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Sotiris wrote:^That's just a load of PR spin. They're too cowardly to ever do that. Disney aims for the broadest audience possible, and they'd never do anything to jeopardize their potential box office earnings, both stateside and abroad.

Sotiris wrote:^That's just a load of PR spin. They're too cowardly to ever do that. Disney aims for the broadest audience possible, and they'd never do anything to jeopardize their potential box office earnings, both stateside and abroad.

unprincess wrote:i don't think its going to be possible for this sequel to please everyone. There's gonna be some group thats gonna hate this movie. Its gonna force Disney to have to be very safe with the direction they take the characters in, especially Elsa (and Hans if he is brought back.) I think the safest thing they can do is create a new female character around the sisters age range who befriends them and leave it at that. Let the fanfic writers fan artists and shippers do what they want with them in their own works.

Frozen 2 comes out next year. Reading about how the sequel came about, it does appear a lot of thought and care went into it as opposed to, “Let’s just do another.” And it will have been six years…

I hope so! I mean, that’s exactly why we were inspired to do it, not because we were asked to. In fact, we were like, “never.” And then we sat down one day and I said, “I thought of this one thing.” And we started talking and we realized there was a whole aspect of the journey left to be told. And we regrounded ourselves in the characters and it’s always what we have to do. And we are building it from inside out again, not from outside in. And that takes longer and it’s very thoughtful and is kind of the reason I love doing it – all of what we are doing and talking and wrestling with as we go?

Will it actually be called Frozen 2? Nothing is just “2” anymore…

[Laughs.] I don’t know. Every day we change our mind. You can laugh the day we finally release the title because you’ll know, “This is the day they finally landed on this side of that.”

Disney's Divinity wrote:I'm much more interested in the possibility of a magical villain she could go up against. Hans in a lot of ways was more Anna's villain. I would like if they made a villain specifically for Elsa to fight. Plus, it would allow lots of excuses for Elsa to use her powers, which would be beautiful to watch.

JeanGreyForever wrote:Still no update on Santino Fontana then? I hope they're hiding his presence in the movie to explain the lack of confirmation of his return.

“Frozen” may have just opened on Broadway, but the Oscar-winning creatives of both the movie and the stage musical aren’t done with each other yet. They’re hard at work on “Frozen 2.”

“We’ve done amazing stuff on ‘Frozen 2,’ and have a couple of songs already that are blowing my mind,” said Jennifer Lee, the screenwriter and director of “Frozen” and its sequel, who also wrote the book for the musical. “We do about six screenings that we hand draw, and so I’m on the second draft, second screening. There’s no shortcut. What we have today hopefully will be 10% of what we have when it opens.”

Speaking at the opening night after-party at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, Lee added that their work on the Disney Theatrical Productions show has crossed over into how they collaborate on “Frozen 2.” “There’s this really fluid thing going on that we didn’t know about in the beginning as we were getting to know each other,” she said. “We learned this wonderful sort of chicken-and-egg back and forth. Even for the film, we’re building it like a musical, where the story and songs are intertwined and matter to each other.”

Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez agreed. “We know the girls a lot better now,” Anderson-Lopez said of Elsa and Anna, the central characters of “Frozen.” “We’ve gone a lot deeper into their heads. We know the parents a lot better.”

The duo just recorded a new song with Kristen Bell last week. But don’t ask for the name of the song, because they can’t tell you. They can’t reveal much at all, in fact — except for one tiny tidbit.

The musical switches out the rock trolls of the first film with a group of sylvan “hidden folk” inspired by Scandinavian folklore. Audiences may not have seen the last of them.

“We’ve thought a lot more about those hidden folk,” Anderson-Lopez said. “That’s all I’m going to say."

Sotiris wrote:I love how anything remotely relevant to Frozen 2 turns into big news and gets headlines everywhere. Kristen just said she finished recording. That's it!

Disney's Divinity wrote:Anyway, I hope everything Lee said about the music they've heard thus far bears out. I imagine the music will be more ingrained within the sequel than in the first. You can see how Lasseter's insistence upon his buddy roadtrip formula weakened the first film because most of the music was stuffed in the first act so that most of the 2nd act could be travel/sight-seeing fodder and the 3rd could be nothing but a chase sequence. With more confidence in the music because of the first film's soundtrack being so warmly received and--hopefully--without Lasseter's poison anywhere near the film (jury's still out on him being fully and completely gone...), the music should be more spread out consequently giving the film a better structure. I really hope they don't screw this up.