The Four Realms in Four Realms are a combination of references to the second act of The Nutcracker ballet and the Nutcracker segments that that appeared in Disney’s 1940 animated film, Fantasia. However, I always fall asleep during the second act. Walt Disney Studios I have seen The Nutcracker five times and don’t remember four realms. From the “Waltz of the Flowers” segment of Disney’s Fantasia.
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That all happens in the first act, and the second act is a series of loosely “international”-themed dances, with regions of the world represented by different kinds of candy or food - chocolate for Spain, candy canes for Russia, etc. In gratitude, the Nutcracker takes Clara on a trip to his kingdom of candy people. The defeat transforms the Nutcracker into his true form: a handsome prince. Clara saves the Nutcracker by hurling her slipper at the Mouse King, killing him. Her adventure begins near midnight on Christmas Eve, when she watches her Christmas gift from Herr Drosselmeyer, a wooden nutcracker, come alive to battle the Mouse King, a fearsome multi-headed rodent. In The Nutcracker ballet, Clara is a young girl celebrating Christmas with her family, and her mysterious godfather, the toymaker Herr Drosselmeyer. She meets a Nutcracker, a Sugar Plum Fairy, a Mouse Prince and Mother Ginger.
While attending a ball thrown by Clara’s godfather, the genius clockwork engineer Drosselmeyer, Clara’s search for the secret of her mother’s last gift, a locked mechanical egg, leads her to discover four secret magical realms where she is a princess. Four Realms is about a young girl named Clara whose well-off London family - her father, older sister and younger brother - is struggling with getting through their first Christmas after the loss of Clara’s mother. Does Four Realms follow the plot of The Nutcracker ballet?īarely. In July 2018, Nutcracker took Mulan’s former spot. 2, but the company has since pushed the movie back more than a year, until March 27, 2020. Disney’s upcoming live-action Mulan remake was scheduled to premiere on Nov. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms review Walt Disney Studios Weren’t we supposed to get a Mulan movie this holiday instead of this? But enough changed that both men share a co-directing credit in the final billing. Hallström was unavailable to direct due to scheduling issues, and planned to oversee post-production. There didn’t seem to be any bad blood over the reshoots.
But almost a year later, in December 2017, Disney announced that Joe Johnston ( Captain America: The First Avenger, The Rocketeer) would oversee a “significant shoot of additional photography” based on new script material written by a new screenwriter, and lasting 32 days. Hallström ( What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Chocolat) wrapped initial production in January of 2017. Faithful! Laurie Sparham/Disney Why does it have two director credits? The movie runs around 99 minutes, which is around the length of a performance of the ballet. It stars Mackenzie Foy as Clara, Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Morgan Freeman as Drosselmeyer, Helen Mirren as Mother Ginger, Jayden Fowora-Knight as the Nutcracker and ballerina Misty Copeland as the Ballerina Princess. Directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is Walt Disney Studios’ big holiday-themed release of the year, based on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker ballet. So The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a real movie? We took down their questions and now provide you with the fruits - sugar plums, specifically - of our research. They were intrigued by the combination of a 126-year-old ballet, stunt casting and the promise of a CGI extravaganza the likes of which only a modern Hollywood fantasy film can provide. They had been struck, some might say dumb, by posters and trailers for Four Realms. As Polygon’s entertainment team geared up for our screening of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - re-reading the Nutcracker story, rewatching the better Fantasia segments - we discovered that many of our co-workers had no idea what The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was all about.
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