The Prince and the Knight

The Prince and the Knight would be an American musical fantasy romance hand-drawn animated film directed by Andreas Deja and Stephen Anderson and written by Dan Fogelman and Bill Kelly, while Don Hall would serve as co-director. Loosely based on the children's picture book Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack and Stevie Lewis, the film would star the voices of Tarell Alvin McCraney, Darryl Stephens, Janelle Monáe, Corey Burton, and Alan Tudyk. Monáe would also co-write the songs for the film alongside recurring Disney songwriter/composer Alan Menken, with Menken also providing the score for the film.

Disney would start developing an adaptation of Prince & Knight in early 2022, with Deja and Anderson set to direct the film, with the film marking Deja's directorial debut. Fogelman and Kelly would join as writers in mid-2022, while McCraney and Stephens would join the cast in the lead roles in December 2022. The filmmakers would develop the film as an homage to films from Disney's early fairy tale films. Several animators from The Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh would be brought in to work on the movie. The film would also mark Disney's first time using the "Deep Canvas" software since Treasure Planet (2002), with the software being promeniently used in the film's climax.

The Prince and the Knight would be released on May 16, 2025, and would become a critical and financial success. Critics would call the film "a wonderful love letter to Walt Disney's fairy tale films", and would praise the film's vocal performances, direction, writing, animation (particularly its use of hand-drawn animation), songs, and musical score. The film would earn 996 million dollars at the worldwide box office over a budget of 105 million dollars. The film would be nominated for a GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding Film – Wide Release, as well as for Academy Awards for Best Animated Film, Best Original Song, and Best Original Score.

Synopsis
Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom, lived a prince named Steven who, in spite of having everything he could want to have, longs for something more in his life, but is too worry of what may happen if he dares to change his life. Also in the kingdom, there was a knight name Clarance, who feels that he has everything in his life because he's one of the best knights in the kingdom. However, both of their lives end up crashing when a terrible dragon named Thadeus attacks their kingdom in order to destroy it, capturing the king and queen in the process. As the two, alongside the Captain of the Guards Joan, try to stop Thadeus from destroying the kingdom, the prince and the knight develop a bond that finally opens their eyes on wha they truly want and need in their lives: love.

Voice cast

 * Tarell Alvin McCraney as Steven, a young prince who longs for more in his life, but fears what may happen if he does find it. McCraney would say that the character "longs for change, but at the same time fears it due to how his responsabilities may be affected by". The character would be named after novel writer Steven Corbin.
 * Darryl Stephens as Clarance, a workaholic knight who, being one of the kingdom's best, feels that he has everything he needs in life. Stephens would refer to his character as "the classic sympathetic workaholic".
 * Janelle Monáe as Joan,