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How Alan Menken and Glenn Slater Crafted the Music of ‘Spellbound’ (EXCLUSIVE)
'Spellbound' songwriters Alan Menken and Glenn Slater break down how they created the songs for Netflix and Skydance's animated musical movie.
In the film, streaming now on Netflix, Rachel Zegler stars as Princess Ellian, a teenager who seeks to break a spell that’s turned her royal parents (Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem) into monsters. “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast” composer Menken was joined by frequent collaborator Glenn Slater(“Tangled”), who served as the project’s lyricist. So she has completely internalized what a Disney heroine looks like and sounds like, but she’s also a brilliant actress, so she was able to take that template and give it her own particular spin, and dig into the specifics of this character and make her feel like a real person.
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