Strange Magic
About “Strange Magic”:
Strange Magic is a 2015 American animated jukebox musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, screenplay written by Rydstrom, David Berenbaum, and Irene Mecchi based on a story written by George Lucas and inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The film stars the voices of Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley, Meredith Anne Bull, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, and Alfred Molina. It follows the leader of the Dark Forest known as the Bog King, who hates the notion of love and orders the destruction of all primroses, a flower used to create love potions. However, he begins to change his mind upon meeting the feisty fairy princess Marianne whose heart was broken by her philandering fiancé Roland. Meanwhile, the elf Sunny seeks to have a love potion made so he may make Marianne's sister Dawn fall in love with him.