The Nutcracker Prince (Live-Action Remake 2020)

The Nutcracker Prince is a 2020 Live-action musical, adventure, fantasy and comedy film, directed by John Faverou and produced by Jon Favreau, Brigham Taylor, combined with some element of real image.

The film is a Remake of the 1990 Warner Bros. animated film with the same name and based in the E.T.A Hoffman' story of The Nutcracker and The Mouse King and the Tchaikovsky's Ballet Adaptation. It is distributed by Walt Disney Company and Dreamworks Pictures.

Summary
Clara's family celebrates Christmas Eve with a big party for their guests. Clara and her brother Fritz eagerly wait for the eccentric Uncle Drosselmeyer to arrive with his special gift. This turns out to be a great automatic toy castle, with soldiers moving and swans swimming in its pit. In addition, it brings to Clara a special gift, a nutcracker, and also tells the story of how the Nutcracker became King of the Dolls.

Cast

 * Abigail Breslin as Clara
 * Alex Wollf as Hans/The Nutcracker
 * Morgan Freeman as Uncle Drosselmeyer
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ferdinand, The Mouseking
 * Kevin Kline as Pantaloon
 * Susan Sarandon as The Mousequeen
 * Emma Thompson as Trudy
 * Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Marie
 * Corey Burton as The King
 * Hattie Morahan as The Queen
 * Amy Adams as Princess Perlipats
 * Sharlto Copley as Dr. Carl Stahlbaum
 * Charlize Theron as Mrs. Ingrid Stahlbaum
 * Scarlett Johansson as Louise
 * Luke Evans as Erik
 * Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Fritz

Supporting Cast

 * Alison Brie as Mrs. Miller
 * Frank Welker as The Rats (vocal effects)
 * Jason Bateman as Guard #1
 * Nate Torrenceas Guard #2

CGI Animation
the same CGI animation was used, as they did in The Jungle Book (2016) and Beauty and the Beast (2017) for the animations of Mouse King, Mouse Queen and the rats.

Differences to the 1990 animated film

 * The full name of The Mouse King is mentioned, since in the animated version, its name was unknown.
 * In the animated film, The Mouse King, it was a bit big, but in the remake, it has an aspect, which gives it a much larger size, almost the size of a Rat, in addition to the color of the King of mice, it goes from being Brown and gray.
 * Hans's hair goes from being black to brown (unlike the 1990 animated version).
 * In the remake, the Pavlova's gender of is feminine, while in the animated version its gender is unknown.
 * In the animated version, the mice were characters of comic relief, while in Remake, they are threatening.