New ‘Frozen’ short, ‘Frozen Fever’ set for ‘Cinderella’
Fans watching Cinderella will certainly get a treat as the characters from Frozen will be back in the short attached to the new live-action fairy tale.
The seven-minute short, titled Frozen Fever, will have all of the main characters back: Princess Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell), Princess Elsa (Idina Menzel), Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and the snowman Olaf (Josh Gad).
Elsa, weighed down by her royal duties in Frozen, has lightened up so much that she’s throwing Anna a birthday bash.
“It’s another side of Elsa the audience hasn’t seen before and we hadn’t really played with in the original feature,” says Chris Buck, who reunited with Jennifer Lee to direct the short.
The birthday plans go awry when Elsa comes down with a cold on the big day.
“Elsa doesn’t get a cold in the usual way,” says Lee. “She’s special. Surprising things occur that wreak a little havoc.”
“The gang is back together. And literally it’s like we never went away,” says Gad in a USA Today article. “Every day we’re reminded of Frozen in our lives. So it feels like a continuation of a saga that has many parts still untold. It felt like coming home again after a short absence.”
The short features a new song from the husband-and-wife team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won an Oscar for Let it Go – be warned: The new song is catchy.
“If history is any indicator, kids will go nuts,” says Gad.
“We continue this story of these two sisters, who only had each other growing up together,” says Gad. “They are still supporting each other. That’s what this is about.”
Frozen Fever will show in theaters before Disney’s live-action Cinderella, due to hit theaters on March 13.
Check out the Main Movie page on the Dispatch or just read some of the updates on a Frozen sequel here.
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