{"id":201186,"date":"2025-10-09T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201186\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:58:07","slug":"cynthia-erivo-to-star-in-bad-fairies-animated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201186\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo to Star in Bad Fairies Animated Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cynthia-erivo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cynthia-erivo_1\" data-tag=\"cynthia-erivo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> has been tapped to be the lead voice for Bad Fairies, an animated feature from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn making the announcement Thursday, Warners also set a May 21, 2027 release date for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFairies is being directed by Megan Nicole Dong, an animation writer and story artist who created the Netflix series Centaurworld. It is co-directed by Olivier Staphylas, who worked on movies such as Puss in Boots and Wish Dragon. Fairies has an original screenplay by Deborah Frances-White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTony Award\u2013winning duo Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (Six: The Musical) are writing original songs for the feature, with multiple Grammy-nominated Isabella \u201cMachine\u201d Summers, of Florence + The Machine, composing the score and contributing to the songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe musical comedy follows a \u201cdelightfully subversive gang of fairies as they shake up their magical world,\u201d per Warners\u2019 announcement Thursday. Erivo will voice Jayne Staplegun, a trailblazing fairy whose defiant streak sparks a rebellion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s creative team also includes producer Carolyn Soper, editor Sim Evan-Jones, cinematographer James C.J. Williams, character designer Uwe Heidsch\u00f6tter, and heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProduction is currently underway in London, with DNEG Animation serving as digital partner. Bad Fairies\u00a0will be the first feature released under the first-look deal between Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tErivo, a three-time Academy Award\u2013nominated and Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award\u2013winning actress, next hits the big-screen reprising her role of Elphaba in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wicked-for-good\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-for-good_1\" data-tag=\"wicked-for-good\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>, which will be released Nov. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo has been tapped to be the lead voice for Bad Fairies, an animated feature from Warner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,125657,134,344,125658],"class_list":["post-201186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-wicked-for-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}