Miranda teased on Good Morning America that he has spent his time in quarantine working with Disney to create a new animated musical. The untitled project will take place in Colombia, Miranda said.
While the unnamed project marks a new venture into the Disney world of musicals for Miranda, following his work on Moana and Mary Poppins, he's not the only former Disney collaborator to work on the new animated film.
According to The DisInsider, Byron Howard and Jared Bush, two of the filmmakers behind 2015’s Oscar-winning blockbuster Zootopia, are hard at work on their next feature. Tentatively titled Encanto, the report suggests that it concerns “a young girl and her family in Colombia, who all have magical powers, sadly, the young girl has no powers.” Sounds cool to us. Lin-Manuel Miranda will reportedly be writing the songs for the feature, which will have a script by Bush and Charise Castro Smith, with production duties being handled by Clark Spencer (who is now also President of Walt Disney Animation Studios) and Yvett Merino Flores.
Howard let slip years ago that he was working on an original project with Miranda (who worked on Moana, Mary Poppins Returns and whose Hamilton is about to debut on Disney+), and Bush was one of Howard’s key collaborators, working overtime to get Zootopia together after seismic story changes (he also co-directed that feature). Plus, Rich Moore, the other Zootopia director, recently left Disney for Sony Pictures Animation. Bush is an insanely talented, hardworking artistic powerhouse at Disney (he also received sole screenwriting credit on Moana the same year Zootopia was released) and would make a perfect fit to work alongside Howard on this new project.
Also, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been venturing out recently, focusing their animated features on various cultures and locales, including Polynesia (Moana) and Asia (2021’s Raya and the Last Dragon). Colombia makes perfect sense as the setting for a forthcoming movie.
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