Frozen
Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown are in talk of the town to join the voice cast of Disney ’s animated musical movie subsequence , Frozen 2 . assume they sign on , theWestworldandThis Is Usactors will be accompanied by returning cast penis from the firstFrozen , which include Kristen Bell as Princess Anna of Arendelle , Idina Menzel as Arendelle ’s as if by magic - powered nance and Anna ’s sister Elsa , and Josh Gad as the pair ’s enchanted snowman pal Olaf .
exhaust in 2013 , the originalFrozenwas generally urge on by Hans Christian Andersen’sThe Snow Queenand went on to become an enormous success for the Mouse House , grossing $ 1.27 billion at the worldwide box office and earn two Academy Award ( including , Best Animated Feature ) for its efforts . A subsequence has long seemed like a foregone conclusion for those reasons , even as the Mouse House has go about expanding theFrozenbrand to encompass everything fromanimated short spinoffstoa Broadway melodious adaptation . Nevertheless , Frozen 2proper is now moving forward and frame together its representative cast of characters , onward of its release next year .
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Varietyis reporting that Wood and Brown are line up to conjoin theFrozen 2voice cast , though their role are being kept under - wrap for the time being . The pair only just picked up2018 Primetime Emmy nominationsfor their work on the latest seasons ofWestworldandThis Is Us , with Brown landing an additional Emmy nod for his client visual aspect on theBrooklyn Nine - Nineepisode " The Box " . Given their status , it ’s sane to assume the pair’sFrozen 2voice roles will be significant and possibly leading in nature .
Frozendirectors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee are also give for the continuation , with Lee write the screenplay ( like she did on the first movie ) . The latter was recentlypromoted to Chief Creative Officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios , follow longtime Disney / Pixar CCO John Lasseter ’s release at the remainder of the year . Lee also cowrote Disney and Ava DuVernay’sA Wrinkle in Time(which opened in dramatics earlier this yr ) and is expect to remain participating written material and directing for Disney Animation , even after she becomes CCO .
Frozenfever ( no punning intended ) has died down a moment since its peak , but things will no doubt heat up ( apologies again ) once marketing forFrozen 2gets take off . That should happen by either this November or December , when the Disney sequelsRalph Breaks the InternetandMary Poppins Returnshit the scene . Either of those picture seem like perfect vehicle to launch aFrozen 2teaser trailer with and the Mouse House is almost certainly retrieve the same matter . In the interim , it ’s gracious to find out that great talents like Brown and Wood are signing up for the next journeying to Arendelle .
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Source : Variety