The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a fantasy film that will really make you want to live in a fairy tale!
These are some facts about the movie you should know!
- The movie is directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston.
- It is written by Ashleigh Powell and Tom McCarthy.
- It is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” and Marius Petipa’s The Nutcracker Ballet.
- What a cast! The film stars Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman.
- On March 4, 2016, the project was first announced, and is was stated that Walt Disney Pictures was developing it.
- Filming began in October 2016 in South Kensington and Pinewood Studios in England, and wrapped in late January 2017.
- In December 2017, it was reported that Joe Johnston would helm 32 days of reshoots, scripted by Tom McCarthy, due to Hallström being unavailable. Hallström would still oversee post-production.
- The music was adapted from Tschaikovsky’s Nutcracker by James Newton Howard. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the orchestra, while Lang Lang was the piano soloist.
- Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo contributed the song “Fall on Me” for the film, which premiered on Dancing with the Stars’ “Disney Night” on October 22, 2018.
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is set to be released on November 2, 2018 in 2D and Real D 3D by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is set to be released on November 2, 2018 in 2D and Real D 3D by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
- The movie is 99 minutes long.
- In the United States and Canada, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms will be released alongside Nobody’s Fool and Bohemian Rhapsody, and is projected to gross $20–24 million from 3,766 theaters in its opening weekend.
