New ‘Spellbound’ Trailer Introduces a Magical Princess on Her Own Rescue Mission

Today, Netflix offered audiences a first glimpse of the enchanting world of Spellbound, the new fairy tale family comedy from Skydance Animation (Luck) and Shrek director Vicky Jenson. The movie arrives November 22.

The official teaser trailer dropped with alongside a new interview with Jenson (Shark Tale, Shreak), and voice star Rachel Zegler (West Side Story [2021], The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) on Tudum, the streamer’s fan-focused blog.

Per the film’s synopsis, Spellbound follows the adventures of Ellian (Zegler), 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 (voiced by Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman) into monsters.

“If we start with the familiar — the kingdom, a princess, a king, a queen, and a spell — we could use that to express the story of this family,” Jenson tells Tudum about the foundations of this wholly original tale. “For me, the story is even more universal than the specifics of this family dynamic. For me, it speaks to kids and their parents, to the kind of alienation that can happen as we grow up, and the steps we have to make towards each other to weather it together and come through the other side with better understanding.”

The royal family trio of Zegler, Kidman and Bardem (who provided his own monster noises in addition to kingly dialog) are joined in the film by John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Tituss Burgess and Nathan Lane. Spellbound features an original score from EGOT-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Glenn Slater (Tangled). The film is directed by Jenson,  written by Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin and Julia Miranda and produced by John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and  Bruce Anderson for Skydance Animation.