Spellbound Trailer and Poster Revealed by Netflix

Netflix has revealed the official Spellbound trailer and poster, which give you a new look at the animated film coming to the streaming service on November 22. The film is rated PG for thematic elements and some action/peril.

Spellbound follows the adventures of Ellian, the tenacious young daughter of the rulers of Lumbria, who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters.

Spellbound Trailer and Poster Revealed by Netflix

Spellbound is directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek) with an original score from EGOT-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Glenn Slater (Tangled).

A Netflix Film from Skydance Animation, Spellbound boasts an all-star voice cast led by Rachel Zegler, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane, and Tituss Burgess, with Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman.

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Spellbound was written by Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin and Julia Miranda and produced by John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Bruce Anderson for Skydance Animation.

“I can’t think of Ellian without thinking of Rachel Zegler. She just IS Ellian. She’s got such a wonderful, charismatic personality, very real and fresh. She’s a great actress and a stunning singer,” said director Vicky Jenson. “When we met and started working with her, she was just down for it, down to play, to try anything.

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“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.”

Jenson continued: “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!

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“Spellbound is about what it is that really makes a family. Like any timeless myth or lasting fairytale, I believe the meaning reaches even further than the specifics of this family’s dynamic.

“It speaks to kids and their parents and the kinds of alienation that can happen between them as well as the steps we have to take toward each other, how we can weather it together, to come through to the other side with better understanding.”

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Spellbound trailer and poster