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Amy Adams Says Enchanted 2 Is Still Happening - Hopefully
Over ten years after the original was released in theaters, Enchanted 2 is most likely still happening, according to star Amy Adams. Though the sequel is still currently in development limbo, the Academy Award-nominated actress remains hopeful.
A live-action parody of classic Disney animated movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, Disney's Enchanted tells the story of an animated princess named Giselle (voiced and played by Adams) who finds herself transported into a live-action, modern day New York City. While trying to find a way back home to the animated world of Andalasia, Giselle is taken in by a divorce lawyer named Robert (played by Patrick Dempsey) while the overly-affectionate Prince Edward (played by James Marsden) and the evil Queen Narissa (played by Susan Sarandon) attempt to track the princess down. Nominated for three Academy Awards in the Original Song category, Enchanted became a critical and financial success, with talk of a sequel brewing over the past decade. Now, Adams is hopeful that Enchanted 2 may well be happening after all.
When Adams recently appeared on the daytime talk show The Talk, she was asked by co-host Sara Gilbert whether or not Disney was still actively preparing a sequel to Enchanted. The project has been in development for quite some time following the success of the first movie back in 2007, but it's never officially begun production. Adam Shankman has been brought aboard as director, replacing Kevin Lima from the first movie, and several screenwriters have completed drafts of the script, including Jessie Nelson, J. David Stern and David N. Weiss, and Anne Fletcher. And though Adams' response did not confirm anything official during the interview, she noted that she is not only game for a sequel, but hopeful that it will eventually enter into production. She said, "I am absolutely up for that. We’re working on it - so, hopefully.”
Adams was on The Talk to promote her new HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, alongside co-star Patricia Clarkson. Interestingly, despite the fact that Clarkson did not star in Enchanted as well, she did, however, appear in the movie Jumanji, which also concerns characters from a fantasy world being transported into conventional reality through magical means. Based on the trailers for Sharp Objects, magic is the last thing viewers should expect from the HBO series.
Over the past decade, Disney has certainly been no stranger to producing sequels, and lots of them. In fact, this year alone, Disney has already released Incredibles 2, with Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 arriving in November, and Mary Poppins Returns hitting theaters in December - a whole 54 years after the classic original. So, not only is Disney in the business of pumping out sequels, but significant time gaps between movies don't appear to be an issue for them either, meaning that the chances of Enchanted 2 actually happening seem pretty good.
