. This was a point where we were really going to have to fill in all of the rest of Arendelle. And make sense of some of the icons that we had seen before, say like the clock tower and the port but really give it an overall consistency, a sense of history, a sense of place.”

They showed us how they used the bird’s eye view of a virtual drone flying over the village to get an idea of how it should be properly laid out as a functioning village, connecting all of the disparate pieces into one fluid location. They used the VR version of Arendelle not only to scout potential camera angles, but also to get a better sense themselves of just how towering the fjords are that surround the castle, which gave them a better perspective on the kingdom overall. (I asked if there were any plans to release the VR version of Arendelle for consumers to be able to explore on their own, and while the production designers seemed in favor of it, there aren’t any official plans along those lines yet.)

As the characters move away from the castle and out into the forests, the designers were inspired by the work of Eyvind Earle, best known for the distinctive aesthetic of Sleeping Beauty. Forests can be difficult to create in a film like this because of their size and density, and the filmmakers wanted to make sure that the audience didn’t get lost in an overwhelming, unfamiliar environment. So the designers built between a dozen and twenty unique mini-islands, grouping combinations of trees, bushes, boulders, and hills together to form a small piece that could be slotted into a larger landscape. Accuracy was important, too – the plants and trees and moss you see all actually grow in those parts of the world. They brought in a botanist from Norway, and added tens of thousands of hand-placed trees into the world of the film, using mist to form a sort of back wall in several of the shots so the image doesn’t seem to continue on forever. The result is a stylized naturalism that makes the forest feel like a real place while simultaneously giving it a touch of Frozen-esque otherworldliness.

As someone who was so put off by the trailers for the first movie that I almost skipped the movie entirely, I’m very impressed with what Frozen II seems to be offering. It looks incredible from a technical perspective, and the story seems like an organic continuation of the first movie instead of a forced return to these characters. Now we just have to wait until the movie actually arrives to see if the rest of the film lives up to the potential of what we saw in this early look.

Frozen II hits theaters on November 22, 2019. Keep an eye out later next month for our entire exclusive interview with director Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, and Peter Del Vecho.

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CS Visits Disney Animation to Learn Frozen 2 Story, Music Details

At an early press day at Walt Disney Animation Studios, ComingSoon.net was invited to see scenes from Frozen 2 that included a look at Elsa’s next musical showstopper: “Into the Unknown,” her big follow-up to “Let it Go.” We also got new story details and react to early footage!

Directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck were on hand to share a preview that started by taking us into the past. In the film’s opening, we see the royal sisters as children being told a story by their dad, King Agnarr about an Enchanted Forest that he visited as a boy. In it, he encountered the magical spirits of nature: air, fire, water, and earth. In the enchanted environment, he experienced a dangerous brush with the nature of these spirits that almost cost him his life but doesn’t remember what angered them or what saved him. Only that he heard a haunting voice cry out and push everyone out of the forest and creating a thick mist to keep them out.

Little Anna and Elsa are enraptured by the story but their father warns them that the forest is shrouded in a mystery that they should prepare for if the fog lifts and the spirits are awakened again. Excitedly they want to stay up with questions but their mother Iduna sings them a lullaby that was sung to her as a child about a river that leads to a place that leads to the answers of everything they’d want to know.

Expanding on Anna and Elsa’s history through a good memory of their parents raises a lot of questions about what they might have been keeping from their children. In the first Frozen, we had scenes of the sisters being kept apart when they were younger. Getting a glimpse at the royal family happy and acknowledging the magical nature of their world outside of Elsa’s powers, builds the groundwork for the Queen and King perhaps knowing more before their journey to the sea. Having her father be someone who experienced trauma due to elemental spirits in a forest, may have been why he encouraged Elsa to conceal her magical abilities in the hopes that she wouldn’t encounter the dangers he did.

Having the counterpoint to his fears be a lullaby about ancestral knowledge in nature that’s sung to them by their mother. Jennifer Lee (who voiced the character in the first one) shared that she fired herself and cast Evan Rachel Wood to take over, “Evan is amazing and her singing voice sits beautifully between Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel in terms of its parent sweetness and that was an amazing discovery as we get to hear her sing.” And the lullaby she performs plants newly introduced mythology into their head that will come into play when we pick up on Anna and Elsa following the events of the first film.

Serving as the Queen of Arendelle with Anna at her side, Elsa is settling into a routine as a leader. It’s so exciting to see more adventures of a Queen and the challenges she faces in not only governing but also figuring out the new personal relationships she has after being isolated for so long. Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven round out their found family and they share an opening ensemble scene over a game of charades. Olaf uses the power of transformation that flexes his shorthand with Kristoff and Sven but Anna and Elsa don’t quite have the hang of effortless communication with one another. Something is stopping Elsa from being in tune with her sister and while Anna assures her it’s not a big deal with a lullaby–something still keeps Elsa awake at night.

There are voices in Elsa’s head that won’t let her sleep!

We were able to watch the full sequence of “Into the Unknown,” Elsa’s first number of TWO, and were completely blown away by this musical number. It’s yet another all-timer vocal performance from Idina Menzel that will make you feel empowered. Prepare to hear it on repeat over and over.

When asked if there was stress to follow up “Let it Go,” Lee talked about their approach with composers/lyricists Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “We made a pact when we connected with Bobby and Kristen that we would build the second one the same way as the first, and not let that pressure into the story room. Because every song has to come from the story, just like it did before. Every moment has to be true. At the end of the day we- just like we didn’t know what the world would think of Frozen. We can’t know, but we can know that we did build this the way we believed in and there’s a lot of real emotion and real sharing of experience and real sort of story that was driven the way the first one was.” They would also take scenes from the film that Lee and Buck would share and highlight moments where musical moments could occur naturally.

“Into the Unknown” follows Elsa as she considers the call she hears outside the castle walls she is in by choice. Through the song, Elsa expresses her frustration over a voice that’s calling to her and her refusal to listen even though she REALLY wants to! The distant voice taps into a part of Elsa that she’s ignored for fear that it would only lead to danger and threaten the happy life she has with Anna and the kingdom. Her powers jump out to connect with the voice and unleash an elemental force on Arendelle that propels her, Anna and company on a new adventure.

At the heart of the film, Chris Buck described the through line of the film as something that jumped out to them from their research trip. He said, “It was kind of a stark contrast between Norway and Iceland that framed the concept for us. Anna felt at home in Norway with its fairytale settings, but Elsa felt strangely at home in this dark, mythic Iceland.”

So, while in the past her parents evaded exploring the root of Elsa’s powers, and maybe were lost at sea when they did try to find out more, we have a new story where Anna and Elsa choose to face it on together. That’s the most exciting thing about Frozen 2, seeing how Anna’s potential as a human gets put to the test while we also see Elsa push her powers against elements bigger than her.

In the sea sequence, we’ve gotten a glimpse of Elsa manifesting her ice powers against the sea and a mythical water creature that she encounters. And while her ice bridge is built-in defense, the animators took special notice to make sure Elsa doesn’t regress with her abilities. Also on hand was Animation supervisor Michael Woodside, who worked on Elsa’s power moments, “We’re really looking at what we had established on the first film. She’s been kind of groomed to be the queen. But there’s this nice grace to her.”

He recalled how in the first film, we saw how her powers involuntarily externalized to protect her–which Hans used to describe her as a threat so they decided to step away from that through rooting her movement to who the core of who she is, “Her fingers, when she’s casting the magic, there’s a nice flow to them. Instead of, like, a claw, type of thing. We did something like that in the first film– that moment where she was being attacked by those guys. And, you know, she was kind of doing kind of like a monster type claw. In this film she creates things. Huge pieces of magic like, quickly. She envisions something and it’s, and it’s created.” Michael likened the shift of her power being like going from Ballet in the first film to modern dance in this one.

Solidifying Elsa as a mythically powered heroine going on a journey with her sister who isn’t, creates intriguing stakes. Jennifer Lee proudly brings the sisters to the forefront, “Anna is your perfect fairytale character. She’s an ordinary hero, not magical. She’s optimistic. Whereas Elsa is the perfect mythic character. Mythic characters are magical. They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In fact, the mythic characters often meet a tragic fate and we realized we had two stories going together, mythic story and a fairytale story. In the mythic aspect of it, the fear of that tragic fate is something that Anna’s been worrying about and thus protect her sister from.”

It will be interesting to see how despite their differences, Anna and Elsa will find a way to overcome obstacles to protect their kingdom together and strengthen their bond. We can’t wait to follow them “Into the Unknown” in Frozen 2 which opens November 22nd!

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20 Things to Know About ‘Frozen II’: Timeline, Setting, and New Characters Revealed

Even though the filmmakers were still hard at work finishing the highly anticipated Frozen II in time for its November 22nd release date, they invited members of the media out to Walt Disney Animation Studios on September 6th to preview various parts of the film, as well as some of the new original songs. Directed by Jennifer Lee (who’s also the Chief Creative Officer at WDAS) and Chris Buck (Tarzan) and produced by Peter Del Vecho (who’s also Senior Vice President of Production, overseeing the production for all of the feature films at WDAS), the sequel to the highest grossing animated film of all time in worldwide box office will see Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell), Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan Groff), Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) and Sven set out on a dangerous journey to discover the answers to why she was born with magical powers, and they’ll learn whether those powers are enough to ensure their survival.

At an early preview day for Frozen 2 held at Walt Disney Animation Studios, members of the media got to take part in a variety of presentations showcasing how the story developed, the evolution of Anna and Elsa, the production design, new locations and characters, and the new original song. Here is a collection of 20 things to know, from everything we learned about the highly anticipated sequel. And for recently revealed soundtrack details, click here.

* When the first Frozen film was released in theaters six years ago, they never could have imagined how much it would mean to people of all ages. As a result, they knew they would have to take extra care with the sequel, and the cast and crew have been pouring their heart and soul into Frozen II for four years now.

* At Walt Disney Animation Studios, they never make a sequel unless the filmmakers themselves have an idea for a film and a desire to tell it. That’s why even though Frozen II is the studio’s 58th animated feature, it’s only their fourth sequel, and it’s their first animated musical sequel.

* The filmmakers realized that there was more story to tell when people kept asking, where did Elsa get her icy powers? It’s a question that they were wrestling with themselves, which lead them to the understanding that Frozen’s ending was really just the beginning for Anna and Elsa, having newly been reunited as sisters.

* Although there were episodes of the ABC TV series Once Upon A Time that included Anna and Elsa, the filmmakers do not see any of that story as canon, and they made a point not to see it, so that it wouldn’t affect their storytelling. They see Frozen 1 and 2 as one complete story.

* The work on the sequel began when the filmmakers and artists went on a research trip in September 2016, to Norway, Finland and Iceland in 2016, where they were deeply inspired by the beauty of the locales. The Fall colors of Norway, the waterfalls, and the stark beauty of Iceland, all made it into the finished film. The contrast between Norway and Iceland helped the filmmakers frame the differences between Anna and Elsa. Anna feels at home in Norway with its fairytale setting, while Elsa feels at home in the dark, mythic Iceland. Anna is the perfect fairytale character because she’s an ordinary hero who’s not magical and she’s optimistic. Elsa is the perfect mythic character because she’s magical and carries the weight of the world on their shoulders. Mythic characters often meet a tragic fate, and it’s that fate that Anna is worried about and trying to protect her sister from.

* Because they knew that they would need new original songs for the sequel, the filmmakers brought songwriting team Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez back in to work their magic. They worked very closely together, every day, either via video conference or in person, to deliver the seven songs that are included in the film. And not only does Elsa have two songs in the film, but Kristoff will finally get his own song.
Along with returning voice actors Kristen Bell (“Anna”), Idina Menzel (“Elsa”), Josh Gad (“Olaf”) and Jonathan Groff (“Kristoff”), the sequel includes the addition of Evan Rachel Wood as Anna and Elsa’s mother, Queen Iduna, and Sterling K. Brown as Lieutenant Mattias, a character who’s been trapped in the Enchanted Forest since a fierce battle broke out over 30 years ago, when Anna and Elsa’s grandfather was king. Co-director Jennifer Lee voiced Queen Iduna in the first film, but was replaced with Wood when they needed someone who could sing.
With the initial question of where Elsa’s powers come from, the film will ask a variety of questions like, where are Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven now? What’s going on with them? How have they grown since Anna saved Elsa’s life? Why was Anna born the way she was? Where were the parents going when their ship went down? And is there really such a thing as happily ever after? Frozen II is ultimately a mythic fairytale about home and family, self-discovery, courage and the power to never give up.

* While Frozen 1 had the thematic villain of fear vs. love, Frozen II has antagonistic forces and obstacles, instead of a single big bad villain.

* As children, Anna and Elsa are told a true story by their father, King Agnarr, about the enchanted forest that he visited as a boy. That forest was ruled by the magical spirits of nature – air, fire, water and earth – and while those spirits can be enchanting, they can also be dangerous. On his visit, something went very wrong and enraged the spirits, and Agnarr barely survived. And while he doesn’t know who saved him, he knows that a haunting voice cried out and a magical mist enveloped the forest and shoved everyone out. Their father warns Anna and Elsa that they forest may wake again and that they must be prepared for whatever it may bring. Because young Anna and Elsa are so concerned about this possible danger, their mother sings them a lullaby about a place that has all of the answers to everything you could ever want to know. The lullaby is the first song in the film, and the first time that audiences will hear Evan Rachel Wood sing.

* Present-day Arendelle in the film is actually three years after the gates were opened, and Anna couldn’t be happier. She has her sister back, the gates are open, Elsa is queen, and she has Kristoff, Olaf and Sven. Olaf now has a permafrost that allows him to fully enjoy Summer without the worry of melting. But all of that changes when Elsa begins to hear a voice that’s a distant cry that only she can hear, and that’s from the Enchanted Forest that their father told them about as children.

* With Elsa waking up the forest and the spirits, Arendelle is in great danger, and the trolls warn her that, in order to save her kingdom, she must go into the Enchanted Forest and find the voice that’s calling her. Once in the forest, the spirits of nature will challenge Elsa at every step of the way, and Anna promises not to let anything happen to her sister, as she sets out on her journey. But an enchanted forest is a metaphor for life, and change comes for you whether you like it or not, so it’s hard to avoid wherever that will lead. When everything you thought you knew proves to be wrong, relationships will be tested and powers that were once too strong may suddenly not be enough.

* Elsa realizes that, as much as Anna wants to help, she must embark on this transformative path alone. On her journey, she will have to face the Dark Sea, which contains a majestic and foreboding water spirit, called the Nokk. The Nokk comes from old Norse myths from the Nordic region and Scandinavian culture, and is a horse that’s made of water. In creating the character, the designers had to think about the Nokk not only above water but in water, and decide how much or how little water they would need to describe a horse while playing with the abstraction of that design. As warrior and protector of the Dark Sea, the Nokk is like a wild stallion that hasn’t been tamed yet. Another challenge with the Nokk was the fact that it has eyes that you don’t really see where they’re looking at, so you have to track the horse’s attention by looking at where its ears are pointing and you can get a sense of its emotion by how its ears are reacting.

* Frozen II introduces the Earth Giants, who are made of rock. They’re asymmetrical, which makes them very difficult to move around, and they’re also super heavy. While designing their visual look, they had to take the enormous scale of the characters into account and integrate them into the environment, as beings made of rock. They also infused some of the DNA of the trolls from Frozen 1, as they developed the living and breathing creatures. In order to be able to have them walk, they devised a way to have the rocks slide around rather than bend, to help preserve their stone-like features.

* The challenge in creating Gale, the wind spirit, was figuring out how to draw wind, when it’s not something you can actually see. So, the solution was to think about debris, sticks, leaves and things that might be in the forest and that they could use to define Gale. The designers also used color, pattern and light to help bring the character to life. With a character like Gale, the audience also has to be able to track her through a scene, so it was important to have the right elements in each scene to be able to show that she’s there.

* The goal with the creation of Bruni, the salamander, was to make him appealing, super cute and as adorable as possible. They looked at salamanders, lizards, iguanas, and all sorts of reptilian creatures for reference in designing the character. Salamanders move very slow, but they wanted a little more speed with Bruni, who’s more of a cartoony character than a realistic one.

* In Frozen 1, they focused on a jeweled winter palette that worked beautifully with the snow. In Frozen II, they deal with fall and the fall color palette, which includes ]everything from yellow to dark reds and browns, and it’s all on the warm side of the spectrum. So, in order to way the two sensibilities together, they went more with magentas and reds with a lacing of yellow, instead of focusing on straight oranges and yellows.

* In Frozen II, Anna’s costumes and colors signify the fall season. The filmmakers decided that Elsa will always be in a light color, so that she looks like ice, which makes it challenging to find a color that’s brilliant and strong enough, when they’re next to each other. Anna’s chosen travel costume is actually number 122, and it was actually originally meant for Elsa, but they ended up shortening the hemline and giving her a heavy cape, which ultimately had more of an Anna feel. They think about every component and detail on each outfit, like the embroidery, where the orientation is, and the seams.

* For a character like Elsa, who is complex and constantly evolving, her costumes are constantly evolving with her. When audiences first met little Anna and little Elsa, they were both really bright and effervescent, but as Elsa becomes more secretive and more secluded and closed off, so do her silhouettes. She has higher collars and gloves, longer sleeves and longer hemlines, and her colors get darker, which is meant to show you that she’s becoming more and more closed off to the world. “Let it Go” was the first time that she returned to the first colors that we met her in, with a silhouette that was more freeing and meant to show you the authentic Elsa. With “Into the Unknown,” she’s in the darker color again, which is an important piece to her puzzle in Frozen II. Elsa can also make her own clothes out of ice, so there’s more freedom with the use of more ethereal materials, including some tulles and silks. She cannot wear anything that feels too warm, so magenta and violet are as far as they can push things with color.

* In the first film, Elsa’s movements were based more in ballet. In Frozen II, her movements are more modern dance-like. They balance the breaths the character takes with the movement of her body, when conveying the emotion of each scene. Elsa also has a grace to her, and her fingers have a nice flow to them when she’s casting magic, instead of forming into a claw-like shape.

Frozen II opens in theaters on November 22nd.

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Does This New ‘Frozen 2’ Teaser Reveal the Next “Let It Go?”

Disney has released a new 60-second teaser for Frozen 2, which offers our first look/listen at a brand new songs from the highly anticipated sequel, along with the full soundtrack listing. The smash-hit of 2013, Disney’s Frozen not only told the fantastic sisterly story of Arendelle’s Anna and Elsa, it introduced the infections and unforgettable song “Let It Go” into the zeitgeist. That song won the Oscar, and the songwriting team of Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez are back for the follow-up, and in this new teaser we get to hear a snippet of the new song “Into the Unknown” similarly sung by Elsa voice actor Idina Menzel. Could this be the next infectious earworm that you’ll be singing along with your kids for the next few years? This is but a short snippet of the full song, but it’s certainly impressive. Whether “Into the Unknown” is the one, you can probably rest assured at least one of the songs from Frozen II is going to be on repeat for the next few years/eternity.

The sequel finds the two sisters reconsidering long-held truths about their past… which may not be true at all. The story will also delve into how Elsa got her powers, and the mystery behind their parents’ disappearance. And lest you think this is a sequel that was rushed out, co-writer/co-director Jennifer Lee spent years developing, scrapping, and reworking the story for Frozen 2 until she hit upon a story worth telling.

Watch the new Frozen 2 teaser below, followed by brief snippets of a few additional songs from the film sung by Kristen Bell and Josh Gad and the full soundtrack listing for the film, which includes end credits tracks performed by Kasey Musgraves, Panic! at the Disco, and Weezer.

1. “All is Found” – performed by Evan Rachel Wood

2. “Some Things Never Change” – performed by Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff

3. “Into the Unknown” – performed by Idina Menzel (featuring Norwegian singer AURORA)

4. “When I Am Older” – performed by Josh Gad

5. “Reindeer(s) are Better than People (Cont.)” – performed by Jonathan Groff

6. “Lost in the Woods” – performed by Jonathan Groff

7. “Show Yourself” – performed by Idina Menzel and Evan Rachel Wood

8. “The Next Right Thing” – performed by Kristen Bell

9. “Into the Unknown” – performed by Panic! At The Disco (end credits)

10. “All is Found” – performed by Kacey Musgraves (end credits)

11. “Lost in the Woods” – performed by Weezer (end credits)

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SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE – In “Frozen 2,” Anna’s positive spirit is reflected in a song she begins in an effort to assuage Olaf’s uncertainty about the ever-evolving world around him. The song, “Some Things Never Change,”—which features Anna, Olaf, Elsa and Kristoff —introduces the idea of change to the story, and despite its title, it’s also a promise that change is on the horizon.



INTO THE UNKNOWN – In “Frozen 2,” Elsa feels that she’s being beckoned by a voice from far away, a calling she can’t ignore showcased in the original song “Into the Unknown.” She learns that answers await her—but she must venture far from home.



WHEN I AM OLDER – When Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf find themselves in the enchanted forest in “Frozen 2,” Olaf faces a series of inexplicable events, illustrated in the song “When I Am Older.” Despite the mystery and dangerous realities coming to life before his eyes, the lovable snowman is convinced that one day, it’ll all make sense.