Netflix Opens the Door to ‘Spellbound’ in Official Trailer

Prepare to be Spellbound!

Netflix today debuted the official trailer as well as brand-new film stills and key art for the original animated fantasy-adventure Spellbound, produced by Skydance Animation. The action-packed monster rescue, directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek, Shark Tale) arrives on November 22.

“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!” said Jenson.

“Spellbound is about what it is that really makes a family,” the director added. “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.”

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. The voice cast features Rachel Zegler as Ellian, John Lithgow as Bolinar, Jenifer Lewis as Nazara, Nathan Lane as the Oracle of the Moon and Tituss Burgess as the Oracle of the Sun, with Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman as King Solon and Queen Ellsmere, respectively.

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“I can’t think of Ellian without thinking of Rachel Zegler. She just is Ellian.” Jenson shared. “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.”

The film 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. The Netflix Film also features an original score by EGOT-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Glenn Slater (Tangled).