Oh, how strange a place to be. More than 14 years since Enchanted premiered, the live-action musical movie will return for a sequel titled Disenchanted.
“Working again with Disney has been like coming home,” director Adam Shankman said in a press release in May 2021. “With Amy [Adams] and this extraordinary cast, Alan [Menken] and Stephen [Schwartz]’s mind blowing new score, and Barry [Josephson] and Disney’s support, I just hope to bring magic and joy to audiences around the world.”
Disney confirmed that Disenchanted will be released in 2022 and will be available to stream on Disney+. Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Idina Menzel will all reprise their roles in the sequel.
The 2007 romantic comedy explored Giselle (Adams), a princess who found herself far from her fairy tale world of Andalasia when she is banished to New York City.
According to Disney, Disenchanted will be set “15 years later, Giselle moves to the suburb of Monroeville with Robert and their teenage daughter Morgan, where she must juggle the challenges that come with a new home and discover what happily ever after truly means to her and her new family.”
Dempsey, who plays the love interest for Adams’ character, spoke about how valuable the sequel would be.
“Every year they were like, ‘We’re going to do this. It’s going to get done,’ but then no one could agree on the script,” he explained in an interview with Variety in April 2021. “It’s such an important film for them and it’s a satire. It’s not a typical Disney movie.”
The Bridget Jones’s Baby actor joked that even though Enchanted and Disenchanted are “kind of off-brand a little bit” for Disney, he still believes there is an important story to tell.
“Yet we give honor to all of those Disney movies that have come before and they finally now have figured it out. And we’re old enough, so it’s, like, a midlife crisis movie,” Dempsey said.
For the Grey’s Anatomy alum, getting to reunite with the original cast members was a very special experience.
“To work with everybody again after 14 years is just really exciting,” Dempsey added at the time.
Producer Barry Josephson also revealed how meaningful it was to revisit the Enchanted universe.
“I guess dreams do come true … producing Enchanted was the most rewarding film experience I’ve ever had,” Josephson said in the May 2021 press release.
Scroll down for all the details to know so far about Disenchanted:
In April 2022, Adams and Dempsey were photographed reprising their iconic roles while filming new scenes between Giselle and Robert in New York City. Steve Sands/NewYorkNewswire/Bauer-Griffin/Shutterstock
Disenchanted will be available to stream on Disney+ on Thursday, November 24, 2022. Moviestore/Shutterstock
The next chapter of Enchanted will include new songs from Menken and Schwartz. The duo originally worked together on the 2007 film and received three Academy Award nominations. Dempsey previously revealed that he would have some new challenges to tackle in the sequel. “I will be singing for the first time,” Dempsey told Variety in April 2021, noting he will also be dancing in the film. “I’ve never ever sung publicly — for a reason. So, bear with me.” The Maine native said that he hopes fans will "embrace" his musical numbers because of the hard work that went into his scenes. “The lyrics are really fun. The numbers have really great choreography. And the premise is going to be interesting,” he added at the time. Barry Wetcher/Disney Enterprises/Kobal/Shutterstock
Disenchanted will be shot on location in Ireland, specifically in Wicklow and the areas around it. The village of Enniskerry has now become the suburb of Monroeville. During filming, Dempsey has shared glimpses of his time in Ireland with fans on social media. "I love being in Ireland and I’m having so much fun working on this film #disenchanted," the actor wrote alongside a selfie via Instagram in May 2021. Barry Wetcher/Disney Enterprises/Kobal/Shutterstock
Disney announced that Maya Rudolph would appear in the sequel as a "new adversary" to Giselle. Kolton Stewart, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays and Oscar Nunez have also joined the cast for Disenchanted. Shutterstock (3)
"@adamshankman and @amyadams almost gave me a heart attack on zoom... and i’ve never been more grateful ❤️," newcomer Gabriella Baldacchino captioned a photo from set via Instagram in May 2021. The Walt Disney Instagram account shared a sweet video of Baldacchino finding out that she got the role of Robert Philip’s now-grown daughter, Morgan. Courtesy of Gabriella Baldacchino/Instagram
Shankman confirmed via Instagram in August 2021 that filming had wrapped on the sequel, and he even teased a release date. The director captioned a snap with Adams, “Myself and Giselle…errrr….@amyadams would just like to say: And that’s a wrap. #Disenchanted Coming to you in #2022 @disney @disneyplus @disneystudios.” Courtesy Adam Shankman/Instagram
“James Marsden and I have remained friends through the years and we just have a blast," Menzel exclusively told Us Weekly in August 2021, of her onscreen love interest. “We have a song together and we get to be really silly and fun.” The Broadway star will also have her own solo in the sequel. “Well, it's Stephen Schwartz, who's like my fairy godmother when it comes to musicals. For anyone who doesn’t know out there, he wrote Wicked,” she said of the song. “He wrote it with Alan Menken and it's this incredible song and then a really important integral moment in the story. And I feel really lucky for them to have written something like this for me.” Moviestore/Shutterstock
“He had a blast! He was so happy. He tap danced, I think. And he was great,” Menzel told Us in August 2021 of Dempsey’s musical number in Disenchanted. “He was just a song and dance man, you know. That's what was so much fun. It really hearkens back to an old fashion kind of movie musical for everyone.” Disney Enterprises/Kobal/Shutterstock
“There’s a lot more singing and a lot more dancing — which was humbling,” Adams said about the sequel on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in September 2021. Adams admitted that it’s been a long time since she was in a musical, and filming Disenchanted made her realize that her body doesn’t move the same way anymore. “The last time I really danced as much as I’m required to dance in this, I was, like, in my 20s. And now I’m not in my 20s. It feels different in your 40s,” she laughed. “In my heart I look like I’m in my 20s when I’m dancing and then I would watch playback and be like, ‘Whoa, that’s not the same.’” Jamie McCarthy/NBC
Like Adams, Marsden was excited to reprise his role as Prince Edward. However, getting back on that royal horse wasn't as easy as he thought it would be. “I have never felt older," the Notebook actor joked to Entertainment Tonight in September 2021. "Fifteen years is not the sort of time frame you want to wait for the sequel of your movie where you play a Disney prince [to come out]. You go back in and you just got a belly and three chins." Still, getting a chance to revisit the magical world of Enchanted all these years later “was fun," the Dead to Me star told ET, adding, "I think we made something special. I hope people will dig it." Moviestore/Shutterstock
Adams and Rudolph scowl at one another in a first look at the original movie. Courtesy of Disney+
“This is like the meat and potatoes of character actors, like, you want to be the evil villain in a Disney movie,” Rudolph said of her role in Disenchanted during a June 2022 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “I’m [basically] doing drag and it was so much fun. I had long nails and I got to be nasty and I got to sing and dance.” Lloyd Bishop/NBC
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