Wish administrators problem Disney followers to seek out iconic character hidden in new movie

Dec 02, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Wish administrators problem Disney followers to seek out iconic character hidden in new movie

The newest star-studded animated flick from Disney, Wish, has a variety of sensational easter eggs and cameos because it was specifically chosen to mark the studios’ a centesimal anniversary.

While followers have picked up most of the references, from Fairy Godmother’s cloak to an iconic piece of Frozen dialogue being casually uttered, the administrators challenged them to discover a purposefully hard-to-spot cameo.

While telling Daily Express about his favorite easter eggs within the movie at Wish’s UK premiere, Chris Buck declared: “There’s one that I challenge the fans to find. [The animators] put it in there for me because I was supervising animator on Pocahontas.

“Grandmother Willow is in one of the forest scenes… in the back… but she’s somewhere in there.

“Good luck!” he teased with a cheeky smile.

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His co-director, Fawn Veerasunthorn, was a bit extra open about her favorite Disney easter egg embedded within the new authentic fairytale.

“The film opens with the logo for Walt Disney Productions and we took that from Snow White,” she mentioned referencing the primary ever animated characteristic to return from the studio in 1937.

Fawn defined: “It was very special to us to open a new original story with the storybook, with that tradition that Disney has doing.

“With the style of watercolour illustration combined with the CG technique, you’re able to walk right into that storybook like we were never able to do before.”

The movie’s author and government producer, Jennifer Lee, was a bit extra secretive about her favorite easter egg, telling Daily Express: “I don’t want to spoil it but there’s one at the very very end after the credits finish rolling. I want people to know it’s there, all the way at the very end.”

She additionally defined that the thought behind the unique story got here from Disney’s historical past with needs: “We really wanted to pay homage to the Disney fairytale but we wanted it to be original.

“We didn’t know what we wanted it to be so we started talking about the power of wishing and wishing in the Disney legacy… wishes they drive our purpose.

“They matter and the important thing is people daring to fulfill those wishes themselves.”

While the Frozen director couldn’t affirm it, Jennifer did admit she “likes to think” that the animated star within the movie is “the star all of our Disney characters wish on”.

Wish’s main star, Ariana DeBose, additionally made an look in a cold Leicester Square, braving the chilly in a jaw-dropping robe as she danced greater than walked down the crimson carpet.

Clips of the West Side Story actress within the recording sales space for Wish have gone viral because the Hollywood star is seemingly all the time dancing in some respect, with a few of her strikes even making it into the ultimate animation.

She gushed: “I love to dance. I speak dance better than I speak English so the fact that Asha has that within her is really cool.”

Wish is at present in cinemas.