Before he sold off Lucasfilm for over $4 billion, George Lucas had long since been working on the animation Strange Magic, which is now finally surfacing. Based on an idea from the Star Wars creator, the fairy tale musical, inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, follows a “colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.”
Directed by Gary Rydstrom (behind the Pixar shorts Lifted and Toy Story‘s Hawaiian Vacation), the first trailer has now dropped, which certainly sways heavily on the kiddie side, but hopefully it has appeal beyond that. Featuring voice work by Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, Alfred Molina, Elijah Kelley, Bob Einstein, Peter Stormare and Meredith Anne Bull, check out the trailer below via Yahoo.
Strange Magic opens on January 23rd.