loading . . . Walt Disney Animation Studios Screens First 20 Minutes Of “Hexed” To Audiences At The Annecy Film… # **Walt Disney Animation Studios Screens First 20 Minutes Of “Hexed” To Audiences At The Annecy Film Festival.**
Walt Disney Animation Studios came to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week with a magic surprise by screening the first 20 minutes of “Hexed” to audiences.
Here’s a description of what happen via Laughing Place:
* The film opens 15 years before the main events, where a one-year-old Billie discovers magic within her and accidentally tears open a portal to another realm. A ridiculously cute rough-animation pass of baby Billie floating awake and delighting in the portal drew big laughs. Alarmed, Alice gives her daughter a bracelet framed as “protection,” but it secretly caps Billie’s magic so she can never open another portal. That tension between limitation and potential becomes the spine of their relationship.
* The rest of the screening featured scenes of the first trailer with Alice grinds away at the most boring job in the most boring town (the company motto, glimpsed in concept art, reads "Think Inside the Box”), while Billie chafes against school uniforms and rules she didn’t choose. After getting hauled into the principal’s office over a liberated school mascot (a real owl in a cage), Billie snatches his laptop and bolts for the bathroom to destroy the evidence, only for her bracelet to snag and snap on a hook, sending her powers haywire and dousing the principal in purple goo.
* Spooked, Alice prepares to skip town, prying up floorboards to retrieve stashed magical artifacts, including a spellbook. As she packs, a menacing crow-shaped shadow turns out to be just a pigeon. Or was it? Billie, meanwhile, paces a purple bedroom cluttered with bespoke decor (including Aladdin’s magic carpet), experiments with her own magic, and opens a portal of her own, leading into a wooden hall lined with witchy ephemera and a mural depicting witches persecuted by settlers before retreating into the woods and their own realm.
* There, she’s met by a magical book named Elias Quire (Stephen Fry) and an enchanted quill (Tracey Ullman), who put her through a wry, BuzzFeed-style questionnaire, riffing on whether she’s ever been persecuted, drowned, or burned at the stake, before admitting her into Hexe, a safe haven for witches
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