It’s been some time since we’ve been privy to any news regarding Disney’s The Nutcracker And The Four Realms. In fact, it was mid-December 2017 we had an opulent teaser trailer land on our doorsteps, finally, Disney has seen fit to release the first full-length addition alongside a whole host of new images.
Disney’s live-action feature is an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker about a young girl who finds a Nutcracker doll among the family’s gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it.
The film is directed by A Dog’s Purpose and Chocolat’s Lasse Hallström from a screenplay by Ashleigh Powell. The film stars Mackenzie Foy as Clara, Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Eugenio Derbez as the Flower Realm King, Miranda Hart as Drew Drop Fairy, Jack Whitehall as Harlequin, Misty Copeland as The Ballerina, Morgan Freeman as Drosselmeyer, and Helen Mirren as Mother Ginger.
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The film hits UK cinemas October 26th, 2018. Here’s the new trailer:
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Official Synopsis
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.