The headlines around George Lucas this week focused on his early plans for STAR WARS: EPISODE VII. Lost in the kerfuffle was the reason he spoke to USA Today to begin with: promoting his latest non-STAR WARS project (which they’ll all be from here forward, so breathe easy), STRANGE MAGIC.
You’ll be forgiven if you know very little about the project. The PR push hasn’t been very loud for the CG-animated tale, loosely based on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Dreamworks Animation is distributing the film, which still runs under the Lucasfilm production banner (it’d be really weird if it didn’t). It’s directed by longtime Lucas-collaborator Gary Rydstrom, and written by Lucas, Rydstrom, David Berenbaum and Irene Mecchi. Here’s the trailer, which was released around Christmas:
Your logline, in case you’re as confused as most are on “What the foosh did I just watch?”:
A fairy tale inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and centered around goblin, elf, fairy and imp characters, and their misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
With voicework by Meredith Anne Bull, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Robbie Daymond, Bob Einstein, Llou Johnson, Elijah Kelley, Alfred Molina, Sam Palladio and Maya Rudolph, STRANGE MAGIC hits theaters January 23.
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