The Nutcracker Prince (Live-Action Remake 2020)

The Nutcracker Prince is a live action, adventure, fantasy and comedy film from 2020, directed by John Faverou and produced by Jon Favreau, Brigham Taylor, combined with some element of the 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

Reception[]

Production[]

Soundtrack[]

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 Mouse kIng, it goes from being Brown to 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.

Trivia[]

Chiwetel Ejiofor will be playing the lead role of the villain.
Abigail Breslin will be play the role of Clara.
Morgan Freeman returns to his role of Uncle Drosselmeyer, later to the 2018 film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
The Mouse King dies in a similar way, like to his animated version, but a little different.
The Mouse King is gray, unlike the animated version, who originally was brown.
In this remake, The Mouse King is thin, while in the animated version, he is fat.