How did this song come together?ĪNDERSON-LOPEZ: One of the great discoveries, with the story team, with Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, was that we could put this sense of restlessness in Elsa that was pulling her to her destiny, and dramatize it through this voice. It has air and mystery in it.ĭEADLINE: “Into the Unknown” is a pretty spectacular piece, in which Elsa grapples which the voice from the North that’s been summoning her. We loved that the song, and her voice, is like mist creeping in over the fjord. She needed to have something that could sound a little bit like Idina, a little bit like Kristen, a little bit different than them both, and she had this wonderful warmth to her voice. What was it like seeing her bring the lullaby to life?ĪNDERSON-LOPEZ: We had written it before Evan was cast, but was a key factor in casting Evan. So, this lullaby is all they have left of her, these little hints of the past.ĭEADLINE: Wood entered the world of Frozen with the sequel. She later passes on she’s not able to be there when they grow up. LOPEZ: It’s a lullaby on one level, but it’s also, in code, everything that the mother needs to tell them from the past. That was really to try and help us enter this more mysterious, mystical, darker tone, and set the roadmap for the entire movie.
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It involves our heroes, and puts them on this journey.ĭEADLINE: Which song featured in the sequel did you write first?ĪNDERSON-LOPEZ: The first song we wrote was “All Is Found,” the lullaby that’s sung by Evan Rachel Wood. There’s also mysteries and things in the past that are not alright, not all settled, and the past calls out to be corrected. It’s a family that’s together, and is grateful and happy and loves one another, but there’s feelings within each character that have to come out, the way that all feelings do. The end of Frozen was almost like they graduated college now in Frozen 2, they’re in the real world, and everyone needs to find where they belong. LOPEZ: One of the quotes that Jen and Chris said early on was, “The two most important days of your life are the day you’re born, and the day you find out why.” That was so inspiring to us, as a lens through which to look at the characters and the story. A glacier really does feel like something ancient and powerful.ĭEADLINE: What themes you were thinking about, as you wrote Frozen 2’s original songs?
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You can understand why the people of Norway not only came up with these epic tales, but the belief that there are trolls in the forest, because those forests really do feel alive. It was a lot of fun.ĪNDERSON-LOPEZ: And the Norwegian forests really do feel like their own character. It was so cool to see the glaciers and all that stuff. Then, we went to Iceland, which was a whole other landscape. LOPEZ: In Norway, we went to some of the cities and port towns in the forest. I think they went much deeper…We were doing a family trip they were really on a research trip.ĭEADLINE: Where exactly did your journey take you? What did you take away from it? Were you there with them? Walt Disney StudiosĪNDERSON-LOPEZ: We weren’t on that trip we went on a trip a few months before, and came back with all these pictures from Iceland and Norway. Some of the reviews have called it that, so I’m really happy.ĭEADLINE: The Frozen 2 filmmakers embarked on a research trip to Iceland, Norway and Finland after the film was green lit. I’m a big Star Wars geek, and I was just hoping, when they first called us, that this wouldn’t be some second-rate sequel, but more like the Empire Strikes Back of Frozen. But clearly, Frozen 2 was taking you both into new territory. Below, the pair discuss the process of doing so, in the writing of seven all-new original songs, and their “six-month odyssey” refining climactic showstopper, “Show Yourself.”ĭEADLINE: Both Frozen films have been bold in the depth, darkness and maturity of the stories they’re telling.
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Reteaming on the sequel with directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and producer Peter Del Vecho, the Frozen songwriters aimed with this new film not to replicate the original, in all its magic, but to mature it, forcing the franchise’s characters to confront more grown-up questions. Summoned to the North by a mysterious voice, Elsa travels to an enchanted forest-alongside Anna, ice harvester Kristoff, increasingly self-aware snowman Olaf and reindeer Sven-in order to discover the origins of her wintry, magical powers, and thereby save her kingdom. Set three years after the events of the first film, Frozen 2 picks up with Arendelle’s royal sisters, Elsa and Anna, as they embark on a journey beyond the borders of their kingdom. CAS Awards: 'Joker', 'Frozen 2', 'Thrones' & 'Fleabag' Among Cinema Audio Society Nominees Walt Disney Studios