Disney reaches a new milestone with “Encanto”, the studio’s first feature-length animated musical set in Latin America (watch the new trailer below). Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Vivo”) contributing eight songs that help explore the rich cultural diversity of Colombia through the magical Madrigal family and their enchanted village. They all possess superpowers, except Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz from “In the Heights”), whose quirky ordinariness makes her feel like an outsider.
The idea started percolating well before directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush finished their Oscar-winning “Zootopia.” They both decided on a musical follow-up, especially after Bush told Howard how much he enjoyed working on “Moana” with Miranda. “It seemed like this natural convergence and in talking to Lin, he [told us] how he always wanted to do a movie about Latin America with Disney animation,” said Howard, whose previous musical experience was directing “Tangled.”
The idea of a large extended Latin American family with...
The idea started percolating well before directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush finished their Oscar-winning “Zootopia.” They both decided on a musical follow-up, especially after Bush told Howard how much he enjoyed working on “Moana” with Miranda. “It seemed like this natural convergence and in talking to Lin, he [told us] how he always wanted to do a movie about Latin America with Disney animation,” said Howard, whose previous musical experience was directing “Tangled.”
The idea of a large extended Latin American family with...
- 9/29/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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